[Verse 1: Shing02]

Speak up and raise fists and labeled as misfits

What the fuck we’re not here

To break the system, we’re here to fix what’s broken

So many problems inherited

Much of the conflict overseas and domestic

Think I’m pessimistic? huh

Well I’m the opposite, just a realist

You can label me under fearless

And even if my people turn their backs I’m peerless

I feel this knot in my throat, we running out of hope

Yo what can I do to make a difference, I gotta be dope

For any light to shine, for any weight to carry on my back

So I turn to knowledge, break it down and then put it on the map

Facts versus fiction, fantasy, reality blurred

Debts stacked to the ceiling and you know it’s deferred

Then again who owns it

Chase the paper trail, we got our eyes on it

‘tween polarity or popularity

We’re clouded in judgement, I want some clarity

Bear with me, dare to be better than the next man

To benefit the next kin we’re born free

No need to be living in constant fear and defeat

Knocked down and outta luck?

Get back up and repeat, better believe it

First you ask nice and if you deserve it

It’s yours to take, and you shall receive

[Chorus: Shing02]

Speak up, up, up, up

Use your voice

No two are the same

So what you saying’

Speak up, up, up, up

Bring the noise and the toys

Pick your weapon of choice

[Verse 2: Scholar]

Feeling like my calling is to spit the sickest raps in here

Never needed bongie rips to lift me out the atmosphere

Feeling like I'm falling but this squall is only passing fear

Dealing with it all in until I'm balling making racks in here

The cash I feel is something super detrimental

Existential crisis when my mind is on this instrumental

Coincidental I can't let go of this pencil

Summer solstice still the coldest with this plot up in my mental

My head so fuckin sold up on the thought we got potential

So I never settle but I'm lost defining what's successful

Been so caught up in the game but life ain't no Nintendo man

The trend to sell your soul just for a millie and a benzo

But that's the least of my problems

When there's a beast at the bottom

It's on a leash and it's knocking

I see a teen bring a shotgun

And just release till their droppin'

I know police they be boggin'

And all the streets they ain't stoppin'

It's like this peace ain't an option

They say we're living to die

I told um you're living a lie

Hope you see your dreams are sent from the high

Better reply

Free your negative minds

From schemes and sedative highs

We're trippin' and getting our men and our women to thinking we never can fly

Most of us don't know what we're hear

We need to read up

What we see is smoke in the mirror

I hope we free up

Shit ain't always what it appears

We need to keep up

Silence is the cousin of fear

So better speak up

[Chorus: Shing02]

Speak up, up, up, up

Use your voice

No two are the same

So what you saying’

Speak up, up, up, up