Royalty//Mother Of Mankind

[Verse]
I see your insecurities orderly lining up,
With more of me ignoring the author behind the love that I've survived with,
Community, unity she provided,
Solidarity, clarity, power that I can hide in,
She told me that my black like matters,
She told me imma be okay when my world shatters,
But all the while her head hangs low, I asked her why,
She say appreciation never come from her own kind,
Madam,
Your own understanding of your beauty and your power should never come form another,
But as your brother, lover, father, friend,
It's my duty to meet with the world's end,
To cherish who you are, who you will be and all you've been,
The backbone of my struggle, but I treat you like dirt,
You ready to hurt for me, me readily leave you hurt,
Forgive me for my ways still, and give me time to tell my brothers what is real.
Yo brothers, what's the deal? Cmon,

[Hook]
How many times you come to find you're undefined when her character's undermined? (Too many times)
It's like her intellect had been neglected, she told me that she don't even expect to be respected.
How many times we idolise the higher lies that's in our mind rather than what's before our eyes? (Too many times)
Well this a message for you brother,
Tell me what you gonna do?

[Verse]
She's too dark, and,
She's too light, her,
Weave's too fake, her,
Curls too tight, she,
Look like Erykah, she,
Look like Nicki,
If she look like Nicki, then she might leave with me,
Respectability politicians be policking,
Yet your policy is the mysoginy and racism,
She encounters from the other side, the powers that be,
We should be standing by our queens, because there's power in we,
So when you tell her how,
You don't really date black girls,
The fiery passion all up in your face black girls,
The mathematician send a man to space black girls,
The mother of the entire human race black girls,
Just 'cos you hate yourself, don't say that you hate that girl,
And then try go on like your own mother aint that girl,
Be attracted to who you want, I'm saying rate that girl,
Respect and appreciate that girl,
Celebrate that girl,
Elevate that girl,
Commemorate that girl,
And if you ain't that girl, and you ain't showing love?
Then get up out of our palace, we probably dancing to rhythms you probably can't even manage,
As for mandem, your interactions can do lasting damage,
Every action, even absence is a form of language,
So what you saying? 'Cos she loves you and her heart is always set on bigger things,
A sacrificial queen like Mrs King.
How many times, if any times we showed the world that we are unified?
How many times have truer lies, separate the love between you and I?
How many times have clever guys severed ties when it comes to do or die?
Well I'm all about you girl, you do what you wanna do.

[Mother Of Mankind - Verse]
The Mother of Mankind, I'm lookin' at her thinkin' she damn fine,
She lookin' at me like it's the damn time, (The Mother of Mankind)
She knowin' everythin' on my damn mind,
And I be callin' on her like landline, (The Mother of Mankind)
Making the earth shake like a land mine,
And every earthquake is a damn sign, she damn fine.