Shrinkage Lyrics

I come from where uncles steal from their nieces

Where big brothers are father figures and fathers are non existent

Leaving children with they grandmas

And grandmas on assistance

Government take her land

But no we sold it for persistence

Three jobs just to put fufu on the table

And smoking is best when you don't have no fucking cable

But lunch rooms ain't for eating

That free lunch hit like chiles

We steal just for the freedom

And book be like bus tickets

Water me like my roots go

Deeper than shrinkage

Cuz i'm a sum of my surroundings

All the angels and demons

Don't you make too much noise

Know your momma still sleeping

She got school then work

Then work again in the evening

We flip the food for thought

Then make them chew on ebonics

I'm African booty scratcher

But still I spit out the phonics

A history lesson when I make blend

Alcoholic

I'm the past, present the future I might sound economic

But we spent the holiday

Living pay check to paycheck

Spreading thin like the hollandaise

Still spent on the latex

Dryer sheets in my back pack

I remember the days when

The church was all we had

Wasn't allowed in the play pen

When them kids was too precious

For a peasant like me

And Rebel is all I had

Put it on a white tee

Sipping on 44

Like 44

With a 44 from Wendy's

That tea hit

When spliff hit

That shit hit so hefty

When guitar riffs

Were heaven

And I dreamt of fendi

When thrift stores

Were tempting

But second hand

Was trending

When books were all I had

So I dove in them pages

On fault line i wrote mine,

That freedom was tasty

Water me like my roots go

Deeper than shrinkage

Cuz i'm a sum of my surroundings

All the angels and demons

Don't you make too much noise

Know your momma still sleeping

She got school then work

Then work again in the evening

They might try to knock me down but I won't fold

I'll grow