Shades Of Blue - Vic Mensa

Written by：Victor Mensah/Alex "Papi Beatz" Baez/Darian Garcia/Carter Lang

Color of morning pee coming out of the sink

It's 2016 who would think

Kids in america don't have clean water to drink

Like they cut the ebt took 'em off of the link

I read a story about a woman with her daughter in flint

She got lead poisoning from showers in the morning

When the governor switched out the pipes to bring the water in

To the city river cause he said they can't afford to get clean water

So now the poor people get the shorter end

Of the stick ain't that some bullshit

Shorty thirsty he just bought his fourth fifth

It's lead in the water gun he dying from a full clip

Now you've got toddlers drinking toxic waste

While the people responsible still ain't caught no case

I don't get it man I just ain't wit it man

They got damn daniel distracting you on instagram

Back again with the all-white media coverage

They do it over and over like remedial subjects

The people with the least always gotta pay the most

We the first to go when they deleting them budgets

Can a ni**a get his basic human rights

Is that too much to ask should I say it more polite

And everybody broke so we in the same boat

But would they let that b**ch sink if we was white

It got me shades of blue

Rain or shine it's all blue it's all blue

Ain't no sun it's all blue it's all blue

Purple haze in a daze it's all blue it's all blue

Change gon' come it's all you it's all on you

It's all blue all blue

It's all blue all blue

The skies stay gray around my way around my way

Waking up to the morning sun in detroit

I'll be with the people when they come for the boy

Everybody tryna be american idols

My x-factor is I'm the only one with the voice

It's bigger than us these kids listen to us

That's why I give 'em that truth cause they don't get it enough

We making b**ches and hoes out our women too much

We can't trust ourselves and we don't know who to trust

It ain't enough for police to wear body cams

Cause niggas still gettin' tazed and body slammed

And cigarettes'll kill you on their own

But they'll kill you for a cigarette I honor eric garner fam'

I'm a part of him he a part of me

I'm a prodigy in these prada jeans

I'm tryna' make my partners a part of the election

So you ain't gotta presidential pardon me

And pardon me but why is it that the darker must suffer

How do we protect the culture from the vultures

There's a cold war every summer in the chi

It's a snowball effect from the cold war in russia

But vladimir putin ain't in the hood recruitin'

And derrick rose ain't the only one out here shootin'

They set fire to their own squad cars

And a b**ch on the news gon' blame it on the lootin'

Now here I am talking 'bout a revolution

And I can't even spare a dollar to the movement

But I'm in the strip club spending dollars on that movement

I guess we all got room for improvement

Rain or shine it's all blue it's all blue

Ain't no sun it's all blue it's all blue

Purple haze in a daze it's all blue it's all blue

Change gon' come it's all you it's all on you