For Shontel, Joe and The Future -- Hell Yes, We Can

[ancianita]

Marlon Craft -- Time Will Tell

It looks like reparation, not just in donations
It look like time sacrifice structural compensation
It looks like cheaper loans on mortgages to make up for
That home owner’s loan corporation, cuz those ghettos we made em/
It looks like less sugar coats and more Ta-Nehisi
It look like real democracy no more oligarchy
360 deals used for enslavement doin 180s
Non-recoupable payments for all the years that you played em/
It looks like judgin corporate efforts at engagement
done by black folks on the ground who do the engagin
No more companies makin rules, standards, and criteria
Then makin ads tellin us they hearin ya, fuck outta here/

It looks like actually carin a lot
It looks like their shitty schools becomin our shitty schools
And actually integratin’ em til they fair It’s a lot,
i know but you asked and i’m tellin you so dont back out now/
It look like ‘fore jumpin to conclusion, hesitatin
It look like excavation,
Diggin up your inner hatred that this nation gave us stop pretendin it aint there
It look like validatin’ your own pain n still acknowledgin that shit aint fair/

They like tell me what it look like…

It looks like micro and macro workin in tandem
It looks like gettin rid of that racist ass national anthem
It looks like truth and reconciliation word to south africa
It look like admittin that our god is capital and abandonin faith/
Cuz capitalism is white supremacy hype man
And it look like knowin where the fight lands
And if we won’t give up bullshit american dream allegories
In search of equality, then it look like a saddenin story/
It look like leadership, it look like not stuffin our faces
when they feed us shit we know is toxic designed to sedate us
Less talkin more bein shit, it look like readin shit
Cuz there’s no substitute for knowledge, You can’t sparknotes a revolution /
homie look are we in this?

It look like honest conversations bout what we would give
And you aint gotta give your life like on the line but
You do gotta give it daily will u bleed this shit when it’s off cycle /
like do you mean this shit? And This aint the half of it
But im jus tired of writin the same raps n shit for years cuz it
look like amplifyin voices aint mine and i’ma try
Cuz, well it look like tryin/

And at the end of the day, if this shit look like dyin
For this platform of mine then shit that’s what it look like
Cuz i dont know how it feel but i know how i feel and
That shit look like cryin, that shit look like askin why/
N worryin bout my brothers safety i would ride for
So if it look like ridin fuck it it look like riotin
a lot of history just look like timin
Look around this could be ours, go on pick your side then.

[Tommymac]

1. Words mean something. Love this.

Thank you for posting. Bookmarked.