Dead Nigga Blvd. (pt. 1) Lyrics - Me'shell Ndegéocello

You sell your soul 

like you sell a piece of ass 

slave to the dead white leaders on paper 

and welfare cases 

rapists and hoes 

all reinforced your tv show 

exotic and beautiful videos 

Yeah 

a jail's a sanctuary for the walking dead 

it fucks with your head 

when every black leader ends up dead 

somebody said 

our greatest destiny is to become white 

but white is not pure 

and hate is not pride 

and just cuz civil rights is law 

doesn't mean that we all abide 

So tell me are you free? 

while we campaign for every 

dead nigga blvd 

so young motherfuckers can 

drive down it in your fancy cars 

free 

you try to hold on to some africa of the past 

one must remember 

it's other africans 

that helped enslave your ass 

cuz everybody's 

just trying to make that dollar 

remember what jesse used to say? 

i am somebody 

no longer do i blame others 

for the way that we be 

cuz niggas need to redefine 

what it means to be free 

I can't even tell my brothers and sisters 

that they're fine 

this absence of beauty 

in their heart and mind 

stopped breastfeeding the child 

you put 'em on the cow 

and now you wonder why they act wild 

you see brown folks are the 

keepers of the earth 

unifiers of the soul and mind 

not these wannabe-gotti pimps and thugs 

wearing diamond watches 

from african slave mines 

Perhaps to be free 

is to all love those who hate me 

and die a beautiful death 

and make pretty brown babies 

You campaign for every 

dead nigga blvd 

so y'all young motherfuckers can 

drive down it in their fancy cars 

you try to hold on to some africa of the past 

then one must remember 

it's other africans 

that helped enslave your ass 

everybody's trying to make that dollar 

remember what jesse used to say? 

i am somebody 

no longer do i blame others 

for the way that we be 

cuz niggas need to redefine 

what it means to be free 

You campaign for every 

dead nigga blvd 

just trying to make that dollar 

so y'all young motherfuckers can 

drive down it in your fancy cars 

you try to hold on to some africa of the past 

then one must remember 

it's other africans 

that helped enslave your ass 

cuz everybody's 

trying to make that dollar 

remember what jesse used to say? 

i am somebody 

no longer do i blame white folks 

for the way that we be 

cuz niggas need to redefine 

what it means to be 

free. 

Dick gregory: ("human rights & property rights"): 

"understand young folks, when you put property rights ahead of human rights 

understand you're tampering with nature. 

hmm. that's right. you see, property rights is controlled by man 

and human rights, is controlled by nature." 

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