Sad News - Swizz Beatz

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Little boy got shot down today

A little boy got shot down today

I hope his family is okay

I hope his family is okay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

I hope the whole world be okay

I hope the world will be okay

Get on ya knees and pray

Get on ya knees and pray

We hope the whole world be okay, okay

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay

See the story from Houston

From a little boy that was goin to the store

For his mother for some groceries at store

He had his hoodie on, yea

He had his hoodie on

Mistaken identity for robbery and theft

Man they took that last boy breath

Man they took that last boy breath

The police not guilty, the police not guilty

Even was the wrong ID police still fuckin not guilty

Little boy got shot down today

A little boy got shot down today

I hope his family is okay

I hope his family is okay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

I hope the whole world be okay

I hope the world will be okay

Get on ya knees and pray

Get on ya knees and pray

We hope the whole world be okay, okay

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay

Shot down for the dope and the dollar sign

I often sit and wonder could this world be mine, nah

I be lying if I said I ain’t heard em

When they told me I was just a nigga

Nothing but a burden to society

They call the Ku Klux to quiet me

Wonder why I’m stuck in here reacting to it violently

They hating on me silently, my skin my sin

That’s why black man history’s a one-month window

Staring out the back seat of my maybach benz though

Like that shit matter, while my homies and my kin folks suffer

Playin jealous hard motherfuckers, wishin they could be you

Envious, see through

I ain’t scared of the boogey-man, fuck em

If Trump want war I give to him, gon buck em

America with three K’s

Freedom got a shotgun

For all the homies shot down by white boys

And not one convicted

Of wrong doing, is it justice we pursuing

Freedom of death, beat em to death, fuck em

I will awake the sleeping giants, with one last word

One last nerve, me and you are not equal

It’s not about the flag, change the people

Little boy got shot down today

A little boy got shot down today

I hope his family is okay

I hope his family is okay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

Is it our race that pay

I hope the whole world be okay

I hope the world will be okay

Get on ya knees and pray

Get on ya knees and pray

We hope the whole world be okay, okay

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay

Yea we gotta liven things up

Pray for all the lost ones, lost in the battle

Lost in the battle, all the parents thats lost in the battle

And the fight they can’t battle

Ban all the bad judges, ban all the bad judges

That’s not giving justice

Ban all the judges that’s not giving justice

To the culture, to the culture

They culture vultures, yeah yeah

Ban all the, ban all corruption

Our culture so beautiful

We talk to the people

We walk together we some equals (yeah, yeah)

No big I’s and no little you’s

No big I’s, no little you’s

We all together this time

We shoot together this time

Stick together this time

Your color my color they color how I color