Hand-Me-Downs

[Chorus] Come on say it loud

Look what we handed down

Don't it make you proud?

Look What we

Handed Down

Come on say it loud

Look what we handed down

Don't it make you proud?

Look What

We Handed

Down [Verse 1]

My mommy gave me

Donny Half-a-way

Young Gifted and

Black Amidst

The Positivity,

I wound to bring it back

But Rap now-a-days is by a bunch of ignorant cats

No young gifted and black

Just guns *****es and crack

I react by turning off

BET and Sambo's telling me what blackness is supposed to be

Used to give us world news now it's all videos replaced

Tavis Smiley with reality shows

If you let the

TV define what black is you think ice and violence is all we think that matters

I guess this is what happens when rappers look up to thugs

And kids look up to rappers

To some of y'all if

I don't talk about the gat enough

Or sell crack enough

I ain't black enough

But I rather be a pro at being myself

Than be an idiot trying to be somebody else, what [Chorus]

Come on say it loud

Look what we handed down

Don't it make you proud?

Look What we

Handed Down

Come on say it loud

Look what we handed down

Don't it make you proud?

Look What

We Handed

Down [Verse 2]

I'm at the bus stop with my bike

Been there for awhile

Mom's taught me how to catch this route when

I was a child -

Another kid walks up freakin up black and mild

Fifteen same age,

I learn shits wild

An older lady walks up greets us with a smile

Asks how we both doing and sits down

She knows what's it's like to grow up in the south

Civil Rights when the white's was hosing us down

I started thinking to myself that even though that time's were tougher

They still took timeout to speak to one another

But look at us, me and this young brother

Acting to proud to break down and speak to each other

So inside

I felt ashamed

Not sure of how to but

I wanna change

And as long as

I'm alive than the fact remains

That it's never too late for us to break the chains

Come on y'all [Chorus]

Come on say it loud

Look what we handed down

Don't it make you proud?

Look What we

Handed Down

Come on say it loud

Look what we handed down

Don't it make you proud?

Look What

We Handed

Down *scratching*

Things is bound to change...