Cool Lyrics

Yeah

Cool

What's cool

Our cool is something we don't lose

Cool is our mask

Cool is our badge

Cool is our revenge

The libation at the war council

For the think tank of a people who refuse to be kept down

Cool is how we create no matter the war raging around us

Cool is how we keep the road of our destiny

From warping under the intensity

Of that hard life

I's cool

Regardless of the things they do to break us

I's cool

No matter how much heat they heap upon us

I's cool

When squares attack

Cool is our shield

We walk through flame but still

Covered by ash and soot

We make it by hook or crook

Because

We's cool

Walking down the street to our own rhythm

Listening to my uncles kick some ism

We's cool

Like jazz in June

A Jasmine bloom

Our attitude when we sing this tune

We's cool

Like Fela Kuti

And Miles Davis

Jimi Hendrix

And Ossie Davis

We's cool

Like Betty Davis

And Zora Neale Hurston

Lena Horne

And Abbey Lincoln

We's cool

Don't apologize

For being ourselves

We icy like the frozen food

On grandmas freezer shelf

We's cool

Like deep conversations with herb libations

In formation like the constellations

Doctor Clarke when he's contemplating

My baby girl when she's meditating

800 plus on a credit rating

Shahrazad Ali when she's educating

We's cool

When my fathers band did Grandmas hands

I's cool

When Yusef Lateef

When he gave me my name

I's cool