Another classic from my first album
dance
hiphop
soul
rap
hot
groove
father
positive
tupac
kanye
change
racism
Story behind the song
The continual struggle between the races... when will it end
Lyrics
[We need to erase this racism
We need to erase this racism
Replace this stereotypical, judgmental nation
With a color-blind society
We need to erase this racism
We need to erase this racism
Replace this stereotypical, judgmental nation
With a color-blind society
Come on now let’s try it baby]
Let’s try and increase these black and white relationships
But be patient wit
This national flaw
Desegregation should be a law
We need to live together if we ever gonna get along together
I live 20 minutes outside of the black-filled city of Hartford CT
See me in my SUV in SW, surrounded by white people
Warning! Warning!
It is absolutely necessary that you abide by making a try
To end this endless nonsense
It should be common sense
But the past propels the future hence
Mankind still standin still
Lookin behind to when he had nil
Even though before him rolls gold hills
Still, progress is slow
But don’t ya know
This stop sign has got to go
This movement is going full speed
All we got to do is try and we’ll succeed
These bigots are hungry
But don’t feed em the anger that they phene
Do you understand what I mean?
Yeah, I know you do
We can be a team
I can lean on you
Yo, you can lean on me
If you need help, I’m kind, just drop a line
For you, human kind, I would put my life on the line
Can ya feel it, can ya feel it
Please tell it
Spread the word
Tell em what you heard
Alert the masses about the dirt on America’s white collared shirt
So we can stop the hurt
[We need to erase this racism
We need to erase this racism
Replace this stereotypical, judgmental nation
With a color-blind society
We need to erase this racism
We need to erase this racism
Replace this stereotypical, judgmental nation
With a color-blind society
Come on now let’s try it baby]
So many blacks hate whites
And so many whites hate blacks
It’s too many to me
Too many to me
And all of this prejudice creates cracks in our cement foundation
All of these scattered pieces that we call our nation
But I’m still blazin
This situation is so amazing
It’s a radical fall, racial walls I’m still facin
We’re all enclosed in a ball
But we’re still chasin, one another
I’m cravin the answer to this relation
Among skin color and desegregation
And all this that we’re wastin
Shared time cannot be replaced and
I try to break down this hesitation
Emancipation Proclamation
We’re still waitin
The vivid view of the future’s fadin
Believe it even wit no motivation
Stop hesitatin, stop hatin, stop lovin Satin
The American dream, I’m chasin
America’s heart, I’m inflatin
We’ve got to better the communication
Work together on this collaboration
The only thing that can hold us down is gravitation
A true view that includes you, I’m creatin
I’m buildin us up like creatine
Let’s build upon the basement
If you give me your hand, I’ll be aid and abating
I’m educatin
My students I’ll see you at graduation
When you receive your certification for continuation of gratification
And mental penetration
We’ll be facin celebration
No more pacin
We’re tastin the treat
Received by defeatin the feat
On progress, I’m concentratin
Negativity is spent
It may be swelterin
But yo this is our melting pot, so let’s enter in
[We need to erase this racism
We need to erase this racism
Replace this stereotypical, judgmental nation
With a color-blind society
We need to erase this racism
We need to erase this racism
Replace this stereotypical, judgmental nation
With a color-blind society
Come on now let’s try it baby]
I love my African Americans
I hold em dear like kin
Never call em an N, I, double G, A
Never play the racism game
I take shame for anyone who does
If you wanna know why, it’s because
We made a big mistake
My sorry may be late
But I hope it still will suffice to suffocate the hate
Later, I pray mankind will be much greater