[ Featuring DKOMX ]
Between the world and me
It's a whole 'nother world I see
And I'm seein' it was made for me
Where they aim for me
So life it ain't a game to me
Every man ain't what he claim to be
Between the world and me
It's a whole 'nother world I see
I think it's time for the world to see
It ain't the same for me
It's a shame but the change I see
Is the change that I aim to be
Between the world and me
Boyz in the hood seein' dead bodies
Cold world, we need Coates, that's on Ta-Nehisi
Book of James, present day, this is that man
Book of Eli, this a message to the Black man
Young and old, irregardless to your age range
'Cause they treat my neighborhood like the gun range
So for your daddy and your sons too
This is Sun Tzu to get through
Them dark valleys on them dark days and dark nights
When just because you dark, now you fightin' for your life
It's real in the field, but it's been that
Since them cotton pickin' days and them bent backs
Now it's time to buy the block like Nip did it
Acrobatic real estate, gon' and flip wit' it
It's on some Marcus, Elijah and that Huey P
I need my people livin' free, and that's on me
Rockin size 7 11s pulled up at 7 11 we only stopped for a second my homie gone now
Dark hair brown eyes knock him lights out didn't even ask his mom for the night out
But me and Jackie always made some bad decisions
I told his mom what had happened she grabbed a tissue
It broke her spirit she couldn't listen it hard to hear
That your son died for holding skittles It's hard seeing your son
Change become different
Our future what we configure
When we consider the bigger picture of grabbing pistols
In the mirror, just to make some distance
From our mentor
We can make better but it's been worse
I can see the image of Howard students running through oppositions like Ray Lewis
My people took what they gave them
Took the chains and made them to cages
I took pain and wrote it on pages
