Mike the Mentor - Rhymefest/Michael Jackson (迈克尔·杰克逊)

Ay Mike I got something on my mind that

It's really been bugging me

And I need some advice

Can you just like just sit

And just mentor me for a second

Sure

Well you know I

I'm tryna come up in the rap game

And I wanna be like you

Iconically music wise but you know with hip hop

It's kinda like if you ain't shootin' people

Or sellin' a lotta d**e it's like

You not hood you not black enough

You not and

And I don't know what to do you knahmsayin'

I don't know what to

That's the most ridiculous horrifying story I've heard

It's crazy the more often a person tell a lie

The more times you hear a lie

I mean you begin to believe it

You know what that's true G

But it's like when radio plays it all the time

And the TV plays it all the time

And they tell you

You're not black you know

If you don't do this like

How did you overcome everything people said about you

Like not being urban enough or not being black enough

I'm a black American I'm proud

To be a black American

I am proud of my race

I am proud of who I am

I have a lot of pride of who I am and dignity

Yeah that's cool

But sometimes I feel embarrassed to be black

G like I'm ashamed to say it

But how do other cultures look at us

How do other races perceive how we treat ourselves

Well let's reverse it

What about all the millions of people

Who sit out in the sun

Become darker to become other than

What they are nobody says nothing about that

Yeah I mean you right

I can't even argue with you

You got a point on that man

Well I'ma kick it like this

Uh uh are we animals some suggest

We was better as slaves with chains on our chest

Nothin' on our brains no a's on the test

Yo mike can we make it out the ghetto man yes

Uh what it do what you do if it's you

They gave us hot water we learned to make stew

We had no money we learned to make due

Yo mike was you born poor like me it's true

I bet you should come back to the hood

See everything we built out of what we could

Limited resources but from where I stood

You would still look at it and say good that's good

Look you from gary I'm from Chicago

We both should go back two days from tomorrow

I don't care how we get there plane or trolly

They need money mike c'mon man I'm sorry

This can't just be words gotta be action

We love the people and they need satisfaction

We on the road but we gotta get some traction

I'm rhymefest and his name is Michael Jackson