Black America: Wake the Hell Up! by mick4himself Look I have something that needs to be addressed/ And hopefully when I’m done you’ll be blessed/ By the truth I have confessed/ And had to get off my chest/ Why must we all act like ignorant people-Mexicans/ Africans/ Asians/ Caucasians/ Hell- all colors, shapes, and sizes of Americans/ Don’t get mad at me because I’m telling the truth/ We all acting stupid and that’s the ignorant truth/ But I’m talking to my people to enlighten the youth/ We have our hair now in corn rows and braids/ Back in the early nineties it use to be waves/ We “In Da’ Club” starting raids/ Kids in school making bad grades/ We killing each otha’/ My Sista’/ My brotha’/ Over ignorant thangs/ Such as a man/ Or woman/ Or even loose change/ Drive byes on the Bays/ In peoples driveways/ In the middle of broad days/ Stabbing and blowing peoples brains out/ And black America wants to bum ‘out/ Get jobs/ And wake the hell up black America and lets stop the drought/ And stop the system from thinking/ That they taking/ Over/ If we keep waiting/ Our lives will be over/ There’s no more to rap music/ Than it just being music/ You want the truth people- its only just music/ Killings a rapper says he’s done- It’s only just music/ You getting caught up by lyrics/ You feel that influence- but don’t forget that it’s only just music/ Your mind all corrupted from the weed that you smoke/ You getting straight stupid because your mind is on dope/ Wake the hell up Black America and see where we are headed/ We at a half tank of gas and I’m not talking leaded/ Or unleaded/ I’m talking about our population with only half of us educated/ Get right youth/ I’m telling the truth/ Because I once was ignorant but now I know the truth/ And can’t nobody earn that degree for you/ Except for you/ Wake up Black America/ Because you owe yourself Black America/ America/ Doesn’t owe you/// Mick Scott © 2006 Added to GotPoetry.com ( http://www.gotpoetry.com ) on 06-Sep-2006