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The world’s so crazy right now…
I feel like every time I look at my phone
Look at the… the news, f**king anywhere
I just see destruction…
And it's really not healthy at all
I feel like as black men we’ve
Always been raised and taught to be tough
That emotion is a sign of weakness but
sh*t, with everything that’s happening I…
I don't know man...

There’s a lot going on
So much going on
Don’t keep it all in
It’s okay to be alarmed
We were raised to be strong
We were told to speak up
We been forced to act okay
But we’re too hurt to be tough

Please let our black boys cry
(Black boys cry, black boys cry)
It’s okay to let our black boys cry
(Black boys cry, black boys cry)
Let it out young king

This brother lost his life and the whole world saw him die
We don’t see white people die on TV by the police
Why do we have to see that?
Why did it have to happen?

I’m angry, I’m frustrated
I’m personally feeling angry, frustrated, mad
But I’m still trying to peacefully protest

It's a war outside
People finally taking notice
We been fighting all our lives
This the only world we’re knowing
It feel like everyone against us
We’ve scrolled through social media
Seen everybody kill us
And it never gets no easier

Let black boys cry
(Black boys cry, black boys cry)
It’s okay to let our black boys cry
(Black boys cry, black boys cry)
Let it out young king

It’s sad, like just seeing police kill black people all the time
It’s, it’s like insane
Like you see it on the news, you see it everywhere
So it’s just - it’s just sad as hell

The times have always been hard
Spend most our lives looking for purpose and God
Or something better, from the womb we’ve faced impossible odds
Spend everyday trying to survive at the cost
Of falling victim to a racist tryna give themselves power
Or f**king Karen down the hall calling the cops every hour
Antagonizing then playing victim, surrounded by cowards who
Never wanna leave us be, this world will never be ours
That's how I’m feeling in this…
That's how I’m feeling in this world that really don’t want us in it
No matter what we’ll always carry the image
Of being thugs or someone with bad intentions
I pull my phone out my pocket and they will think it’s a weapon
No second guess, man they just fear for their lives
Just cuz of my appearance, I fear for mine
I seen the news, I’ve seen the countless bodies that's been taken by copper crimes
I’ve seen the son-less mothers yell and shout and break down and cry
When they get told their baby’s lost in the night
And then be forced to watch the footage over and over and over on every social
Network, black boys exposed to the way that they might just see it all end
With every share and retweet all we do is see it again
It’s never turning off we know the kind of world we live in
And it’s enough to make you
Cry

Just let our black boys cry
(Black boys cry, black boys cry)
Its okay to let our black boys cry
(Black boys cry, black boys cry)
Let it out young king

-Come here, come to me I understand! How old are you?
-I’m tired of this sh*t, man!
-How old are you!
-I’m forty-five years old!
-Forty-five and I’m thirty-one
-And I’m tired of seeing this sh*t, man!
-And you the older generation than me and I am too!
-Right! And we’ve been standing around as the older ones, taking all this bullsh*t! Always hoping for a kumbay-f**king-ya! Always standing around for a kumbaya, ain’t nobody coming to protect us! We gotta start our own f**king law!
-I understand! But let me tell you something right here. This sixteen year old? He’s sixteen!
-And they gon’ kill him next week!
-He’s sixteen!
-What we gonna do? What we gonna do?!
-You tell me! But this ain’t the way! Cuz they ready to let loose! If the United States President say if you loot we shoot, then you think doing this gonna help??
-I know it! But it’s time to stand up! At this point -
-So don’t get into it with him!
-At this point, I’m ready to die for what’s going on! That’s the problem that we got!
-Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something
What you see right now is gon’ happen ten years from now!
And at twenty-six, you gon’ be doing the same thing I’m doing!
You understand that? Ten years! You gon’ be right here too!
-But he also gotta stand up for what he gotta stand up for!
-So what I need y’all to do right now at sixteen… is come up with a better way
Cuz how we doing it? It ain't workin’
He’s angry at forty-six. I’m angry at thirty-one. You angry at sixteen
You understand me? Putting yourself in harm's way is not the way!
-I know it’s not!
-You and then all of your counterparts the same age and that have that same power
Y’all come up with a better way… cuz we ain’t doing it!
And I have a five-year-old son… and it ain’t happening!
I marched four years ago, Keith Lamont Scott
Did the same sh*t y’all doing! The SAME exact thing night after night after night
It don’t matter!
Come up with a better way
You understand me?
You keep yourself safe...

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