Black Matter

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Jay Gatz

Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The character is an enigmatic nouveau riche millionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his vast fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States. Fitzgerald based many details about the fictional character on Max Gerlach, a mysterious neighbor and World War I veteran whom the author met while living in New York City during the raucous Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Gerlach threw lavish parties, never wore the same shirt twice, used the phrase "old sport", claimed to be educated at Oxford University, and fostered myths about himself, inc… more »


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[00:01.07] Yung Nab baby

[00:14.27] I feel like a heavyweight 
[00:16.39] Roll up and medicate
[00:18.25] Get money never hate
[00:19.86] I got a heavy plate
[00:21.88] This smoke I blow levitate 
[00:23.52] You better be very worried 
[00:25.25] This years looking very scary
[00:27.02] I can’t come in second like February
[00:29.03] Inside all my ppl coffins, there’s kings and queens in all them
[00:32.64] Outside all my ppl marchin’ but still they kill what’s darker
[00:36.24] George Floyd said he couldn’t breathe
[00:38.24] I wish somebody would’ve stopped them
[00:40.09] Leaves fall from the tree in fall, cause they can’t breathe in autumn
[00:43.48] & what they do? Put us in piles and put us in bags
[00:45.94] Throw us away, like we was trash
[00:47.71] America’s finest landscaping, the Uniform come with a gun and a badge
[00:51.40] And no you are not better than 
[00:52.63] You fear what you don’t understand 
[00:54.18] Fail to see the innocence in my melanin 
[00:56.32] Bitter circles need better friends 
[00:58.28] We need Less Facebook, more hustle
[01:00.32] More opinions lead to more trouble 
[01:02.06] People that I went to school with, or was cool wit
[01:04.62] Let it all crumble
[01:05.81] Never did you want the understanding 
[01:07.76] You don’t care you got the upper hand and
[01:09.31] People only react to whatever directly affects them, I can’t fucking stand it! 

[01:13.37] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[01:16.87] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[01:20.61] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!
[01:24.13] & Let the whole world know, just how our black world is!

[01:28.12] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[01:31.71] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[01:35.21] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!
[01:39.05] & Let the whole world know, just how our black world is
[01:42.53] Black Matter 

[01:43.68] I just pray I make it back home!
[01:45.61] I just wanna make it back home safe
[01:47.16] I just wanna make it back home!
[01:49.30] I just pray I make it back home safe
[01:50.99] I just pray I make it back home!
[01:52.93] I just wanna make it back home safe
[01:54.66] My hands high I won’t run, don’t got no gun or nuttin’
[01:57.19] Officer don’t shoot! 

[01:58.47] Is the world in peace or pieces?
[01:59.82] Why don’t you police your demons?
[02:01.21] Why don’t you police police 
[02:02.31] When they are killing ppl week by week of color tryna make it decent living? 
[02:05.15] Type em in and you can see the killings
[02:06.80] I get numb-er every pleaded sentence 
[02:08.52] Another body on the body camera, they don’t wanna believe some police are menace
[02:12.15] But I think that they’re gettin’ the point now
[02:13.94] Even though we still got a long way 
[02:15.74] I just hope that my brothers is safe
[02:17.55] It was weed get the gun out my face
[02:19.42] They just kill us for nothing these days 
[02:21.32] Lately I ain’t had nothing to say
[02:23.17] Lately I ain’t had nothing but hate
[02:24.94] lately I ain’t need nothing but faith

[02:27.23] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[02:30.84] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[02:34.40] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!
[02:38.11] & Let the whole world know, just how our black world is!

[02:41.69] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[02:45.59] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!

[02:49.02] Let that black king grow, let our black queens live!
[02:52.79] & Let the whole world know, just how our black world is
[02:56.42] Black Matter 

[02:57.56] I just pray I make it back home!
[02:59.29] I just wanna make it back home safe
[03:01.17] I just wanna make it back home!
[03:03.28] I just pray I make it back home safe
[03:04.85] I just pray I make it back home!
[03:06.69] I just wanna make it back home safe
[03:08.53] My hands high I won’t run, don’t got no gun or nuttin’
[03:11.05] Officer don’t shoot! 

Written by: Jordan Hall

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