Everyday I ask myself these questions
And I always end up with one simple answer

Why every time a brother go in a convenience store
I always see the workers be watching me?
Why every time I get scared when the police are coming near my car
Whenever they be stopping me?
Why every time I come around, grab my seat to settle down
Some people always tend to walk away?
Why every time I take a jog outside people they stop
Snatch their purses just to walk the other way?
When I'm chilling with a group of my brothers that I salute
Why do people assume I gang bang?
Why they hate to see me good, just to make it out the hood
When all I'm try'na do is maintain?
Why is being a deadbeat, a gangsta in the streets
Rapping and shooting are my main stereotypes?
Why when I party in my home, neighbours picking up the phones
Call the laws just to scare me on sight?
Why does a white boy gets a gun, shoots people for fun
And does less time in the penitentiary?
But when I do the same thing, everybody know my name
And I end up doing a quarter century?
Why they scared to see me mad, laugh at me when I'm sad
Why it's hard for me to get a 9 to 5?
If I get caught for slanging dope, making money from my folks
Why would they lock me up for drugs that they supplied?
Why I get called the N.I.double G.E.R.
By racist people making me feel attacked?
If I had signed a record deal, use my music to be real
Why would the owners wanna change the way I act?
Why am I taught how to hate, within my own race
Like robbing and killing my own kind?
Why I'm considered a fool, if I drop out of school
When the teachers be teaching lies in my mind?
Why would they rob me from our roots, and hide me from the truth?
Why celebrate a month of my history?
Why they mocking my culture brand, taking over our land
And we get nothing in return but misery?
Why am I treated like a slave, even to this day
Being hated for the color of my skin?
Why did I pass my degree, for my plans to succeed
And these oppressors still don't wanna see me win?
Why is my fear as a male is to be dead or in jail?
Why do I get called out for being a snitch?
Why do I fear for my health, at a clinic check up?
Why I degrade my women call them a trick?
Why every time I speak my truth and this is what I do
You wanna flips my words or use me as a threat?
Why do I get lack of support from my city of course
Can't you see that I'm try'na be at my best?
Why am I allowed to stand up for this country
When this country won't even stand up for me?
Why do I hate being broke, why I love to stay woke?
But you rather put me to sleep?

Everyday I ask myself these questions
And I always end up with one simple answer
Because I'm Black