VEXED

When society doesn't respect you it makes you vexed
Like you're hanging from a tree with a noose around your neck
Born in the projects can produce products of their environment
Sometimes a lack of guidance can make many violent

Yet the government won't do shit to help change those conditions
Conditions that seem to lead many to fill up for profit prisons
Transmissions being received by me is that they don't give a fuck
Let's start at the top with that racist and heartless ass Trump

He dumps all of his hate all over the place
Proclaiming that he'll make America great
Wait, so is he basically saying America ain't shit?
Y'all elected him but then get mad at Kaepernick

Ain't that about a mothafuckin bitch? Hypocrites!
Can't they see that he only cares about the rich?
The stinch from his mouth without a doubt is hate filled
But y'all want to blame division on kneeling on a football field

How would you feel knowing that your anthem celebrates the death of your ancestors?
How would you feel when cops kill and we still have no one to turn to for answers?
How would you feel knowing that the food in your hood is toxic and can cause cancer?
How would you feel seeing more love for a cloth than a life lost by the gun of an officer?

Well sir, the oval officer feels that they're sons of bitches
He even has the audacity to be encouraging more stitches
I don't get this! Does America once again view us as 3/5th's of a man?
Does America want us in chains again to be treated subhuman?

Help me understand, that as a black man, African (American?), why I should sing that song
With the knowledge of all of this if I didn't resist it'd must be because I was high from a bong
Salaam is what I'm expected to say even though you hate my race?
The actions and inactions of factions of this nation is such a disgrace

I've served my country (supposedly), been to war overseas, and this is how you thank people like me?
By complacently watching our lives being taken by the powers that be

I JUST WANT SOME PEACE
I JUST WANT TO BE FREE