Black Paranoia / Black Vision (feat. Isaiah J. Tate, Li, & Antoine)

Dreams can turn to nightmares Transform into something that you might fear Dark skin, hoody up Get paranoid like no light is here What you seeing when you see me I ain't plotting I ain't scheming Unless I'm getting my Ben Banneker on I step outta the boat trying to handle the storm Woo! Good God It can all seem so bleak I'm over here trying to sound the horn All they hear is a screech My presence is a breach Of any intention to kill my flow But I refused to get beached So Ima scream until you hear me yo I'm feeling like a problem 'cause I don't fit in a box My body feeling alien, my stomach be in knots Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Feeling like a problem 'cause I don't fit in a box If you try to shackle me I'm breaking off them locks Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Everyday when I leave my crib I strategize what I'm gon bring with me My headphones, my phone charge And I never neglect to bring something to read I be on my black black black black I can face an attack tack tack tack And that thing come around and I don't get down When I hear the sound of kak kak kak kak They gon see when they search my corpse Howard Thurman in the side, stored So maybe I wasn't liable To be the oppos that they spy me for Oh, poor black boy In the newspaper got another sad story Killed by the force or in gang territory Can't walk nowhere without bags on me I'm feeling like a problem 'cause I don't fit in a box My body feeling alien, my stomach be in knots Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Feeling like a problem 'cause I don't fit in a box If you try to shackle me I'm breaking off them locks Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Ooooo The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice And they looking thirsty They ready to shoot Ready to light me up, I know the truth I am not moved My soul bulletproof They hanging on corner with drugs in their boots Applied by the system I call it a noose What we gon' do when they're feeding us lies Put down the semi and pick up a book And start feeding your mind 'Cause we ain't go time To ease up with our feet up Gotta get it Before they take us all in the middle of the city Got their hand on the trigger Got my hand on the Bible Fists in the air 'Cause you know it's Black Power I'm feeling like a problem 'cause I don't fit in a box My body feeling alien, my stomach be in knots Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Feeling like a problem 'cause I don't fit in a box If you try to shackle me I'm breaking off them locks Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black Paranoia Black vision it be so bright Dream on You got a special sight Black vision it be so bright You can only see the stars at night In darkness I see starlight In darkness I see starlight Precognition Rapid eye twitching Welcome to the interstitials of my sight space With all that's transpired And the tears made of fire You still lookin through me and you're looking like grace Put your wings over eyes Now it's WEs over Is Stay grounded in these roots We believe we can fly You see us in a different way we're more than what they say we are They try to put me in a cage, instead I'm penning cajun bars In spite of all the wrong done to us You let a sweet song to come through us They stop and frisk us They're closing schools We live and love We're changing rules Glimpses refined by Divinity's design Senses sublime 'stead of empty and resigned Nothing can take this hope from me I'm glad u came in the night and spoke to me Black vision Black vision it be so bright Dream on You got a special sight Black vision it be so bright You can only see the stars at night In darkness I see starlight In darkness I see starlight I remember when we used to socialize About our lives And realize that life was such a blessing Even in the midst of pain We would gain the knowledge To understand a setback is a setup for a lesson But now the world is getting colder Gotta look over my shoulder For the ones who can't admit my black is beauty Full of hatred My soul is aching They trying to strip us of our melanin And get us naked But I'm here to bring the power back Black vision Something like a Rosa Parks But a little different Something for the hood Mixed with a little Christian Yall see they killed Jesus Christ But he still living That's black vision That's black vision Black vision it be so bright Dream on You got a special sight Black vision it be so bright You can only see the stars at night In darkness I see starlight In darkness I see starlight