[Intro: Dimeji]

One time for my niggas wey dey steady high

Doing whatever while time is just getting by

Getting no cheddar, life is such a scary site

That will terrify anybody even maybe I

Elevate, elevate, real shit homie

[Chorus: Dimeji]

Elevate

Gotta elevate

Elevate

[Verse 1: Dimeji]

Same clothes, different bodies

All the baskets, one lorry

And everybody is asking why I’m rapping about the same story

On the news is nothing new so let me tell the truth

And if you can relate, then maybe we can elevate the youth

Maybe future generations wouldn’t need the generator

Maybe senators would be serving us so we get the paper

But who knows why life is like ludo

And everyone you know trying to be numero uno

Singing ye ye ye

Man e don tey tey tey

We trying to get this pay

But no hope so we just pray

Speaking to various sisters you learn that life is bitter

Growing up she asked her daddy why he got to be a mama beater

Life is twice as tough for all the ladies in Nigeria

Enough rape cases swept under the rug in your area

Sometimes we educate and some days we elevate

So maybe one day we could all chill and celebrate like

[Chorus: Dimeji]

Elevate, elevate

Gotta elevate

Elevate, elevate

[Verse 2: Dimeji]

One time for my dark skin melanin queens

Or light skinned it don’t matter, slay mama, yas queen

One time for my people

All the kids, super eagles

All professions engineering medicine or paralegal

Technicians, electricians, teachers that just listen

For all brave people fighting the evil oppositions

Even politicians yeah we just want you to be better

Put the bread up in the streets, feels better breaking cheddar

You can’t really be rich if everyone around you poor

You can’t be at peace if everywhere around you war

That the truth, that’s the story

That the guts, that’s the glory

Revolution, that’s the movement

No room in the prison then there's room for improvement

This the life, this the mission

Put more funds in academic research and education

The kids up in your streets be the reason they celebrate

You know we rise by lifting others that’s the way we elevate yeah

[Chorus: Dimeji]

Elevate

Gotta elevate

Elevate

[Bridge]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure

It's our light, not our darkness that most frightens us

Your playing small does not serve the world

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same

We are all meant to shine as children do

[Verse 3: Lekadot]

At age twelve, Amina tin doko

Muniru naa tin naa poran si omo iya onikoko

Jungle ti mature Bolaji ti balaga

Ohun naa tife mase runs pelu omo iya oniparaga

Igboro tisoro, awon temi gan ti kolo

R.I.P Dagrin ma j’okun koma j’ekolo

Shout out s’awon eruku tigboro sowon di hustler

Won ready lati s’anything kolowo kode tun popular

Tori owo won le f’AK 47 yo!

Hun! boya lawon eleyi l’heaven lo

Toba ka e mo koro anaye tete respond

Level towa lowo awon eleyi leju ti James Bond

Oju agbamin’ Naija toba mowe ko bosi

You wan write your name on stone? Gba biro ko kosi

Mio tide ibi kan kan laiye mi, fuck feeling bossy

Mo shin hustle kowope kowo mi kun bi aya Cossy

But Ijoba wa gan o favor wa

An sise aori ere Lori labor wa

Ewo nkan to se si naira pelu kobo wa

Atun ma dibo awon oloshi kan tun malo gbebowa