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Now a days There is no guarantee I’ll make it home Cause The value of my life is slim to none

The color of my skin It scares the men Who wear a badge And they’ll gun me down If they feel I’m a threat

Now a days The content of my character can’t speak Before they spill my blood out in the streets

And as it flows they make me into What they’re taught to think That I’m a thug and drug dealing machine

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Now a days

When we protest the injustice we live Somehow we get the blame for what they did

They gentrify our hoods And make them good then kick us out And wonder why we kick and scream and shout

Why so entitled Does your privilege bring you any shame We work twice as hard and more to have a say

And surely as the sun shines down On beautiful black skin No we will not back down and we will win

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And I believe that only we can save us So I’m counting on you To love yourself, your children, and your neighbor And know that God will always bring us through

They want to reduce us to a Black man and woman But they gotta understand we’re human And this world is ours just like it’s yours And we won’t be ignore

#Black Lives Matter

Honored to have our record named one of AllMusic's R&B albums of the year.

Can you please release the song in the recordbreakin presentation video?

Absolutely: https://recordbreakin.bandcamp.com/track/the-rhythm-feat-sarai-abdul-malik

Celebrating 15 years of Mama's Gun with a #soultronic tribute to Ms. Badu. www.okayplayer.com/news/erykah-badu-didnt-cha-know-columbia-nights-cover-mp3.html

#soultronic #Erykah #Badu #Mama's Gun

Thanks to @soul.bounce for the love, as always. #nodaysoff

#nodaysoff

Listening to a very special delivery from @recordbreakin. #vinyl #testpressing

#testpressing #vinyl

Much love to @andykellman at AllMusic.

Much love to @sweet_soul_records for holding us down with the #InAllThings Japan release. (And shouts to anyone able to translate these liner notes for us.)

#inallthings