Chapter 9: Jim Crow - Sho Baraka

I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place

Asking the Lord for amazing grace

I see the masses wanna change me

I’m waiting for someone to save me until then, until then

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence (hello)

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence

Yeah, I am the invisible man though I have a soul I am from an invisible land

They gave me a slave pen for my freedom of speech

Yeah I’m tryin' to leave the island but swimming through bleach

Come on son, why you always ruin the mood

Race talks happen every time you enter the room

Cuz there’s ignorance in the masses

Too many people think racism is past tense

We fight for blackness but we don’t know what black is

I know it ain’t the zero sum of white man

They wanna know how to reach the hood like there’s magic

Like we’re all the same, huh like we’re not dynamic

Hollywood wants to pimp us to get dough

Exploit us but give us money somebody say ho

Yeah let’s thank those movies and them TV shows

Be a token or a player, Uncle Tom row

Or be a magic negro until the day I’m gone

Hope the white man reach his goal but never reach my own

Or an oxed male, even a coon

A young man who loves ignorance praisin' his doom, until then

I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place

Asking the Lord for amazing grace

I see the masses wanna change me

I’m waiting for someone to save me until then, until then

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence (hello)

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence

Say hello to the great cultural brain wash

Washin' my brain from some of the things that race taught

Miseducate, colonize, divide

Teach beauty is straight hair and the bluest of eyes

And because of lies I’m debating five percenters

How the mid-east movement gon' be a white man’s religion

How the privileged man say it’s time to move forward

And say the game’s fair when he monopolize the board

And corporate greed just manipulates the poor

Outside the hood I don’t see liquor stores

I know God is sovereign and I should pray about it

But a man won’t stop it if it increases his profits

And most ain’t realistic with the flow

They make music for the streets but I don’t see 'em at the show

So instead of truth they’d rather be duped

I guess they want me to make more songs for youth groups, until then…

I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place

Asking the Lord for amazing grace

I see the masses wanna change me

I’m waiting for someone to save me until then, until then

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence (hello)

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence

Yeah I got a double consciousness but I’m still in touch

Cops got my hands in the air so I ain’t feelin' much

Lookin' for protection all I can see is tyrants

I’m fightin' them coons and thugs racists and dyin' honors

That lady you call ho, that’s my lover

That woman you call b*tch, that’s my mother

Them boys that you killed, them my brothers

Send the ship to the island we can rescue some others

Did they fight for civil rights so we could sit on gold

I can’t walk in your shoes, you keep sellin' your soul

No, ain’t much Booker T when you look at me

But a whole lot of the boys makin' noise until then

I feel entrapped in a crazy place

Asking the Lord for amazing grace

I see the masses wanna change me

I’m waiting for someone to save me until then, until then

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence (hello)

I guess I’m stuck here on n*gga island

Yeah, where n*ggas be wylin

Yeah, and color is violence

Yeah, moment of silence

Hey here we are, put on a show

Dance a jig, go Jim Crow

Hey here we are, put on a show

Dance a jig, go monkey go

Hey here we are, put on a show

Dance a jig, go Jim Crow

Go Jim Crow, say go Jim Crow

Go Jim Crow, say go monkey go

Yeah it’s what you want me to do right?

It’s what you want me to do right?

Are you entertained?

Are you entertained?