Rebels No Savage - Matter Too Lyrics

Hey black child
Do you know who you are?
Who you really are?
Do you know you can be what you want to be
If you try to be what you can be
Hey black child
Do you know where you’re going?
Where you’re really going?
Do you know you can learn?

Yeah
Tell me what it takes to be the boss, I paid the cost
I was feeling blessed: mass, churches, synagogues
Tell me who we supposed to call?
Neighbors couldn’t help us, and the police killing everybody
Everybody who’s anybody, plenty on plenty bodies
Records been scratching over
Governments taking over positions and making orders
I think I feel safer inside my head
I think I feel safer living in places where niggas who Look like me don’t end up dead
But fuck it that’s everywhere, that’s just America
Power in numbers but we just mentally outnumbered
Yeah, and I can see the changes
Happening in front of us but still we feel the dangers
I was in America, I could tell it’s hell tho
Slavery was simply disguised as correction
Hell no, Fuck that
This a different time we in
I was in the 6th grade, black man sworn in

Minimal progress
Black men need to die less
Babies need to cry less
But they cry still, I digress
My niggas still matter tho
Politics don’t matter tho
All the shit that we battle through
Tell me who do we matter to?
All the shit that we battle through
Tell me who do we matter to?

Hey black child
Do you know you are strong?
I mean really strong
Do you know you can do what you want to do?
(All the shit that we battle through, tell me who do we matter to?)

Deeper state of thought, swear shit is real spooky
And this verse is sounding like this all came from a movie
Life is a game, fuck it this my Call of Duty
Why you questioning my life? It’s all here in the music
People wanna know how they should feel about it
Man I don’t even know, how can we talk about it?
And I don’t know how some y’all can even walk around it
But all my people live in fear and some of y’all been blessed without it
I got plenty friends saying they gone ride for me
I got plenty friends saying they would die for me
But deep inside do you want the same life for me?
Or are your Instagram posts just a lie to me?
If I walked past you would you double back, turn around?
If I smiled at you would you even crack a smile?
If I went to college is it only ‘cause I’m athletic?
Walking around in hell, got us locked up for inhaling (ah)

Hey black child
Be what you can be
Learn what you must learn
Do what you can do
And tomorrow your nation
Will be what you want it to be

All the shit that we battle through, tell me who do we matter to?