U, Black Maybe Lyrics - Common

(feat. Bilal) 

[Hook] 

Can't come around 

They gon' wanna bring you down 

No one knows just what's inside 

Doing dope and doing time 

Why they messing with your mind 

Black maybe... 

[Common] 

I heard a white man's yes 

Is a black maybe 

I was delivered in this world 

As a crack baby 

Hard for me to pay attention 

And I act crazy 

Gotta get over from the tip 

I watch the fat lady sing a song 

On how we guerillas in warfare 

And I'm the kingest kong 

They say we dreamin wrong 

Them same strips that them older cats lingered on 

Now the walgreens is gone 

Hope is killed fiends are born 

We leanin on a wall that ain't that ain't stable 

Its hard to turn on the hood that made you 

To leave We afraid to the same streets that raised you 

Can aid you. What other black births came suit 

the rage up in harlem and the southside 

Brothers is starving with there mouth wide open 

Floating across state got the workout plans so they can move weight 

The fate of the black man, woman, and child maybe 

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[Hook - 2X] 

[Common] 

He had game since he used to hoop at chattum 

Neither the ghetto nor defenders could trap him 

The stones had his back and they'd pat him 

He was living a life they couldn't fathom 

Colleges getting at him with all type of scholarships 

Even if he went they knew he'd leave college quick 

For the pros the one from the hood that was chose 

The black rose that grew in the jungle 

But humble stud still had rumble in his blood 

Women all around giving him trouble love 

You know the love when you up they down 

Cause you wrap a ball they round 

Your win is their crown 

Dudes in the circle he known for years 

Shared beers and cheers but chose different careers 

when paper and fame came they ain't know how to react 

Them same studs shot him in the back 

Now that's black... maybe 

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[Hook - 2X] 

[Common - talking] 

When we talk about black maybe 

We talk about situations 

Of people of color and because you are that color 

You endure obstacles and opposition 

And not all the time from... from other nationalities 

Sometimes it come from your own kind 

Or maybe even your own mind 

You get judged.you get laughed at.you get looked at wrong 

You get sighted for not being strong 

The struggle of just being you 

The struggle of just being us.black maybe 

black maybe... 

[Hook]