This is a verse for my friend Ricky Brown, an African-American student who came to my high school from a really bad high school in an impoverished neighborhood called Maywood outside of Chicago...Ricky got unjustly kicked out of school because of where he came from...
Yo, this is some shit I had to get off of my chest
Segregation still exists for those who don’t know it yet
Jobs don’t run background checks on River Forest kids
But if you’re tan-faced they runnin’ to get files from Central Intelligence
This is living proof for those who think I’m a fool
My mans Ricky was bein’ too black so they kicked him outta high school
That might just be my perception but they didn’t even check his record
First offense, zero tolerance for black kids with protection
Imagine if it woulda happened to me, I wouldn’t have gotten expelled
Maybe slapped on the wrist and back in class before the lunch bell
Just as well, he did have a blade inside of his jeans
But anybody who knew him couldn’t say he would use it fiendishly
Board of Education is patiently waiting to kick him out for good
Just cuz he went to Provisio East and lived in an impoverished neighborhood
What the fuck is this? Land of ignorant greed, home of the slaves
Cuz they’ve already deported anybody who was truly brave
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