Recently re-listening to ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADASS by Joey Bada$$, from 2017. I want to share the last verse of AMERIKKKAN IDOL here, it’s even more bitterly accurate than it was back then.

What the government is doin’ amongst our people is downright evil

Disturbin’, but not surprisin’, that’s for certain

With all of the conflict of propaganda, I believe they are simply tryna slander

Start a Civil War within the USA amongst black and white, and those alike

They are simply pushin’ us to our limit, so that we can all get together and get with it

They want us to rebel, so that it makes easier for them to kill us and put us in jails

Alton Sterlings are happenin’ every day in this country and around the world

The scary part, boys and girls

Is most of these stories don’t make it to the news and reach mass consciousness

It is for sure time that we as a people stand up for acknowledgement

And accomplishment, of what we call human rights

It is time to rebel, better yet, raise hell

I just want everyone to be cautious about how they go about it

Because this is all part of the government’s plan and what they been plottin’

They’re literally beggin’ for this to happen, so they can kill us off

Usin’ uprisin’ and rebellion as the excuse in a timely fashion

The cancerous foods, the chemical warfare, economic sufferin’ is not workin’ fast enough

There are many steps ahead of us and manifestin’ the future that they want

We have to work together, not only rattlin’ them on a physical plane

But to outsmart them on an intellectual mental level the same

As black men, I think our gangs need to do a better job

At protecting us, the people, our communities

And not assistin’ in destroyin’ them brutally

It’s time to even the score

'Cause who do we call when the police break the law?

We are so quick to pick up a gun and kill one another

But not quick enough to pick it up and protect each other

The code words to killin’ a black man by police is, “He’s got a gun”

Damned if he do, damned if he don’t, damned if he runs

Or what about them? Them murderers got it

We need solutions, you better start plottin’ now

It’s always been clear that they don’t value our lives

My people been sufferin’ way too long

And I’m tired of singin’ the same old song

People actin’ like this shit isn’t happenin’, it’s downright wrong

Justice won’t be served by a hashtag, and that’s the very reason I ask that

What are we to do? We’re scattered around

With no clue of this ugly truth

All we know is who they ridiculed and who gets minisculed

Time to wake the fuck up and do our own research

And not form opinions based on just what we’ve heard

Ameri-K-K-K-a is force feedin’ you lies down your throats with a silver spoon

And eventually, we’ll all be doomed

Real, real, real soon