Verse I

Mental enslavement and pavements have blood stains

Single mama pain smack dab in flood plains

Hood supermarkets don’t even carry no whole grains

Evading diabetes as well as the blown brains

Where some don’t mind dying for wards they proclaim

Surroundings in which I was raised and maintained

But on the open market, these stocks get low gains

If you ain’t smoking strains or rockin' that cocaine

Me I rock mics, cross borders and make change

On, passenger trains, cars, buses and jet planes

20 cities just to boost the recognition of name

Not an Irene Cara type that be lookin’ for fame

To be the most popular was never the aim

To empower and make wack cats step up they game

You got a problem tell me bout it, ain’t no bitch in my veins

Forever for the people won’t be switchin’ no lanes

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Failure came knocking, I never let it in

Heard the beats droppin’, was ready to begin

Losing? Forget it, we set it for the win

Get it, MOVING, CRACKIN’, POPPIN’—IN!

Get it, MOVING, CRACKIN’, POPPIN’—IN!(4x)

Verse II

These young cats want direction, I give 'em my spiel

Lay it out in black and white like Heidi + Seal

Somebody try to discover you, it’s best that you yield

Discovered people got smallpox in blankets concealed

Decimated after teaching preparation of meals

Exported 9000 miles to pick cotton in fields

I once waited on this one cat to gimmie a deal

Masquerading pro-Black bitch nigga wasn't for real

When we'd speak, my release date he'd never reveal

Felt like two Technics, he was spinning my wheels

Said between commercial and conscious he would level the field

Tried to switch my steez up, we didn’t congeal

Stifled my momentum, fate almost got sealed

I was out like the Clampets in that automobile

If it go commercial, wouldn’t from switching my feel

Like Rocksteady Flashdancing w/ Jennifer Beal

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Verse III

I live along the Mississippi, as once did Choctaw

Most times rhyming, I hold the microphone southpaw

Big Daddy Kane, Juice Crew, it's undoubtedly raw

MC Shan, Shante, authentic, down by the law

Man, I'm cold...and still stay fresh when I thaw

Kept grinding, because success I foresaw

Professional presentation leave spectators in awe

We left the static in on purpose, no it wasn't a flaw

Storm hit and for life had to tooth and to claw

People suffered, and who prospered? Halliburton and Shaw

I worked for almost everything that about me you saw

Dueling with the industry, take 10 paces and draw

Petty criticism, that's the back breaking straw

These blog niggas bout to fuck around, get bust in they jaw

Promoters think we rock free, aw family naw

Hit your financial institutions and proceed to withdraw

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