Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 1

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Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Meshell Ndegeocello ( mish-EL ən-DAY-gay-oh-CHEL-oh; born Michelle Lynn Johnson on August 29, 1968) is a German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. She has gone by the name Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur which is used as a writing credit on some of her later work. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, being nominated for eleven Grammy Awards, and winning one. She also has been credited for helping to "spark the neo-soul movement". more »

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2002

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You sell your soul 
Like you sell a piece of ass
Slave to the dead white leaders on paper 
And welfare cases 
Rapists and hoes 
All reinforced your tv show 
Exotic and beautiful videos 

Yeah 
A jail's a sanctuary for the walking dead 
It fucks with your head 
When every black leader ends up dead 
Somebody said 
Our greatest destiny is to become white 
But white is not pure 
And hate is not pride 
And just 'cause civil rights is law 
Doesn't mean that we all abide 

So tell me are you free? 
While we campaign for every 
Dead nigga blvd 
So young motherfuckers can 
Drive down it in your fancy cars 
Free 
You try to hold on to some africa of the past 
One must remember 
It's other africans 
That helped enslave your ass 
'cause everybody's 
Just trying to make that dollar 
Remember what jesse used to say? 
I am somebody 
No longer do i blame others 
For the way that we be 
'cause niggas need to redefine 
What it means to be free 

I can't even tell my brothers and sisters 
That they're fine 
This absence of beauty 
In their heart and mind 
Stopped breastfeeding the child 
You put 'em on the cow 
And now you wonder why they act wild 
You see brown folks are the 
Keepers of the earth 
Unifiers of the soul and mind 
Not these wannabe-gotti pimps and thugs 
Wearing diamond watches 
From african slave mines 

Perhaps to be free 
Is to all love those who hate me 
And die a beautiful death 
And make pretty brown babies 

You campaign for every 
Dead nigga blvd 
So y'all young motherfuckers can 
Drive down it in their fancy cars 
You try to hold on to some africa of the past 
Then one must remember 
It's other africans 
That helped enslave your ass 
Everybody's trying to make that dollar 
Remember what jesse used to say? 
I am somebody 
No longer do i blame others 
For the way that we be 
'cause niggas need to redefine 
What it means to be free 

You campaign for every 
Dead nigga blvd 
Just trying to make that dollar 
So y'all young motherfuckers can 
Drive down it in your fancy cars 
You try to hold on to some africa of the past 
Then one must remember 
It's other africans 
That helped enslave your ass 
'cause everybody's 
Trying to make that dollar 
Remember what jesse used to say? 
I am somebody 
No longer do i blame white folks 
For the way that we be 
'cause niggas need to redefine 
What it means to be 
Free.

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