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Helicopter

by SOL Development

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Somebody tell America we're on to your game.... We have historicized and contextualized your behavior toward black and brown bodies, so we know your surveillance is nothing new. ✔

We know militarized policing is nothing new. ✔

We know your riot gear is nothing new. ✔

We know your fake news and distractions is nothing new.✔ We know you dropped a bomb on your own people in Philadelphia in May of 1985. ✔
But we also know we are MORE... More than fear you've carried.
More than the Black lives you've buried.
We are #SOLDevelopment a Source Of Light these dark times.

Be on the looking for the debut album from SOL Development coming this Fall 2018.

© 2018 SOL DVLPMNT, LLC.

lyrics

Verse 1:
You see these Helicopters
Think we thugs, we pimps, we robbers
But we are teachers, preachers, knowledge seekers, lawyers, doctors
They tell you lock your doors, your stores, and hide your sons and daughters
But we are here to bring the truth
With that, they have a problem

Chorus:
And we runnin' from Helicopters
He-He-Helicopters
And we runnin' from hella coppers
in helicopters x 2

Rap Verse 1:
Picture me rollin’
In a slave shit that was stolen
To my homeland I am going
Leaving land that was stolen
This freedom ain’t no freedom and you know it
The cops will pull a trigger in a moment
You just another n*gga in that moment
You bout to be a victim in that moment
Hashtag with your picture in a moment
The moment that an athlete say that black lives matter
Twitter quick to call him n*gga in that moment
This shit is for real
Too late to be safe so I say what I feel
To hurt to be fake so I say what is real
You cannot relate to what black people
cause you don’t understand that don’t make it less real
Too stuck in your head when your heart need to feel
The pain that we carry is real
Pressure is building for real
This ain’t no movie or reel
This pressure could kill

Pre-Chorus:
Helicopter, helicopter over my head
I see them lights they flashin' blue and that red
They chase us down the street
And they shootin' us dead
Cuz they don’t understand
That we are more than they said (more than they said)

Chorus x 2

Rap verse 3:
Shit I’m tired of duckin from these helicopters,
I know they plottin tryna bomb us while the world watchin’
Bmore to ferguson, them devils ain’t got shit to prove
1985, Philly dropped a bomb on Move
If you runnin, then they gunnin, better know the rules
Same roots, same noose, same strange fruit
Same clan, same badge, same aim too
They fear you, then they frame you, they kill you, then they blame you…
Ooooh, gotta watch out for the planes too
My prayers go out to syria, we say your names too,
Cuz the same hate that we been facin’ is the same hate that bomb they nation but you dont hear me though,
Show me a place where it’s safe for our kids to grow,
The cops shot Tamir Rice at 11 years old.
And I’m not sayin’ it’s the same thing, I just understand the trauma that the pain bring.
Peace King (Exactly)

Pre-chorus

Vamp:
We are more
Than the fear that you carry
We are more
Than black lives you've buried
We are more
Than anything you could dream
Which is probably the reason why these Helicopters chasing me...

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released June 8, 2018
Written by: Lauren Adams, Karega Bailey, and Felicia Gangloff-Bailey

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