I don’t gotta back 400 years
i can go back 2 weeks and the message still clear
That the outcries and tears falling on deaf ears and its clear
Knees on necks instilling fear
Feeling like Bugs Bunny and its rabbit season
Elmer Fudd’s with a badge and a bag of reasons
To bag any nigger the bigger the badder
Ask a question and the trigger’s the answer
They squeeze out a life watch the piss out his badder
Baptize the Minneapolis pavement in a matter
Of 9 minutes death sentence signed and finished
In 9 minutes they took the life of a menace
A father a menace, a brother a menace
A son a menace my color a life sentence
Threatened by my very existence complex
Walk out my door daily wondering yo, “Am I Next?”

Oh say can you see…
Your blood stained banner with them stars not meant for me
You proudly hail at the twilight
That you don’t mind taking my life, yeah
Could really give a fuck about rights
Cause you don’t really value my life

Am I next to be faced down
Next in a choke hold
Next to be chased down
Shot till my toes cold
Am I mean to be the next Emmett Till
Eric Garner or George Floyd a void to be filled
The next new martyr
A hashtag so we can march harder
A temporary revolution starter
A Black man doing all that I can to stay breathing
I just wanna live like Keedron
(I’m a young Black man)
But put my life on the line for a brother if I see him
In need cause I need him to live too
I don’t ever plan to pull out a phone cam and start shooting
I’m a ram right through his body cam and up root him
Either we both gonna live or we both gonna die
But I couldn’t live with myself if I ain’t try
A muse for a mural hashtag through a text
Dream and a nightmare same breath thinking “Am I Next?”

Oh say can you see…
Your blood stained banner with them stars not meant for me
You proudly hail at the twilight
That you don’t mind taking my life, yeah
Could really give a fuck about rights
Cause you don’t really value my life

Oh say can you see…
Your blood stained banner with them stars not meant for me
You proudly hail at the twilight
That you don’t mind taking my life, yeah
Could really give a fuck about rights
Cause you don’t really value my life