Verse:

And still i rise

Thou they tried to destroy me

Wouldn't employ me

Devoid me of strength

Hold me to characteristics of caricatures they paint

And i rise more

Still i grind more 4 times as hard cause i only get half for working 2 times more

Divide more from the thoughts of blinded

Binded through time with the plagues in the mind if my deity doesnt look like me why would i die for em

Show up to the congregation for hope of reparation placating to the clayfaces

The sunburnt day chasers

You got me fucked up

Go back

Before the meat was Mondo

The vision wasn't destroyed all i needed was the time stone

Hash tags saying free Congo when you could be freeing Congo

Beats me til im bonkers or bongos

Performative actions for the deplorative masses

You resorted to move in to the house of those who wanted to be your masters?

Propaganda telling you your brothers a savage

Work for they satisfaction working in factories and children taught lies by the faculty

Chuckles from the behind the walls as you begging on ya hands and knees

Look at em laughin

Go back

Built a house you couldn't live in

Did a couple sit in for places you dint even wanna sit in

Old Klan made it here the the old panthers didn't

(hmmmmmm)

Thats for another tho

Home is where the heart is

How can you find your heart in anothers home

Killed and sickened stolen this is an others home

Flies on the face 1 dollar a day could save those in yo mother home

You know where the money go

Working hard all day for success of another tho

Sell a lil green for the green to get some other dough

Won't get you a bungalow

But they sure liked ya hustle tho

Good idea

Went a head gave they stream another flow

Great intellectual property

Sprung up through poverty arrested for it

Tested for it

Now look at whos profiting

Stop me when im lying

Help me lord im trying

Past the collection plate pastor words a lil inspiring

Tiring

Giving ya last to non profit organizations

Didn't know the king of spirits took physical donations

But everyone embrace it

Cartier's and Cadillac's ain't coming cause ya ties ain't paid yet

Paycheck to paycheck

Name too black on the applications

Good white names yea

You dont even know ya last name so you gotta fake it

European name flips

Yea keep changing

Go back

The mirror foggy

Identity crisis mixed with vices

Medications and fights with the monkey on my back like wolf of wall street

Who burned ya wallstreet

Who burned rosewood cause infidelity

Who taught you beating ya kids was the remedy

But you never see they child listening

Who taught you ya skin was a disgrace when the original skin was melanin

Ladies and gentlemen

Go back

You know whats gon com when i say this

You let the enemy take your flower for their pollenization

Make a entire generation question the side that they claiming

Ostracization

Half of ya family calling ya yellow

The other half is just racist

Birth of a nation

Whips and chains like a dominatrix

Whips and chains you back on the slave ship

Took the cookie with No authorization

And you gave it to em for free?

Go back

Killed with pathogens

Killed in Nazareth

Why kneel to the assassins

The appeal of a colonist tyrant

You must be a masochist

Listen

The fall of the African is always a non African

Sinner sinner

When we ain't have it we was robbin for dinner

Feeding off scraps

Eating intestine and liver

The rest didn't consider

Salted plants on Sunday

Won't make it to Monday granny made a buffet

Its all off of kilter

Damn near what killed her

Go back

Ma

I dont care how they fashion it

I dont care if they rationed it

I dont care how you imagined it

For those at home and abroad

Africa for the Africans

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