Black Zombie lyrics

[Nas]

Yo, you believe when they say we ain't shit, we can't grow?

All we are is dope dealers, and gangstas and hoes?

And you believe when they be telling you lie, all on the media?

They make the world look crazy to keep you inside?

Why you listen when the teachers at school

Know you a young single parent out struggling, they think you a fool

Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes

Killing shorty future, I wonder how do we last it?

Underground in they casket, ancestors turning

I'm learning something every day, there is no Lazarus

Words like God is Greek or Latin

So if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the masters

My niggas is chilling, getting high, relaxing

Envisioning, owning shit, yo it can happen

What do we own? Not enough land, not enough homes

Not enough banks, to give my brother a loan

What do we own? The skin on our backs, we run and we ask

For reparations, then they hit us with tax

And insurance if we live to be old, what about now?

So stop being controlled, we black zombies

[Hook: *sung*]

Walking talking dead, though we think we're living (black zombies)

We just copy-cat, following the system (black zombies)

Walking talking dead, though we think we're living (black zombies)

We just copy-cat, following the system (black zombies)

[Nas]

Aiyyo we trapped in our own brain, fuck behind bars

We've already gone insane

We've already gave up, cut our own heads offs

Stab our own backs and dream too much

Without fulfilling reality; too greedy and

Can't have one or two chains, we need three of them

Can't have one or two guns without squeezing 'em

On our own people and, fuck black leaders

Cause whites ain't got none leading them,the rhythm is cosmic

Nas is divinity, the deity's prophet

Let's all get down and get up

Victims walking 'round with Down's Syndrome, all stuck

Fainting, shouting, catching Holy Ghost in church

Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody doing it first

We begged, we prayed, petitioned and demonstrated

Just to make another generation - black zombies

[Hook]

[Nas]

You scared to be yourself, cause you in a trance

Feel free, hear the music and dance

If you cared what they think, why wear what they wear, just for you

Dumb niggas with long beards like they Arabs or Jews

Or from Israel, Bismillah al rahman al rahim

Islam's a beautiful thing

And Christian and Rastafari, helps us to bring

Peace against the darkness, which is unGodly

So what's the black man's true religion, who should we follow?

Use your own intuition, you are tomorrow

{​*roaring*}​ .. that's the sound of the beast

I'm a Columbia record slave, so get paid

Control your own destiny, you are a genius

Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie

[Hook]

[Nas]

Wake up! Black zombies in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years

Ghetto niggas won't have it no mo', can I get a witness?

Why listen to somebody else tell you how to do it

When you can do it yourself; it's all in you, do it, do it

Do it niggas..

• Artist:Nas