White Man's Burden-Promoe

[ti:White Man's Burden] [ar:Promoe] [al:White Man's Burden] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.27]White Man's Burden - Promoe [00:03.80] [00:24.00]I grew up on some [00:24.88]Hardcore rap sh*t battle [00:26.47]Spit back to back [00:27.80]F**k the wack sh*t [00:29.09]It was all gangsta rap [00:30.40]And political black power [00:32.26]Once a week I'd tape radio's rap hour [00:34.66]Way before I thought [00:35.61]About a hidden agenda [00:36.73]I was hatin' my white skin [00:38.47]And hatin' my gender [00:39.61]Didn't wanna represent [00:40.68]Rapists and murderers [00:42.30]The white man's burden [00:43.29]Is not what you heard it is [00:44.85] [00:45.58]It ain't about a mission [00:46.68]To christian the heathens [00:47.67]But it's connected to [00:48.55]That vision of us as superior [00:50.02]Beings [00:50.63]And the world's darkest history [00:52.58]His story is my story [00:54.32]It ain't no mystery [00:55.41] [00:55.96]Why our children [00:56.86]Seeking chemical relief [00:58.20]Infected by our parents' [00:59.61]Old cynical beliefs [01:01.31]Inherited like a genetical disease [01:03.51]Somebody help me please man [01:05.12]I wanna be released [01:05.94] [01:06.45]I can't carry the weight [01:07.90]I can't bear the burden [01:09.42]My heritage's too heavy [01:10.73]For my shoulders [01:11.59]Can't burry the hate it [01:13.40]Bubble up to the surface [01:14.65]And history repeat itself all over [01:17.11]Can't carry the weight [01:18.42]I can't bear the burden [01:20.03]My heritage's too heavy [01:21.15]For my shoulders [01:22.09]I can't bury the hate it [01:23.76]Bubble up to the surface [01:25.33]Now listen [01:25.82] [01:26.84]Man I grew up in a little [01:28.55]A** middle class town [01:29.89]In the middle of nowhere [01:31.41]Bitter and so scared [01:32.36] [01:32.94]And just like everybody else [01:34.40]I was hiding it well [01:35.48]Some couldn't keep it inside [01:36.81]Well they were either in [01:37.82]Jail [01:38.07]Or searching for life [01:39.10]In the bottles and pills [01:40.19]Some tried then commited suicide [01:42.22]When it failed [01:42.92]'Cus when the black cloud's [01:44.58]Filling your lungs [01:45.45]You don't need to speak German [01:47.14]To know the meaning of [01:48.05]Angst [01:48.69]The hate the blame the razor blades [01:50.62]The sedatives are your only relatives [01:53.41]We take the blame [01:54.99]For the grave mistakes [01:55.92]And we cannot live [01:57.22]With our lonely heritage [01:58.42]And you might feel like [01:59.70]I ain't grateful thinkin' I'm [02:00.86]Hitchin' [02:01.03]'Cus I supposedly got it all [02:02.69]But my skin is like itchin' [02:03.56]And as the bread [02:04.79]Of sorrow fills my belly [02:06.47]I chew and swallow [02:08.14]But still feel empty 'cus [02:09.73]I can't carry the weight [02:11.18]I can't bear the burden [02:12.73]My heritage's too heavy [02:13.93]For my shoulders [02:15.08]Can't burry the hate it [02:16.63]Bubble up to the surface [02:17.94]And history repeat itself all over [02:20.40]I can't carry the weight [02:21.73]I can't bear the burden [02:23.22]My heritage's too heavy [02:24.51]For my shoulders [02:25.68]Can't burry the hate it [02:27.23]Bubble up to the surface [02:28.55]And history repeat itself all over [02:30.18]As our children growin' up [02:31.68]In a white supremacy [02:33.01]I ain't waiting for the backlash [02:34.60]I fight the legacy [02:35.68]'Cus it seems like [02:36.55]They got another wolf-owitz [02:38.48]For wolf-enson and both of which [02:40.94] [02:41.55]Are from the wolf pack tuggin' at our rear [02:43.71]Together with hawks eagle [02:45.33]Dragon and the bear [02:46.29]Slightly changed terminology [02:47.60]But the same old [02:48.47]Philosophy [02:49.03]This time their atrocities [02:50.24]In the name of democracy [02:51.85]For the savages that haven't yet squired [02:54.15]The wisdom then I stop to think [02:56.09]Who am I in this [02:56.97]System [02:57.52]It f**ks me up when [02:58.92]I'm thinkin' it through [02:59.92]Then I cheer up 'cus [03:00.81]I'm thinkin' of you [03:01.93]And if you can love me [03:03.53]I can love me [03:05.24]We can change [03:06.06]We can fight the ugly [03:07.46]And you gave me these [03:08.91]I hear your words [03:09.88]When I speak 'cus you ease [03:11.43]And you share my burden [03:13.11]And I can carry the weight [03:14.54]When we share the burden [03:15.93]Ain't nothing that's too heavy [03:17.22]For my shoulders [03:18.27]We can conquer the hate [03:19.86]We bring it up to the surface [03:21.33]And listen to what history done told us [03:23.48]I can carry the weight [03:25.00]When we share the burden [03:26.59]Ain't nothing that's [03:27.37]Too heavy for my shoulders [03:28.84]We can conquer the hate [03:30.37]We bring it up to the surface [03:31.78]And listen to what history done told us [03:33.95] [03:35.13]What history done told us [03:37.30] [03:37.85]What history done told us [03:39.91] [03:40.99]History done told us [03:42.77] [03:43.90]Done told us [03:44.99] [03:54.41]Come on