TEMPTATION - Joey Bada$$

I come here today to talk about how I feel

And I feel like that we are treated differently than other people

And I don’t like how we’re treated

Just because of our color doesn’t mean anything to me

This just the way I feel

Minds been racing so long

It’s just no way to deal

With these problems alone

And I really can’t take it no more

I be fighting temptations, my Lord

I’m making them restless (And I really can’t help it)

I never felt selfish before

I’ve been living so reckless, I know

Tell me Lord can you help me?

(I said Lord can you help me?)

Now everybody got problems, yeah

But ain’t no way to solve em

I really came up from the bottom

Strugglin', my momma on her last dollar

Hustling man I’ve been putting in these hours

The government been trying to take away what’s ours

It’s really all about the money and the power

I just wanna see my people in power

Uh, uh, tell me how we gon' shape this vision

Complainin' all day, but in the same conditions

If you wanna make change, it’s gonna take commitment

Some people enslaved by they religion

Can’t emancipate the fundamental prisons

When I see through optics, transform the wisdom

Watch me use my powers, get em all to listen

I’ve been on a mission, ah!

And I really can’t take it no more

I be fighting temptations, my Lord

I’m making them restless (And I really can’t help it)

I never felt selfish before

I’ve been living so reckless, I know

Tell me Lord can you help me?

(I said Lord can you help me?)

Now everybody got vice, yeah

But wouldn’t know what good advice was

Until they leave him lifeless

Another momma crying, it’s another crisis

Lord knows we just trying to live righteous

Are you willing just to make the sacrifices?

I know we can’t continue living like this

And I never sell my soul because that’s priceless, uh, uh

Tell me how we gon' make a living

Hustle on the block who gon' save the children?

Menace on the block and I’m just revealing

The media just trying to make a villain

I just take the pain and a paint a picture

Voices in my head, I hear the whispers

When I feel this way inhale the swisher

Or I sip the liquor, ah!

And I really can’t take it no more

I be fighting temptations, my Lord

I’m making them restless (And I really can’t help it)

I never felt selfish before

I’ve been living so reckless I know

Tell me Lord can you help me?

(I said Lord can you help me?)

This just the way I feel

Mind’s been racing so long

It’s just no way to deal

With these problems alone

And I really can’t take it no more

I be fighting temptations, my Lord

I’m making them restless (I said Lord, can you help me?)

I never felt selfish before

I’ve been living so reckless, I know

Tell me Lord can you help me?

(I said Lord can you help me?)

Do not stop

We are black people and we shouldn’t have to feel like this

We shouldn’t have to protest because you are treating us wrong

We do this because we need to and we have rights