can the sub_bass speak?
Singer:algiers
niggas don't know how to act
what style of music do you play?
what kind of music do you play?
what do you call that music?
how do you mix all these genres together?
why do you mix all these genres together?
it's kinda like gospel-punk
i like the punk but i don't like the soul
i like the soul but i don't really like the punk
but why do you have to make it ugly?
you don't even know what your sound is
you don't know how to act
all these niggas don't know how to act
where you really from in africa?
you look like your ancestors might have come from mali
i spent a summer there once and you look like them
that's not your real voice
why do you talk like that?
you don't really dress like that
you don't really talk like a black guy
you're black but you ain't really black
you don't really act black
you're more a negro than a nigga
and you're pretty cool for a nigga but you ain't really a nigga
you know what i'm sayin'?
you know that chris rock sketch where he says
that there's a difference between black people and niggas?
why are you allowed to say it but we can't say it?
you don't really know how to act
all you niggas don't really know how to act
how does it feel to be a black man making white music?
a middle aged black man observing young white people
shout the n-word to rap songs
a 35 year old black man observing young white people
shout the n-word to rap songs
they're bombastic but to the point of kitsch
even though the issues at hand are a matter of life and death
never mentioning the name
of victims of racially motivated violence
the effect is weirdly impersonal
you ain't got gold in your mouth
you ain't never been in jail
you're too old and too inauthentic
you don't know how to act
all you niggas don't know how to act
i love what you do but i wish you would just get off
of the identity politics and start talking about structural politics
you know who you remind me of?
you remind me of tv on the radio
you remind me of fishbone
you remind me of gary clark jr
you remind me of bad brains
you remind me of living colour
you remind me of lenny kravitz
you know who you look like?
you look like laurence fishburne
you look like forest whitaker
you look like paul george
you look like denzel washington
you look like that cat from 24
what? i'm just trying to be nice
all you niggas don't know how to act
all you niggas don't know how to act
you know i love black girls
i fucked a black girl once
one of my best friends was a nigga when i was growing up
and we used to play basketball together
and he could jump and run so fast 'cause he had an extra muscle
y'all got an extra muscle in your leg
you got it from when you was runnin' from the slave masters
but you niggas still don't know how to act
all you niggas don't know how to act
you know what black music is
i love old school hip-hop
when white people dance to your music at shows?
did you used to be a preacher?
that's the home of trap music
but you know bob dylan created rap
you niggas don't know how to act
michael jackson's thriller got best new nigga
but you still don't know how to act
all you niggas don't really know how to act
get back to where you once belonged