The Voice Lyrics

I'm a, smooth talking Native

Slurred speech speaker till your dude got creative

Had to speak up in the booth and embrace it

No internet rapper on the stage still amazing

From introverted school kid to fame getting payments

Talkative students heard say it don't spray it

Why you so quiet was the question I was asked

Thirty odd schools K through twelve I can name it

Pops was in prison for the drugs mom was slaving

Foster care child somewhere in a strange basement

Rooted in boarding schools and colonization

Brought us pain, anguish took our culture and language

Trauma touched me passed down through generations

I could hardly speak at all, much less my Native tongue

Forgave mom and dad for the world they were raised in

Then I overcame it all, now I feel like I'm the one

It's okay to be yourself man

A story is much more powerful when it's told honestly

We start the race in different places but who really cares

Silver spoon or struggle food you better lace 'em up

Cause we'll be judged by how we finish not by what we're from

Still don't let me pass you or outclass you if you got the jump

Disgrace your parents sacrifices getting beat by slums

If this is you I'm not attacking I say this to my sons

The vulnerability and honesty in rap is gone

Cats just got it backwards, man the soul is half the song

Fronting like childhood trauma don't last for long

So fans can't know the half of who their favorite rappers are

Storytelling going extinct like mastodons,

Spineless backstabbers acting like their back is strong

So I suppose I understand why few can keep it real

I refuse to kneel to fear I'm musing music you can feel

Using vocal chords to move what a beautiful noise

Life tried to silence me but I became the voice

And it's strange cause I was doing an online show one day

And my throat felt like it gave out, like my voice just gave out

I panicked in my mind had to push through though

Anyway got it checked out and I guess my right vocal cord misfires

It don't work properly or something but you know what are you gonna do