🎵 please let me testify (Testify Freestyle) // by dread scott

3 Contributorsplease let me testify (Testify Freestyle) Lyrics [Intro: James Baldwin] If we were White If we were Irish If we were Jewish, if we were Poles If we had, in fact, in your mind a frame of reference Our heroes would be your heroes, too Nat Turner would be a hero for you instead of a threat Malcolm X might still be alive But, you know, when the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles Or the Irish, or any White man in the world Says, "Give mе liberty, or give me dеath" The entire White world applauds When a Black man says exactly the same thing, word for word He is judged a criminal and treated like one And everything possible is done To make an example of this bad nigga So there won't be any more like him [Verse 1: dread scott] I talked to god, but he ain't tell me much The devil gripping on my shoulder with a healthy clutch I muscle up because the shells'll bust The block is hot, that's why them cells see us Ayo, it's death before dishonor, never call a judge your honor, bruh Behead the king and make a soccer ball for my commoners My UZI weigh a Huey new-ton, you can check the barometer But Kamala would rather see us in a cell like mitochondria We lighting candles every week, a different Hanukkah Police is on the the streets, they rolling deeper than the mafia An ounce of weed is all they need to put it in ya yamaka But we know who really moving the keys like a Yamaha [Hook: dread scott and Honey Cone] Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (I got the shotgun, I got the briefcase) Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (It's all in the game though, right?) Please let me testify [Verse 2: dread scott & JAY-Z] I'm outta kindness I'm tired o' spineless liars, your highness, your iris biased We riot 'cause testifiers accuse us and gentrify us I'm shooting, don't test this fire, I prove it with rocket science I ain't rocking with the master's plan, from three fifths, we still half a man I'm packing in my bag again, they pack us in the back of vans Attacking on Afghanistan, they strapping for the Taliban But slap me with a half a mill' for bail because I'm African [Hook: dread scott and Honey Cone] Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (I got the shotgun, I got the briefcase) Before you lock my love away, before you lock my love away (It's all in the game though, right?) Please let me testify