Lyrics Vince Staples

Vince Staples

Progressive 3

Yeah, back and blacker than ever

Got sick of waiting for these actors to get it together

Still in them gutters, all my brothers is birds of a feather

Tried to get this money cause my people done struggled forever

Son of my father, gunning for stardom, it's worth a shot

They hate me like I'm fucking their mama, that's why I serve 'em hot

Shells they burning, as long as hell is burning I’ll murder God

If he was trying to fuck up my paper, nigga, that's all I got

The black and brown been going through a holocaust

You see Obama just a house nigga to me

They locked the children up in prison and they ditching the key

It's empty plates in this estate so shorty shit where he eat

He got a clip, he got a K, he ‘bout to light up the street

They catch him slipping, now they trip him knock him right off his feet

His mama crying on the news like "that boy was so smart

Wish he never start chilling with them niggas at the park"

Been swimming with the sharks since the kiddy pool

Breaking all the written rules

Breaking the tradition of that inner-city raising fools

A raisin in the sun

They let the monkey out the cage, he got a gun

He got a book, he got a brain, you better run

Was the one that they shun

Baptized in the tears of the slaves as a young

A penny saved is a penny earned

So I'll be stacking up this copper as the city burn

Cold chain, nigga

Yeah, just sit and look at where they raised us at

Seen black, same crack, so they gave us that

Give us hope then take us back

To the 1800's with these rap contracts

And they wonder why niggas get shot, coke sit in the pot

He can't get no job so he hitting the block

And if that nigga getting money while them niggas sitting hungry

Ten times out of ten bet them niggas gon' plot

We just struggle with survival trying to rise to the top

When your life is on the line fuck what's right and what's not

You got a right to the dream, whether it's triple beam or Martin Luther's

My chain heavy, is you ready for that revolution?