Yo, can I get that guitar?

That's good

Levels is good, Heat

[hunh]...Tried but they can't subdue me, life like a movie

Cold open stare, in that wicker chair, I'm Huey

Overlooking, broken cities and bitter dreams

Juxtapositions...pimps, poets, and Philistines

Notice my M16, stay next to the Bible

That's on Jehovah, light you up like the floor under Michael

Intersections 'tween new life and a dud

No price on the love, regardless if you Christ or a thug

At crosswalks between Bibles and blood, we can't compare doctrines

From fallow lands, my ancestors was sharecroppin'

We evolved to Harlem Nights from where the soil be

A paradox, covered in blood and mixed loyalties

[I'm] stressed but tapped in, blessed with black skin

And if reborn, I'd do it again, I'm bout that action [hunh!]

Adding what, seven years and four scores will do

Maneuve' like the Souls of Black Folk in Black Forces move

They dread me cause I'm existential, or I'm scot-free?

Or cause I'm Locke on instrumentals, with a block steez?

Maybe isosceles, all my niggas got degrees

To do 180s from the project piss to Black Sophocles

"Stop, freeze, hands in the air!" Throw up a stick when we unite

The wick ignited from there, a nightmare set alight

From Tunisia to Tiananmen Square, a soul like Richard Pryor

That's a wicked fire through prayer...that's my Blackness

Spin around, I'm in your hood with my Blackness

Top down, rolling around in my blackness

Black car, Black joy, let the bass knock

Through my city, that's Black noise, Love my Blackness

And if you ever try to play me on my Blackness

We gon' leave 'em in the ground, you'll see Blackness

Black soul, Black car, you can see the shining light

I'm a luminous Black star [that's my Blackness]

Wish I could flap wings and fly away

To where Black kings in Ghana stay, like Nas said

See beaches where my mama lay, swaying in the sand where my daughters play

Next to Kenyans of Obama's shade

My heart bleed a color red as Mike Jack-et shine

With Black and green like my stripes is pro-Palestine

They say the...Blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

Inhibit the potion, I push off 'til they get me open

And perchance I make words dance like Misty Copeland?

I'd jeté on these tracks, pointed, my ten toes in

Watch me grab mics, speak them flows, they act sour [hunh]

Make the critics eat Jim Crow, that's Black power

Nobody made you, you designed yourself

You can get it from the mud and still align with wealth

Some might craft flows, spin yarns, spit symphonies

Others choose to cut out the throats of they rich enemy

The heavens bred a legacy, recognize that you got a gift

And they can hate you, but never fit in the monolith

Whether dead or anonymous, when you lived it, terrific

If you see it? Scream it, if you breathe it, believe it

Call it resilience or golden design

One day I'll find you to discuss what I was hoping to find

For now, I appreciate this moment in time

Fulbright scholars and draft picks be knowing my rhymes

[That's on my Blackness]

Spin around, I'm in your hood with my Blackness

Top down, rolling around in my blackness

Black car, Black joy, let the bass knock

Through my city, that's Black noise, Love my Blackness

And if you ever try to play me on my Blackness

We gon' leave 'em in the ground, you'll see Blackness

Black soul, Black car, you can see the shining light

I'm a luminous Black star [that's my Blackness]

And that's only the first chapter...

Hey, we wasn't able to make this session happen

So put this on your album instead

First, happy homecoming, my brother

They don't love you like that, But I Do

Keep going, Jahshua Smith

You special, bro

I mean that, sincerely, man

I love you, I love your music

I can't wait for this new project