Black Privilege 4 (feat. BBass)

We shall overcome
 We will pick up the pieces
 We've always been so strong
 We can build empires with our will
 And I will climb so high
 And the people will rise once again
 It's in my DNA
 It's my privilege yea
 I Gaze at the horizon see the sun rising
 With an idea that sparked a barrel full of gun powder
 Been bashed and laughed at bad mouthed and assed out
 Crashing out on a stranger's couch passed out
 I never tapped out got myself a laptop
 Treat it like a trap house and make sure that the track hot
 Always had to fend for myself investing in myself
 I refuse to put the blame on anybody else
 Was told I needed hits was told my numbers too low
 Was told I was too lyrical and
 I needed some new clothes
 Was told nobody knows you
 You need some more publicity
 Get some tats, dye ya hair
 Make your image more interesting
 Follow fads, matter fact, take ya pride and swallow that
 That's where you wrong
 I don't show my ass for follow backs
 Then it hit me like a ton of bricks up in my gut
 They banking on the fact we thinking we not good enough
 We shall overcome
 We will pick up the pieces
 We've always been so strong
 We can build empires with our will
 And I will climb so high
 And the people will rise once again
 It's in my DNA
 It's my privilege yea
 We cried a desert of tears enough to fill up all the Great Lakes
 And made us sing amazing grace so they can save face
 Endangered like honey bees we the worlds melaninators
 My soul stuck inside a Paisley Park elevator
 This ain't for the charts, travel to the uncharted
 We bombarded tackling obstacles unguarded
 Bout to finish what I done started
 Mix some black magic with
 Some mutant powers to become marvels
 And from a spark all things are possible
 No weapons that's formed against us shall prosper
 And no longer shall slander against our name stick
 Left our baggage on that boat and we abandoned ship
 Game face like everyday's a championship
 And take flight without thinking of a landing strip
 From a seed grows trees like Malcom by any means
 Word to Combat Jack we gon' dreams those dreams
 We shall overcome
 We will pick up the pieces
 We've always been so strong
 We can build empires with our will
 And I will climb so high
 And the people will rise once again
 It's in my DNA
 It's my privilege yea
 Know your place
 Know your worth
 It was written
 With blood
 In the dirt
 That you are
 A child of kings (yea)
 Every time they tell you no
 You have to take a swing (yea)
 I am living proof
 Descendant of slaves
 They try to tell me no and make me behave
 We can't help but lift our voice and sing
 (lift every voice and sing)
 We found our power
 And the joy that it brings