Ride Out Lyrics

When I ride out it's for the tribe now

I left the old me in the rearview

No staining pockets or aiming rockets

We're buying land back with a good view

I hear them talking I see them watching

They want me to fail I'm too in tune

But when I ride out it's for the tribe now

I left the old me in the rearview

From robbing other broke folks and burglarizing corner stores

To then becoming grown folks raising kids who warrant more

I've come a long way now people give my songs play

Share my story with the youth so they don't do the wrong things

Share my story with the men so they can feel the hope

Share my story with the women so they see the growth

On behalf of Native men can I apologize

It ain't the warrior way to play our ikwe's all them lies

I've been guilty as charged and I can't change the past

But I can put a foot forward to be a better man

Generational trauma a major dent in our armor

It took our fathers away all that remains is our mama's

So when they succumb to drugs and shack up with the thugs

Who put their hands on them it's cause they didn't know love

Youngins don't know better so they resent moms abandonment

Absent dads get no blame cause they weren't in the establishment

(the cycle)

When I ride out it's for the tribe now

I left the old me in the rearview

No staining pockets or aiming rockets

We're buying land back with a good view

I hear them talking I see them watching

They want me to fail I'm too in tune

But when I ride out it's for the tribe now

I left the old me in the rearview

If you wanna change the world go home and love your family

That's gangsta that's frontline and not too shabbily

Importance of relatives can never be understated

Whether chosen through related experience or blood weighted

Love is love but blood ain't love cause blood ain't

Always thicker than water it snubs if just slapping gums

Even fans become fam giving daps and hugs

Trading cash for cuts and giving raps a buzz

Recognize reciprocation when it slaps and thumps

When the words convey a message from the mans above

Transmitted through the thunderbirds when lightning claps debug

Write to the beat of raindrops when tapping glass so tough

Give my thanks to og aimsters and our ancestors

They paved the so we could pray surviving massacres

Love our families and graduate with bachelor's

Degrees so we hold keys no longer passengers

When I ride out it's for the tribe now

I left the old me in the rearview

No staining pockets or aiming rockets

We're buying land back with a good view

I hear them talking I see them watching

They want me to fail I'm too in tune

But when I ride out it's for the tribe now

I left the old me in the rearview