𝑨 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 1er EP de Goldencut le 4 février. Lien vers les plateformes de streaming : bfan.link/a-nation-of-the-people www.goldencutband.com Page Facebook : www.facebook.com/goldencutband Page Instagram : www.instagram.com/goldencutband LYRICS: It’s the drop of water that makes the glass overflow A rage that grows hard as the rocks we throw Trigger cocked back, stocked, lock and loaded The powder keg’s fuse ain’t lit, it already exploded a nation of the people, by the people and for people whose slaves’ labor only ever served their greed captured, middle-passaged, stuck in ghettoes and can’t leave from Staten Island to Minnesota they can’t breathe but are berated, brutalized, beaten until they bleed does death hurt more when filmed and shown on TV? now who’s offended by Kaepernick taking a knee? those who can’t understand the flames in precinct 3 a nation of the people that’s never been one people always been separate never been equal a nation of the people built for white power underneath white sheets sniffing white gun powder a nation of the people that packs blacks in prisons that are private and denies it’s rising fascism a nation of the people democracy devoured by confederate cowards who bitch and shout louder 4 centuries of systemic oppression, Jim Crow voter suppression, murder in custody, death row all this violence, this silence, this system where victims’ bodies lie in the street at the feet of those sworn to uphold the laws/ but break ‘em at every turn? while some mourn, others scorn, the social contract’s been torn lynched, whipped, hunted, crosses burned at the stake with the approval of or at the hands of the state a nation of the people that’s never been one people always been separate never been equal a nation of the people built for white power underneath white sheets sniffing white gun powder a nation of the people that packs blacks in prisons that are private and denies it’s rising fascism a nation of the people democracy devoured by confederate cowards who bitch and shout louder no quotes in textbooks from poor black folk US history is based on what rich whites wrote spreading the fable that each and everyone is able to get ahead, get fed, get a roof and a bed we must just be just instead of judge and distrust discuss differences and listen, not look on in disgust civilians are bumrushed and cussed out by corrupt cops. we can’t stop ‘til all that is unjust is crushed stand in defiance of the sirens cause silence is compliance manifest against more of the same state-sponsored violence by an institution asked to protect and to serve when will the meek receive the protection they deserve? a nation of the people that’s never been one people always been separate never been equal a nation of the people built for white power underneath white sheets sniffing white gun powder a nation of the people that packs blacks in prisons that are private and denies it’s rising fascism a nation of the people democracy devoured by confederate cowards who bitch and shout louder #Goldencut #Hiphop #Rap

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