[Intro: Vera Hall & Tamika Mallory]
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Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
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Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard
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Dont nobody know my troubles but God
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Don’t nobody know my troubles but God
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Ooh Lordy (This a coordinated activity happening across this nation)
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Ooh Lordy (And so we are in a state of emergency)
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Ooh Lordy (Black people are dying)
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Dont nobody know my troubles but God (We cannot look at this as an isolated incident)
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[Verse 1: Jeezy]
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My momma still sick (Sick), aint shit new (Nah)
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Ain’t much changed, the hood still blue (Woo)
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Ridin with a dirty chopper but the wood still new (Boom)
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If they catch you off at Wendys they might kill you too (Yeah)
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George still dead, Breonna still gone (Gone)
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Ahmaud Arbery, nah he never made it home
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Forty million unеmployed, what the fuck is goin on?
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Lets burn this bitch down, rеbuild it like its Rome (Haha)
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I check out the news, RIP Lil Marlo (Marlo)
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They done killed a baby, took a breath with a hallow
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Only in America, they drink us straight up out the bottle (Woo)
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Racism, no chaser, thats some hard shit to swallow
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I’ma pray for Chi-Town, it’s goin down like Beirut
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They wanna make us start war, that’s why they sendin in the troops (Damn)
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Send em somewhere where they know they gon shoot
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I can smell war, that’s why Im lacin up my boots (Lets go)
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[Chorus: Vera Hall & Tamika Mallory]
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Ooh Lordy (Do what you say, this country is supposed to be about the land of the free for all)
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Ooh Lordy (It has not been free for Black people, and we are tired)
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Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard (Dont talk to us about looting)
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Dont nobody know my troubles but God (America has been looting Black people, America looted the Native Americans when they first came here)
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[Verse 2: Jeezy]
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Yeah, went to sleep a Black man
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Woke up a Black king (King)
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Feeling like LeBron when a nigga won his ring (Woo)
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I think I own a castle, I can see it in my dreams (Dreams)
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I gotta pay the mortgage, so I hit a couple schemes (Haha)
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Fishchale nigga, yeah, seafood diet (Diet)
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Heard its a drought, we gon motherfuckin riot (Woo)
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Young Thug daughter, yeah Im motherfuckin tired (Hey)
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Dear Mister President, youre motherfuckin fired (Lets go)
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Cant vote for Donald cause that nigga dont feel us (Feel us)
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Cant vote for Donald cause that nigga gon kill us (Damn)
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Black Lives Matter til a nigga need a loan (Hey)
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Credit score good til a nigga want a home (Haha)
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Keep me on that frontline, you can catch me in them streets (Streets)
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They done killed the lil homie, defund the police (Yeah)
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All them niggas start riots cause they know we gon loot (Loot)
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Im ready for the war thats why Im lacin up my boots, yeah (Lets go)
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[Chorus: Vera Hall & Tamika Mallory]
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Ooh Lordy (So, if you are not coming to the peoples defense)
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Ooh Lordy (Dont challenge us, when young people and other people who are frustrated)
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Ooh Lordy, troubles so hard (By the people you pay, you are paying, instigated to be among our people out there)
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Dont nobody know my troubles but God (Throwing rocks, breaking windows and burning down buildings)
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[Outro: Tamika Mallory]
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And so young people are responding to that
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They are enraged and theres an easy way to stop it
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Arrest the cops
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Charge all the cops, not just some of them
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Charge them in every city across America, where our people are being murdered
