Can’t a young boy wear a hoodie anymore?/
Tell police/ my bike/ they rammed into the floor/
Can I take the transit, travel on the BART?/
Come to meet me I don’t have a gun on/
March for Trayvon/ Vigil for Fong Lee/
I tell ya non-believers it’s deeper than the police/
Off to school one day to funeral Sunday/
We done heard all the loud gun shots, we used to it/
Hear the system’s fucked up, no one is locked up////
You could just kill somebody and YouTube it/
Only involuntary manslaughter man who knew this?/
If you could do better than Oscar Grant, would you do it?/
We’re tired of the killers loose, victims are children too/
One million hoodies look, we made it to the evening news/
Don’t say it’s not race, cause I embarrass you/
Shut the fuck up when you talk to me, ‘fore I embarrass you/
Can’t a young boy wear a hoodie anymore?/
Tell police/ my bike/ they rammed into the floor/
Can I take the transit, travel on the BART?/
Come to meet me I don’t have a gun on/
And the whole media wanna cover all of it/
Only man I respect is not Andersen/
And I’ll admit, I thought it was the end/
‘Round the same time that shit happened with Zimmerman/
Well that ain’t cool, man, deserve media attention/
Lucky I ain’t get my way, lock him up in prison/
This is familiar, Discrimination,
We in the coliseum, we know what race is/
Tired of the killers loose, victims are children too/
One million hoodies look, we made it to the evening news/
Don’t say it’s not race, cause I embarrass you/
Shut the fuck up when you talk to me, ‘fore I embarrass you/
Our movement/ no rest, no rest/
This is self-defense, we protest, protest/
Body chalk lines mapped, no arrests/
All that said, lemme ask this quest-’/
Can’t a young boy wear a hoodie anymore?/
Tell police/ our bikes/ they rammed into the floor/
Can we take the transit, travel on the BART?/
Come to meet us we don’t
Don’t say it ain’t race, We’ll mafuckin’ embarrass you/
Talking ‘bout clothes, We’ll mafuckin’ embarrass you/
Sayin’ you didn’t know, We’ll mafuckin’ embarrass you/
Way too cold/ I promise you need some Theraflu/
(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh) Get the Theraflu
(Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh) Get the Theraflu
(Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)
(Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh uh) Get the Theraflu
Rest in power
Trayvon Martin
Fong Lee
Oscar Grant
Sanford, Florida
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Oakland, California
The South
East Coast
Midwest
West Coast
United States of America
End Injustice
Stop Racism
No more caskets
Mothers and fathers,
Sisters and brothers
Sons and daughters
Civilians and officers
Judges and lawyers
No more tears
Trayvon Martin
Fong Lee
Oscar Grant
Rest in Power
Flip Image (Eddy M. Gana Jr.) is a spoken word artist and Hip Hop emcee from Union City, California. Residing in Los
Angeles, he is a community organizer of KmB, Pro-People Youth and a co-founder of Sunday Jump, an open mic series in Historic Filipinotown. Empowerment through stories, he believes in the therapeutic elements of self-expression for personal growth and greater social change....more