[Verse 1: Mykele]

Pick your style

Pick your clothes

Pick your music

You got free will dont let them tell you how to use it

Yup, you know its beauty in the choice

Since a boy I'd explore how much my thoughts weighed

Never forced to wear the M.A.S.K

Thats heavy baby, too much to handle

Competing with the expectations of spiritual vandals

Only motive is a school scandal

Gossiping cannibals

Your difference looks like greatness then they're all up in your mandible

Whoa, now you're a talented show without competing sleazy

I rocked some moon boots

A black guitar

Some pokemon cards

An african dashiki covered in graffiti

Id even try to brush my hair when I was feeling dreamy

So, this simple fact is

You don't have to practice

Defy the definition

Not a right way to be black

To be whack

To be cool

To be you

Just be true to yourself

Represent

Whats inside

Inner wealth baby

[Hook: Mykele & Jovan]

Not here to fulfill your urban myth

Wasn't born to conform to what you're comfortable with

Lets take these old tropes down so we can reinvent

Yo, Im not the Monolith

No, we're no the Monolith

Not a monolith, no we're not the monolith!

And you should really know this by now, it is really common sense!

Not a monolith, no we're not the monolith!

And you should really know this by now, it is really common sense!

Not a monolith, no we're not the monolith!

And you should really know this by now!

[Verse 2: Jovan]

Don't fool yourself to think I have some monolith behavior

Like candy, people comes in different kind of flavors

I favor the ones who ain't afraid to be themselves

I know it takes a little time, and it takes a certain kind of help

Don't listen to the enemies, just tell them kill the noise

Like how we tell them in the streets within the state of Illinois

Remain to stay poise and confuse 'em

Diffuse 'em, with kindness, 'cause that's the way that you have to infuse them

And lose 'em, cause one day you will laugh and this and laugh at 'em

Quirky & creative, chewing on your favorite bubble gum

The world is just so troublesome, remember you're the brightest one

They always looking at you hard, because you replicate the sun!

Don't taketh who you are for granted

They contemplate all the time to be planted, our purpose's not to vanish

Although we black girl magic: establish, just who we are

Just who we are and dream far, within the stars

[Hook: Trig]

Not the Monolith, yo I'm no the Monolith

Not the Monolith, yo we're no the Monolith

Not the Monolith, yo we're no the Monolith

No, no

[Verse 3: Trig]

Sister told me I should be myself, so that's what I teach

And In ya soul is gold and inner wealth, so that's what I preach

Don't ever fall because they talking down, Just make sure ya reach

To the top, and soon enough all the nonsense will stop

That was the truth If I ain't never heard it

I took this truth up to the booth , and knew I had to serve it

To the youth so they can know exactly what the word is

When they out and making everyone around them NERVOUS!

But that's life, people hate what they don't understand

But let them hate, just elevate and keep the upper hand

Remember that your melanin is not some sort of brand

Your an individual that's pivotal across the land

God made me lyrical to spit visual miracles for the little boy and girl at home that's trying to reach there pinnacle

Stay original, that's the principle its critical

It's now traditional to think that we are all physical

So typical to think that we are all criminals

All those thoughts are minimal, we remain invincible

Thinking that we are the monolith became habitual

Let me be ya doctor, break ya habits with medicinal

We Are Not The Monolith

We Are Not The Monolith

We Are Not The Monolith

We Are Individuals!