Joey Bada$$ quotes

I'm out for dead presidents to represent me

Because I've never known a live one that represent me

The code words to killin' a black man by police is, "He's got a gun"

Damned if he do, damned if he don't, damned if he runs

If you wanna make change, it's gon' take commitment

Some people enslaved by they religion

Can't emancipate them from the mental prisons

Justice won't be served by a hashtag, and that's the very reason I ask that

What are we to do? We're scattered around

With no clue of this ugly truth

Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane

No, it's the young black god livin’ out his dreams

What you mean? I been up on an ultralight beam

They don't wanna see you fly, they just gonna shoot your wings

We some ordinary people but extraordinary poets

If them Heaven's gates closed

I'ma break all them hinges for my niggas

This for my people, tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful

So hard to survive a world so lethal

Who will take a stand and be our hero, of my people, yeah?

I personally feel like I was put here on this Earth not only to inspire, but to wake people up.

No cash flashed, but the cheese still make teeth show

I guess some things will never change

Locked in the cycle, tryna break the chains

Handcuffs so tight, nearly slit my veins

This what tough love feels like, feel my pain, uh

It's clear we livin' in hell, the life of a black male

These ain't fair races, they just let the fear erase us

Adopted by the slums, son of guns, this is how they raised us

I exchange my negative for a positive

Hustle on the block, who gon' save the children?

Man it's all a plot and I'm just revealin'

The media just tryna make a villain

Tell me why you don’t love me

Why you always misjudge me?

Why you always put so many things above me?

Why you lead me to believe that I’m ugly?