humble beginnings is what made me
here i stand
hood rough, but now polished like a Peruzzi-cut diamond
in a nutshell,
the complexities of quantum physics got nothing on my lyrics
but try launching verbal clips on a aphonic phonies toting a personified
candy thug life
i miss real talk like these idiots miss the point
blacks, whites, Hispanics
with weak gimmicks
i can't stomach
they shove a label on me born from narrow minds
pardon my black ass
too insufficient to pass for a brotha
unlike any other, and understandably so
spurn to jump daddy jim crow
got me twisted like minstrel shows of old
funny how most soak my swagger in bleach
like my dialect and fit jeans is too white to be me
but i see novelty grow from drones like roses from concrete
seen people touch peaks that they couldn't perceive
black, a media fact
the stigma from weak cats
fade from black
adios to ya swagger ya getting a vocal ransack
backwards thinking loom over the cause like shadows of towers
it's the hour
and you're about to witness the power