Root

You can see it in the hustle

No denying that the struggle been inherited

Our so called saviors got ‘em closets full of skeletons

Pockets full of gold, ever wondered how they got it

When a generation after another, punished to death with it

Generations left the in the gutter

Without a therapist

Every smile that you encounter not always genuine

Brain washed, kept in a bubble, i wasn't hearing it

Thinking that this system was built to all our benefit

Black girl, sick of the curls

Trying to be Marilyn, hurled in the middle

She learned how to be fairer skin

Cos even the brothers out be saying that is my preference

Fuck staying celibate, chasing white like it's heroin

Hoping that it get a bit better with the next specimen

Praying to a Jesus who look like Samuli Edelman

Twisting up this sinsemilla bud with the fellowship

My favorite quote, “i don't give a fuck”

Just manage in this crazy world, holding up a cup

Sipping purpleness, the purpose is to keep us in a buzz

Like we never been interested in getting better jobs

Only selling shit, the yellow brick road wasn't for us degenerates

I tell em that affecting lives is where the wealth and merit is

So tell me why the fuck they would be sharing it with us, look

Write down our own testament, definite

Never putting mines on these presidents, the hell wit em

The worst parts are secrets

Can not change what you don’t know

Are you alive or just breathing

Been led to believe that change will come from silence

Pain is cured in silence

But no, from the root we can start again

Am i a part of the problem, promoting bullshit

Brothers laid at the bottom, i got em full clips

And a half empty bottle

Unable to look at this full pic, is it common?

I mean, mother fuckers neglected

When all we ever wanted was to be respected

So there’s a whole lot more to a necklace

And if don't work, still got this hot temper

Now as a kid, you was down if your actions were reckless

Micro aggressions, while clowning out for the acceptance

They talking now, so without a doubt

I caught with the message

Look at my role models like that's what i'm destined be

Anthony Curtis after his service

Can't work on my knees, trying to nourish the tree

Searching for heaven

Going out like Tony just to become a legend

I was told that's the only way for ma brethren, hold on a second

Don't get too comfortable

Emmet Till's killers slipped away but they got Huxtable

Guilty or not, it's fair to say that way more vulnerable than all of you

When it comes to the wrongs to proof, all is true

I know you feel some type of way

Who wouldn't wanna ball and hoop

If the stage is set we celebrate

So it's easy to get drawn into

The worst parts are secrets

Can not change what you don’t know

Are you alive or just breathing

Been led to believe that change will come from silence

Pain is cured in silence

But no, from the root we can start again