sadly I'm back in the hood, cause that is where i come from must be no good, cause they know I am no dumdum the fact i withstood, makes me the conundrum giving back to the hood, now we gon change assumptions we want free like sinque, take control of the mothership got dreams MLK, expose holes in your government Koffi with the Kente, arms up with my colored fist balled hard like MJ with the 23 for our suffrages ya boy can't sleep, I'm discomforted haven't had a dream since the hustling cold sweats on my sheets, still struggling soul stuck on freeze, like I'm buffering processing and wondering, when we gonna get served Ella Baker with the sit ins at the Woolsworth 40 acres and a pension, get my full worth lift a mule's work for a chain at the jewelers, skimpy like a pulled skirt, tugging on me mentally Ruby doing school work, in Frantz elementary Nat Turner on the run, fight of the century raisin in the sun, Poitier on the silver screen slain with the guillotine, hang from the poplar tree fruit came from Booker T., Tuskegee University airmen flying royalty, everyone avoiding me endeavors from Jemison, who you think appointed me I'm back in the hood, to show them where we come from so now what's good, cause you know we no dumdums the fact we withstood, makes us the dysfunction giving back to the hood, now we gon change assumptions we are not dumb, were not just thugs, we are not violence prohibiting books, developing crooks, we won't be silenced separate blood, omitted the love, we are survivalist stuck in the mud, fill us with drugs, you are the virus weve overcome in spite it, we taking over to spite em Imma break it down to science, your a mutation of my skin I am no longer compliant, you don't scare me in the slightest put your hands up for the righteous, put your first up for the triumph I'm back in the hood defiance, coming at all who denied us it's hot, we turned up the climate, melanin makes us so vibrant ancestory there to reminds us, we are to never stay quiet we are to never stay blinded, were always better in alliance