[Intro]

Yeah

[Verse 1]

I live in two Americas, raised in double standards (Yeah)

January 6th, the world saw it on the camera (Uh)

Lens would've caught the bloodiest panorama

If them white folk looked like me, you know the answer

Don't focus on the candor

See the explosives and the hammers incited by the POTUS's slander (Yeah)

Trump's the host of the cancer (Uh)

Should be thrown in the slammer

But the nation won't vote in this manner

Why you holdin' the banner

Of my Lord and Savior next to thе Confederate

A sitting tеrrorist that was disguised as a president? (Uh-huh)

It's nothin' new, so I ain't gon' be delicate (Yeah)

Right now, yeah, I am on my Frederick (Yeah)

Dug a list of all, all of the Black liberators

Posted it right on my refrigerator (Yeah)

Let my people breathe, we the nation's defibrillator

And got smoke for any of the instigators

[Chorus]

This is not a request, it's a command

Defend the oppressed, take a stand

I don't care if you a hater or a fan

Enemy or a friend, we are standing 'til the end (Yeah)

This is not a request, it's a command (Uh-huh)

Defend the oppressed, take a stand (Take a stand)

I don't care if you a hater or a fan

Enemy or a friend, we are standing 'til the end (Yeah)

[Verse 2]

Yeah, uh, yeah

I sketched my life on the timeline

Scroll through the hash marks, it's crazy how time flies

Assigned in the archives, aligned where the stars rise

Past meets the present in the future, on God's time

With no choice, we invaded the earth's agenda

It's funny how your very first day, you can't remember

Then they mark the date, stamp it on a certificate

That's just a privilege my ancestors couldn't get

So your boy is never ashamed of his age

I summon the rage of Frederick Douglass right on the stage

An orator with a pen that triggered the Civil War

Exposing the broken civilization down to the gilded core

They gave me nothin' but a bed on a filthy floor

It's a crime to read and write, but you gon' hear me roar

I try to tell 'em, but they still ignore

It takes a cell pone and George Floyd's neck kneeled to the floor

For you to see, yeah, we still in the Civil War

Captain America might be a villain at the core

Can't change the lease to the Falcon to do your evil chores

Get a broom, clean the house, change the decor

Hmm, and take that white Jesus down

Repay to the first owners what you stole stole now, uh, yeah

That is how you rebound, uh, yeah

That is how freedom sounds

[Chorus]

This is not a request, it's a command

Defend the oppressed, take a stand

I don't care if you a hater or a fan

Enemy or a friend, we are standing 'til the end (Yeah)

This is not a request, it's a command (Uh-huh)

Defend the oppressed, take a stand (Take a stand)

I don't care if you a hater or a fan

Enemy or a friend, we are standing 'til the end (Yeah, standing 'til the—)