[Hook: David Banner] Everybody in my city pushing keys and that's all these kids see If that's the only thing they hear then that's The only thing they'll be, we call it: "Swag, swag, swag!" We call it "Swag, swag, swag!" The homies is busting slugs, the women is shaking ass The white girls call us "nigga" and We just sit back and laugh and call it "Swag, swag, swag!" We call it: "Swag, swag, swag!"
[Verse 1: Kardinal Offishall] Banner, let me get them, let me speak up Let me tell them 'bout swag, let me tell them 'bout fraud Let me tell them 'bout pride and growing up black in a land so cold You can freeze your soul if you don't have your wits about you I will out you, if you talk that swag shit loosely I been chilling on tour 'round the world And most of the egos really don't move me I came from the hood but I came up good My mama raised me right I was more into Malcom than into talcum Different kind of fight I see niggas sell out who they really are for fame and money Denounce a profit just for profit with no interest to stop it My calculations showing as a people we regressing Most of the rappers I know are intelligent But they would never bless you with a lesson They would rather feed you to bitches, drugs, and guns Like fucking clowns They ain't concerned with your block cause they in the 'burbs now What's worse, a white supremacist plotting to kill you with evil Or black faces on the T.V. poisoning our people Mentally in the streets, our brains are in a body bag I hope you vote Obama twice, but some of you won't Just blame it on your swag, swag, swag
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[Verse 2: David Banner] Is anybody on the next level with me? I'm hearing niggas dissing God, y'all think it's witty I ain't laughing, we don't play in Mississippi Even when I was broke, selling my soul wasn't tempting Let a white cop shoot a black kid You'll see a few tweets, that's it He'll march for a minute, that's it Get a new outfit and a dance like this: Cook! Swag! Woo! Cook! Swag! Woo! Black kid dead and ain't nobody mad They won't speak the truth, these niggas been scared Call my flow the pudding, the proof's in there I say the shit they say I shouldn't, I ain't never cared I been everywhere, took game, spit it, and left it there I brought a couple of slugs to yo hood, pray I don't leave 'em there I hope that you don't give me a reason, double dare I'm hard to scare, I'm what they fear, a black planet, starts here