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Streets on Fire

by Kelechi

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God bless Oluwatoyin, Breonna, Rayshard, George, Sandra, Eric, Mike Trayvon and every black body that isn't warm any more.

Amen.

ILYIYGAF

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Repetition ain’t the father of learning
Cause if it was, then Minneapolis wouldn’t be burnin
The destruction of some property is barely concernin
But this ain’t for my niggas; The choir done heard of this sermon
It’s getting harder and harder for us to get to the heart of it
We can’t even say ”We Matter” without startin an argument
And that’s My biggest issue with the police apologist
Saying Colin’s dissin vets, as if that’s what the problem is
“Protest but make it peaceful” shit is crazy to me
The same ones that’s mad at kaepernick for takin a knee
Breonna momma thought her daughter was “safe as can be”
Cause plainclothes shouldn’t kick in doors of places we sleep
There’s a war going on outside and I’m a target
My best advice to all my solders: Find a Target
Cause nothin else matter till my Black Life does
We settin’ fires if these niggas tryna gaslight us.

I see the streets. The streets.
I see’em on fire let the muhfuckas burn
To the beat. To the beat
And keep’em on fire till these muhfuckas learn
That heat. This THAT heat
And IF we rise from the ashes
I just pray that we don’t repeat
I’m just prayin that we don’t repeat
But we gone repeat

I see fires in the streets. I see riots in the streets.
I see our Head-ass of state steady lying in his tweets
“Shut up and dribble.” They just want us quiet in the streets
Implicit bias they ain’t rapping when they riding on the beat
I see white folks scrambling. The whole country redecorating.
Taking down statues. Hope we stop mentioning reparations.
Maybe its the rapture? I know you been reading Revelations
Red green black the new flag of confederation
If I sound bored. I just seen it before.
I got a couple parents. survivors of a civil war
So its hard for me to subscribe to hate for the poor
When the system drinks up resources that they could have poured.
So kill’em all. Kill’em all and send’em straight to the morgue
For false advertising and stating: “this nation is yours”
History repeats itself I feel it taking its course
Don’t give the power to the people, they gone take it by force.

I see the streets. The streets.
I see’em on fire let the muhfuckas burn
To the beat. To the beat
And keep’em on fire till these muhfuckas learn
That heat. This THAT heat
And IF we rise from the ashes
I just pray that we don’t repeat
I’m just prayin that we don’t repeat
But we gone repeat

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released June 19, 2020
written, recorded, mixed, mastered by Kelechi

Produced by Coop

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