Lyrics If You Ain't Up on Things - Adam Prince

Yeah
This a vibe
Vibe vibe
Yeah what up
Real talk
Teacher told me in 5th grade that rap's too
Full of demons and this makes the brats
Too fixated on racks through disdain in the tracks
But all I knew was Still Dre still slaps
Hello white America, assassinating character
They never got the culture so they called it all hysteria
And I am from an area where vulgar means your merit sucks
And you could have a point in there but we don't get your heritage
I'm trying to drop views
I knew BLM from from the POV of Fox News
Black lives matter
"Of course your lives matter, all of them do. The cops too"
I never got the undermining nature
To stand with BLM is not to be a white man hater
But after slavery and custody and Tuskegee
We should give encouragement instead of compromising favor

If you aint up on things
Gimme a minute, lemme figure it out
If you aint up on things
Lemme catch up to the rest of yall
If you aint up on things
You aint up on things
You aint up on things

This aint a diss track, I'm trying to show growth
Cause home grown's a no-no when all I know is Tone Loc
And as far as I'm shown all the rest say f the po-po
I watch the world in slo-mo as the fighters are pro bono
Scrolling in my memory, I'm thinking of the first event.
When Michael Brown was shot, I thought, "I guess I'm 'voiding Ferguson"
I didn't get the hurtin' then but rioting was burdensome
But looking back from now, I see what I 's among the worst of 'em
Light, dark, faux, real, rich, poor, house, field
I never thought I contributed to the "still"
Until I saw Floyd and there is no avoiding the film
If I'm white and I'm destroyed, how's a black boy feel
I'm sorry man

If you aint up on things
Gimme a minute, lemme figure it out
If you aint up on things
Lemme catch up to the rest of yall
If you aint up on things
You aint up on things
You aint up on things

I know a white guy who taught a white child the n-word
And got highfives like lifetimes aint never
Been sacrificed to southern incompetence
I don't think he knows the dominance of the past
I never learned Jim Crow, so I read it online
The constitution said a slave is only three over five
I never read any the words Frederick Douglass jot
I'm even from The Lou and nobody told me Dred Scott
If you asked when emancipation happened, I'd shrug
And say the Civil War but I dont even know when it was
I didn't know the Great Migration had ever begun
They're things that white teachers never know how to confront
I mean hey, I don't blame them. It's uncomfortable for us
But you can either own it up or sweep it under the rug
And it comes back with a vengeance till the world is destroyed
I'm tryna pay my penance
Rest in peace George Floyd

If you aint up on things
Gimme a minute, lemme figure it out
If you aint up on things
Lemme catch up to the rest of yall
If you aint up on things
You aint up on things
You aint up on things