Black Skin for Sheets

 I've heard tales about life in those sun down cities. Don't get caught after dark cuz the sight won't be pretty. It got gritty when they snatched you up, rope choking your pride. A grimace on their face when they rule suicide. 

And I'm not from the South, but I can relate. Same story with a twist got me checking the date. 'Cuz I live in Philly where them guns like to bust. The murders in the city reached 500 plus!! In a land where the Klan look like us! 

See its hard to tell them apart could be your neighbor up the street. In Philly where the Klan wears Black skin instead of sheets. And they don't use rope but will choke you with your chain, just to get a lil bit of your change and women get raped on trains. No back wood lynching but they roll backwoods in the kitchen, say they're smoking on their ops. Then we protest the cops. 

And I stay far away from them boys in blue, cuz they snatch us up too, say everyone looks like you. Everyone fits the description from their hair to their sneaks. In a city where the Klan wears Black skin for sheets. 

Got you thinking that's your brotha', thinking that's your mans? Whole time this nigga OT, employee for the Klan. Snatching babies from their Mothers like they did back then. And everyone screams "NO SNITCHING" til its your kin. Power 99 say, "stop the violence, increase the peace", but then play Lil Durk bragging about poppin' his piece. 

'Cuz the Grand Wizard writes the checks and hides in the cut while they people claim they're hurting but don't really give a f*ck. Yeah those sun down cities don't have shit on us! Not Philly where we leave your brain scattered in the dust...in broad daylight with all the cameras watching. Face on Tv Y'all ninjas better than me!

I see passed the knappy hair and melanated exterior. Sun  shining bright but the days are getting drearier. We've gotten used to the killings and we are all immune. Got me thinking about selling balloons. Cuz we release them by the dozens screaming "gone too soon"

From the babies to the elders can't even walk down the street. Lest your get got by the Klan wearing Black skin for sheets.

-Hatshepsut