Walkin' down on 42nd Street
Heard some white folks talkin'
"Had a riot yesterday, ten n***as died"
Die n***a!
"Say what? Ten n***as died?"
"Yeah"
Die n***a!
Went down to Whitehall Street
Heard a sergeant reportin'
"Lots'a n***as dying in Viet Nam"
Die N***a!
Die N***a!
N***a die!
Had to get away from n***as dying all the time
Went back up to Harlem
Heard a school teacher say
"N***as sure are dumb, almost like they're dead"
Die n***a!
Everywhere you go
N***as dying
N***as been dying for 400 years
N***as dying with conked heads
N***as dying in Ivy League suits
N***as know how to die, been dying for 400 years
Been practicing how to die
N***as dying in prisons
N***as dying on farms
N***as dying in dirty rooms
Even learned how to die in mansions now
Big office building, fancy dying
N***as love dying
Build big funeral homes so dead n***a undertaker get rich burying dying N***as
Die n***a!
N***as always tryin' to die
N***as get shot
Die n***a!
N***as get hung
Die n***a!
N***as get lynched
Die n***a!
N***as get tarred and feathered
N***as get boiled in oil
N***as get carried out of their own homes
N***as watch their wives get raped
Watch their babies get stomped
Then n***as watch some red-necked honky stand over them laugh
Laughing!
Talkin' 'bout
Die n***a!
Actually laughing!
Wine bottle in his hand, cigar in his mouth
Laughing!
Talkin' 'bout
Die n***a!
"Well go on and die n***a, you been dying for 400 years"
N***as know how to die
N***as don't know nothing else but dying
N***as dream 'bout dying
N***as plan beautiful lives, for when they're dead
Die n***a!
N***a preachers tell n***as 'bout heaven
Got to die first
Die n***a!
N***as love dying
N***as watch dying on T.V
They love it
N***as watch other n***as die
They love it
N***as watched Emmett Till die
N***as watched Mack Parker die
N***as watched James Chaney die
N***as watched Bobby Hutton die
N***as watched Medgar Evers die
N***as watch n***as die
N***as watch n***as die
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
N***as die!
Die n***ars!
So black folks can take over!