Made in America [Radio]

The Last Poets - updated by Ethan] I love niggas, because niggas are me. And I should only love that which is me. I love that you niggas go through changes, love that you niggas act, love that you niggas make some plays and shoot the shit. But there's one thing about niggas that I don't love. Niggas are scared of revolution [T-K.A.S.H.] There's a war going on at home It's like Baghdad In American cities where all the blacks at Little kids that pack straps and backpacks Who clap cats for scratch snacks and gas masks Hard times Niggas are on the grind All of the time Faith in Allah small as a dime A cup of noodles for breakfast A cup of noodles for lunch and A cup of noodles for dinner Every day is the Winter Every day is December Cause evin in the middle of Summer The streets shudder from the poverty blizzard Rocket propelled grenades Landmines and letterbombs Open up your envelops With thoughts of them shuttin off Your water and your lights And your foods and your rights All you got in your life Is little dude and your wife So you move in the white With the crew in the night But you're nervous: The block drafted you into the service The curse You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga Wakin' up is the beginning of a day that's fucked Spoons and forks and napkins and plates and cups Everything but a meal I bang with my steel And feel hunger pains in me still I hit the front line with my ammo and my canteen Basketball and tennis shoes as a sand screen Shootin' jumpers as the boys in blue pass me Casually I pass cream to the crack fiends The other day a first Lieutenant was moded Started up the car and it exploded But didn't nobody notice I'm knowin' how it goes When if the the nigga with the purple heart of courage ain't the oldest It's cold shit But if I let little man push Little man could go and create a plan to ambush Double jeopardy Brothers reppin' me And tellin' me they lovin' and respectin' me Could be the death of me You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga God in heaven could you tell me why you never chose me You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga Times I asked you to provide or we wasn't goin' to eat You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga Why was everything that you was supposed to do on me You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga Since I'm not in heaven it's only one other place I can be Now shit's hard, when you're up in rank this far I hit bars and I mix and mingle with stars You flip cars with overtime you get scarred And with your broad you begin to whisper “discharge” Traumatized by the lies of the turncoats Who walk enemy ground to go and burn smoke Five dead single shot Glock nine to the head And you like, “Fuck em'” Them niggas have to learn though But things deepen Your enemy's peepin' The rate you're gain' weight got your thinergies creepin' They see you're not sleepin' So they got reason To send a soldier in your circle And manipulate the treason A psychological Hurricane Katrina And ain't nobody comin' to help Fuck FEMA I slowly turn the gun to myself and squeeze it And Mohhamed Era Su Allayet (?) I couldn't see it The grievous I didn't create this shit, I was born into it. Like I didn't create the projects, I didn't create homelessness, I didn't create poverty, I didn't create unemployment, I didn't create this poor educational system, I was pushed into it, and now you want to blame me for not rising above it? Shit, I may not be that strong! You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga You ain't a made nigga, you just afraid nigga