Hand-Me-Downs

Come on say it loud
 Look what we handed down
 Don't it make you proud?
 Look what we handed down
 Come on say it loud
 Look what we handed down
 Don't it make you proud?
 Look what we handed down
 My mommy gave me Donny half away
 Young gifted and black
 Amidst the positivity, I wound to bring it back
 But rap now a days is by a bunch of ignorant cats
 No young gifted and black
 Just guns bitches and crack
 I react by turning off bet and Sambo's telling me what blackness is supposed to be
 Used to give us world news now it's all videos replaced Tavis Smiley with reality shows
 If you let the Tv define what black is you think ice and violence is all we think that matters
 I guess this is what happens when rappers look up to thugs
 And kids look up to rappers
 To some of y'all if I don't talk about the gat enough
 Or sell crack enough
 I ain't black enough
 But I rather be a pro at being myself
 Than be an idiot trying to be somebody else, what
 Come on say it loud
 Look what we handed down
 Don't it make you proud?
 Look what we handed down
 Come on say it loud
 Look what we handed down
 Don't it make you proud?
 Look what we handed down
 I'm at the bus stop with my bike
 Been there for a while
 Mom's taught me how to catch this route when I was a child
 Another kid walks up freakin up black and mild
 Fifteen same age, I learn shits wild
 An older lady walks up greets us with a smile
 Asks how we both doing and sits down
 She knows what's it's like to grow up in the south
 Civil rights when the white's was hosing us down
 I started thinking to myself that even though that time's were tougher
 They still took timeout to speak to one another
 But look at us, me and this young brother
 Acting to proud to break down and speak to each other
 So inside I felt ashamed
 Not sure of how to but I wanna change
 And as long as I'm alive than the fact remains
 That it's never too late for us to break the chains
 Come on y'all
 Come on say it loud
 Look what we handed down
 Don't it make you proud?
 Look what we handed down
 Come on say it loud
 Look what we handed down
 Don't it make you proud?
 Look what we handed down
 Things, things, things is bound to change
 Things, things, things is bound to change
 Things, things, things is bound to change
 Bound, bound to change