See the End - SOL, Otieno Terry

Are we the generation who’s gonna do something?

That’s an honest question

See my nephew playing with guns make-believing and such

Had to tell him about Tamir Rice and take away the fun

Now he resents the fact that he’s black

Says he wishes he was light skinned like I am

Self-hate, stereotypes, make the narrowest minds

They’ve been handing us lies since the beginning of time

Displacing the kings, raping the queens so they could break up the dream

I tell my story the is a one of a kind

Port-au-Prince in my heart, Holocaust on my mind

I write a rhyme I could fly

I ain’t dismissing your problems I know they’ve never been mine

Never walked in your shoes ain’t gonna stop walking in mine

There’s a problem with hip hop polarizing our thoughts

You mean to say I ain’t real because I got positive vibes?

You mean to say he can’t perform because you?

People judging like a competition, gimmicks like a politician

City segregated, music venues, no exception

You know the message, that’s unless you never listen

Microphone checking when I hold my weapon

I know everything I do is a blessing

From the water that I drink to the food I’m digesting

I’ve seen people dying fighting just to find some peace

It’s ironic thinking violence to get us where we need

Sometimes it does, sometimes you can’t just run you stand up

My momma raised me a man, my father raised me a leader the world made me a

rapper stumping in my Adidas

I don’t need a plaque, I don’t need a mil'

I just need to eat, I just need to feel like I’m speaking my real

Or I might explode, my mind might just go

I’ve seen too much pain to not change the globe

Yeah

If I don’t see the end, I pray you hear me now, I pray you understand

This is more than me, I never wanted to be anything more than you I just want

to be part of the peace

If I open my eyes again, will I see the end?

Will I fall again?

And if they come for my life again, will they see the end?

Or will I fall again?