Black & White
Master P
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Check it out, Bobby, I got a joke, you wanna hear it?
It better be funny
Check this out
What do you call a black doctor running through
Central Park in a T-shirt, sweats, and a baseball cap?
I don't know, Roy, you got me on this one
A nigga!
Hey, Dad, I got in a fight with this white kid today at school
Son, did I tell you I didn't want you to fight?
But he called me a nigga
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
And this goes to everyone, my man, boy, and girl
It's a shame when you can't send your kids to decent schools
We live in a world full of laws and no rules
Gangbangers, street signs and chalk lines
Correctional facilities full of juveniles doing petty crimes
And this ghetto got me crazy
Sometimes I wish mama wouldn't have made me
But it's a shame when you gotta raise a baby
And the color of my skin might take me
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
And this goes to everyone, my man, boy, and girl
And all the money can't change the color of your skin
Why so many blacks and Mexicans in the pen?
Is it 'cause we violent?
And why Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and started smilin'?
So many people have dreams
But why society eliminated Martin Luther King?
And they tell us to be proud to be black
And at the same time Uncle Tom shoot us in the back
Independence, it's a free country
No jobs, most blacks turn to street money
A bunch of ghettos full of drugs and alcohol
Welfare history books about white laws
And Tommy Hilfiger discriminate and sell us clothes
But we can't blame them 'cause we don't support the black stores
And only God can judge or point the finger
What's white or black if red and blue equals gangbang?
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
And this goes to everyone, my man, boy, and girl
I'm just a black man
I'm colorblind so Lord, won't you feel my pain?
Hold on, hold on
I'm colorblind so Lord, won't you feel my pain?
Please pray for your little brother
Silkk, keep your head up
I be trying but sometimes I get fed up
And what about all the people that died in the past?
Years we can't get back
What about the man they found guilty?
And um, he didn't do it, the years he can't get back
I see the cops be tryna nail me, police constantly trail me
'Cause I'm young, rich and black, I'm always under surveillance
They ask me out the car and won't ask me who to cough up
They got laws you can carry guns but can't never be convicted
Who that law for? How I'm guilty to prove an innocent?
If we're all equal, how do you figure?
Cops told me, "You wasn't speeding but
I'ma give you a ticket 'cause you a nigga"
I seen the hardest of my homies break down in tears
A white judge looked him in the eyes and gave him thirty-five years
Now it's an everyday struggle, a hustle just to live
To raise your kids, what they gotta teach
Them if they parents better than this?
It got me thinking, the color of my skin is a sin
I'm a black man in a white man's world that's set up for me not to win
Ain't that about a bitch? They look at us like we ain't shit
But look, I ain't racist but face it, it exists
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
I'm just a black man trapped in this white world
And this goes to everyone, my man, boy, and girl
Check this out
Underneath, it ain't no black or white thing
We all equal
We all equal
We all equal
And we all (Remember that) got the same opportunities
Whether we wanna be judges, doctors or lawyers
It ain't a black or white thing
It's the best man for the job
And there shouldn't be no hating
Where you live, if you can afford to buy a house
You should be able to live wherever you want
The same hospitality they give the athletes and movie stars
You should give that same hospitality and
Companionship to your neighbor, you heard?
Y'all know it ain't a black or white thing with me
I just make music for the reality
Only the real can feel this
Only the real can feel this