[Part I] ~#**************#~ [Intro] ~#**************#~ Hands up, officer dont shoot ~#**************#~ Then pull your pants up, promise you wont loot ~#**************#~ We may never understand each other, its no use ~#**************#~ We aint ever gonna grasp what each other goes through ~#**************#~ [Verse 1] ~#**************#~ Black boy, black boy, we aint gonna lie to you ~#**************#~ Black boy, black boy, we dont like the sight of you ~#**************#~ Pull up on the side of you ~#**************#~ Window rolled down, ‘profile ~#**************#~ Then we wonder why we see this side of you ~#**************#~ Probably comin from the dope house ~#**************#~ We could let you slide but your tail light is blew, out ~#**************#~ We know youre hidin that Heidi Klum ~#**************#~ On you another drug charge, homie, its back inside for you ~#**************#~ And just in case a chase might ensue, we got that tried and true ~#**************#~ Pistol drew right at you, wed be delighted to unload it ~#**************#~ In your back, then walk up and lay that taser on the side of you ~#**************#~ Fucked up, but what the fuck am I to do? ~#**************#~ I keep tellin myself, keep doin like youre doin ~#**************#~ No matter how many lives you ruin ~#**************#~ Its for the red, white and blue ~#**************#~ Time to go find a new one and split his head right in two ~#**************#~ No ones ever indicted you ~#**************#~ Why? ‘Cause youre a… ~#**************#~ [Chorus: Eminem & Cheech and Chong] ~#**************#~ White boy, white boy, youre a rockstar ~#**************#~ My momma talkin to me, tryna tell me how to live ~#**************#~ White boy, white boy, in your cop car ~#**************#~ But I dont listen to her, cause my head is like a sieve ~#**************#~ White boy, white boy, youre untouchable ~#**************#~ The worlds coming to an end, I dont even care ~#**************#~ Nobody can tell me shit cause Im a big rockstar ~#**************#~ [Verse 2] ~#**************#~ Black boy, black boy, we dont get your culture and ~#**************#~ We dont care what our governments done to fuck you over, man ~#**************#~ Dont tell us your attitudes a result of that ~#**************#~ Balderdash, whered you get the chip on your shoulder at? ~#**************#~ Why you kicking that soda can? ~#**************#~ Pull your pants up, we bout to roll up and ~#**************#~ Throw your ass in the van cuffed ~#**************#~ You dont have to know our plans or what our intentions are ~#**************#~ Our cards are close to our chest, you better show your hands ~#**************#~ And put our minds more at ease ~#**************#~ Or get shot in the thyroid, comply or die, boy ~#**************#~ Were fightin a crime war, here come the swine ~#**************#~ Tryna clean up the streets from all these minorities ~#**************#~ Thats what we call em pigsties for ~#**************#~ Theyre like eyesores to police ~#**************#~ Talk to you like just a piece of trash ~#**************#~ Feels like were stuck in a time warp to me ~#**************#~ As I kick these facts and get these mixed reactions ~#**************#~ As this beat backspins, its like were drifting back in ~#**************#~ To the sixties, having black skin is risky ~#**************#~ ‘Cause this keeps happening ~#**************#~ Throughout history, African-Americans have been treated like shit ~#**************#~ And I admit, there have been times where its been embarrassin to be a… ~#**************#~ [Chorus: Eminem & Cheech and Chong] ~#**************#~ White boy, white boy, youre a rockstar ~#**************#~ My momma talkin to me, tryna tell me how to live ~#**************#~ White boy, white boy, in your cop car ~#**************#~ But I dont listen to her, cause my head is like a sieve ~#**************#~ White boy, white boy, youre untouchable ~#**************#~ The worlds coming to an end, I dont even care ~#**************#~ Nobody can tell me shit cause Im a big rockstar ~#**************#~ [Part II] ~#**************#~ [Verse 3] ~#**************#~ Seems like the average lifespan of a white man ~#**************#~ Is more than twice than a black life span ~#**************#~ I wonder sometimes if it has a price scanner ~#**************#~ I feel like checking out on life, cant escape this circumstance ~#**************#~ Id rather hear em say “Die N-word” than Die Antwoord ~#**************#~ Ninja, now its better disguised banter ~#**************#~ But thats life, strapped cause were strapped financially ~#**************#~ And cant find answers ~#**************#~ Were applying, but McDonalds ~#**************#~ Seems to be the only franchise thatll hire ~#**************#~ So how can we have higher standards? ~#**************#~ As Dallas overshadows the battle for Black Lives Matter ~#**************#~ We fight back with violence but acts like that are ~#**************#~ Black eyes on the movement ~#**************#~ Which makes black lives madder ~#**************#~ At cops and cops madder ~#**************#~ Thats why its at a stalemate ~#**************#~ And cant arrive at a compromise so its Black Ops ~#**************#~ I wonder if we hire more black cops, the crap stops ~#**************#~ The block is our backyards, officers, not the crack spot ~#**************#~ Call the attack dogs off of us, man ~#**************#~ You always act all pissed off at us at a traffic stop ~#**************#~ And bad cops fuck it up for the good cops, and man, stop ~#**************#~ Sendin white cops in the black neighborhoods ~#**************#~ Who aint acclimated to em, like thats the way to do it ~#**************#~ Who seen some fuckin videos of rappers waving guns ~#**************#~ And know nobody black so they act afraid of us ~#**************#~ And thats racism, the fear that a black face gives em ~#**************#~ A subconscious racist ~#**************#~ Wait, why are there black neighborhoods? ~#**************#~ ‘Cause America segregated us, designated us to an area ~#**************#~ Separated us, Section-Eightd us ~#**************#~ When we tear it ups the only time attentions paid to us ~#**************#~ And education sucks, and every days another ~#**************#~ Freddie Gray for us, a levy breaks or fuzz ~#**************#~ Why is it they treat us like dryer lint? ~#**************#~ We just want a safe environment for our kids ~#**************#~ But cant escape the sirens ~#**************#~ Dont take a scientist to see our violent nature lies in ~#**************#~ The poverty that we face so the crime rates the highest in ~#**************#~ The lowest classes, its like a razor wire fence ~#**************#~ And were trapped in these racial biases ~#**************#~ That plague our society which makes our anxiety levels raise ~#**************#~ Every time we see a devils face ~#**************#~ Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my ~#**************#~ Its more like billy clubs and gats ~#**************#~ And we really love it when you think were guilty ‘cause were black ~#**************#~ “But you kill each other, facts ~#**************#~ You peel each others caps, for silly stuff like hats” ~#**************#~ Single mother strugglin through substance abuse ~#**************#~ While people with nothin to lose shoot each other for shoes ~#**************#~ Fuck your Republican views ~#**************#~ Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, where the fuck are the boots? ~#**************#~ And streets act as a narrator, dont gotta read comics ~#**************#~ Or be that into characters, just to see that, just to be black ~#**************#~ You better be strapped with a derringer ~#**************#~ Or be “capped in America” like Steve Rogers ~#**************#~ ‘Cause no one oversees these cops and ~#**************#~ All we see is em beat charges ~#**************#~ We done seen em beat Rodney King unconscious, and got off ~#**************#~ So we dont need all you crooked police officers peace offerings ~#**************#~ Just keep marchin, til we reach congress ~#**************#~ But theyre gonna say youre tryin to take an irrational stance ~#**************#~ If you try to slander the flag but ~#**************#~ Somebody has to be the sacrificial lamb ~#**************#~ So they call it a Kaepernick tantrum ~#**************#~ If you dont stand for the national anthem ~#**************#~ We raise it, you better praise it ~#**************#~ Or youll be made to feel like a traitor, well ~#**************#~ Treat you like Rodney Dangerfield ~#**************#~ Home of the brave is still racist ‘ville ~#**************#~ So this whole nation feels like a plantation field ~#**************#~ In a country that claims that its foundation was based on United States ideals ~#**************#~ That had its Natives killed ~#**************#~ Got you singin this star-spangled spiel ~#**************#~ To a piece of cloth that represents the “Land of the Free” that made people slaves to build