U, Black Maybe

Can't come around
 They gon' wanna bring you down
 No one knows just what's inside
 Doing dope and doing time
 Why they messing with your mind
 Black maybe...
 I heard a white man's yes
 Is a black maybe
 I was delivered in this world
 As a crack baby
 Hard for me to pay attention
 And I act crazy
 Gotta get over from the tip
 I watch the fat lady sing a song
 On how we guerillas in warfare
 And I'm the kingest kong
 They say we dreamin wrong
 Them same strips that them older cats lingered on
 Now the walgreens is gone
 Hope is killed fiends are born
 We leanin on a wall that ain't that ain't stable
 Its hard to turn on the hood that made you
 To leave We afraid to the same streets that raised you
 Can aid you. What other black births came suit
 the rage up in harlem and the southside
 Brothers is starving with there mouth wide open
 Floating across state got the workout plans so they can move weight
 The fate of the black man, woman, and child maybe
 Can't come around
 They gon' wanna bring you down
 No one knows just what's inside
 Doing dope and doing time
 Why they messing with your mind
 Black maybe...
 Can't come around
 They gon' wanna bring you down
 No one knows just what's inside
 Doing dope and doing time
 Why they messing with your mind
 Black maybe...
 He had game since he used to hoop at chattum
 Neither the ghetto nor defenders could trap him
 The stones had his back and they'd pat him
 He was living a life they couldn't fathom
 Colleges getting at him with all type of scholarships
 Even if he went they knew he'd leave college quick
 For the pros the one from the hood that was chose
 The black rose that grew in the jungle
 But humble stud still had rumble in his blood
 Women all around giving him trouble love
 You know the love when you up they down
 Cause you wrap a ball they round
 Your win is their crown
 Dudes in the circle he known for years
 Shared beers and cheers but chose different careers
 when paper and fame came they ain't know how to react
 Them same studs shot him in the back
 Now that's black... maybe
 Can't come around
 They gon' wanna bring you down
 No one knows just what's inside
 Doing dope and doing time
 Why they messing with your mind
 Black maybe...
 Can't come around
 They gon' wanna bring you down
 No one knows just what's inside
 Doing dope and doing time
 Why they messing with your mind
 Black maybe...
 When we talk about black maybe
 We talk about situations
 Of people of color and because you are that color
 You endure obstacles and opposition
 And not all the time from... from other nationalities
 Sometimes it come from your own kind
 Or maybe even your own mind
 You get judged.you get laughed at.you get looked at wrong
 You get sighted for not being strong
 The struggle of just being you
 The struggle of just being us.black maybe
 black maybe...
 Can't come around
 They gon' wanna bring you down
 No one knows just what's inside
 Doing dope and doing time
 Why they messing with your mind
 Black maybe...