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Where there’s health neglect

There’s no self-respect

But what else you expect?

Look how they dealt the deck

We inherited stress

Had to bury our best

Martin, Malcolm X

Bullet holes in they chest

We adapt to the struggle

Only way we survive

Eating scraps from the table

But it kept us alive

Making something from nothing

Still we hope for the best

Making miracles happen, daily coping with less

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Raised in the ghetto

Singing songs — called survival

But eating soul food to

Have you dead on arrival

Hand on the rifle

Other hand on the bible

Strong as an ox

But look at what you put inside you

We resillient beings

Do the silliest things

Know better than you better

Cause that’s what experience brings

Break out of jail

But can you break out a sickle cell?

We say we livin well

But we living in hell

We already been to the other side

We ain’t turning back, now we choose a lie

To many goodbyes, and that ain’t right

We feel it inside, it’s time to fight

We already been to the other side

We ain’t turning back, now we choose a lie

To many goodbyes, and that ain’t right

We feel it inside, it’s time to fight

We glues to the TV screen commercials in-between

Crack Donalds, Murda King

What happened to eat your greens?

Eatin some or anything, abusing Mary Jane

Chinese chicken wings, everyday hood thing

5 hour energy, red bull and Hennessey

Head bobbin but the organs full of toxicity

Pack a cool menthol, nicotine pit fall

They have the nerve to

Put cool on the pack so they can trick y’all

Slave to the Dutch master

Colon cancer victim

Tell you on the package

But we still blame the system

No squares in my circle

Screw all that sippin purple

I’m tryina live to my potential

Age is just a number

A G preserve his temple

A G control his temper

No discipline, you slippin

No toxins in my kitchen

Slavery is over cousin

But then at lunch it wasn’t

If food is the last plantation

Then I’m Harriet Tubman

Advocating colonics

Saving my lungs from chronic

But you can’t free a slave

Unless he knows he’s in bondage

(You wanna get freaky? Let’s go)

You can’t free a slave

Unless he knows he’s in bondage