Can I Live

Please just let me live for two minutes They won't let me live, they're too wicked Voice inside my head got too vicious So can I live? I'm like Dum Ali Ali Ali (Ali Ali) For Nusrat Fateh Ali, Muhammad Ali and Makaveli Tryna put Pakis on the telly (uh) Growin' up there wasn't any, now we 24-7 Either ISIS or Emmys (grrt, one or the other) Watchin' Ramy sippin' Rémy, rep 'til they resent me Hope my people proud and don't forget me (be proud of) Hope my people don't just end up as a memory Eventually they wanna round us up like we cattle When I'm chattin' woke on a panel 'Cause we up the sticks with no paddle, but I'm brown as fuck, here to battle They told our story so we don't adore we Self hatin', face all bleached, got me at war with me Kill us or make a killin' off us (uh-huh) Drop a bomb or fairness products, yeah But that's finished, there's a million of us, yeah If you don't like it, here's a dick you can suck Please just let me live for two minutes They won't let me live, they're too wicked Voice inside my head got too vicious So can I live? (Can I live?) Was this part of the plan? Am I puttin' my foot down, or tap dancin' for the man? All the scars on my heart earned me 50 grand Unwanted by blondes, now they ask for a tan Sunblock up on my face, my people's blood on my hands My people floatin' face down, my people sinkin' in sand My people ain't niche, my people are the niche for His lamp They taught us cricket and shame, I'ma teach you to stand No man's land, I'm no land's man We just pose on the 'Gram and own Lambos and go like lambs They love this rubber dinghy rappin', bro, they all shake hands They want advice, I tell 'em, "Keep your Pak' passport stamped" These are the lands that keep us from reachin' a land That we can call ours, Rohingya, Uighur or yank It's deeper than that, I keep thinkin' we should go back But where the fuck we gonna go, bro? We got no land Grow up bumpin' Black Star, yeah, time for a brown one Fresh back on the boat, let's go, they want us out, son East and west are clashin', but cash is my only outcome Yeah, I'll go back home if you can tell me where I'm from