About Us Lyrics

I come from nothing, the product of poverty, mass incarceration

Discrimination those are just some of the cards we're facing

So now I'm faced with life and death decisions on the daily it

Made me a monster in this jungle crazy

Depicted as a hopeless nigga, the crowd that I use to run wit

Only confirms it so the rope gets bigger

My noose was dope and liquor

Running in cribs hanging on corners

Never shown love, nobody mourns us, crime is enormous

When we ain't got opportunity

That's how it usually goes for you and me

Three Fifths of a man that's how they're viewing me

Basic rights of a human being they keep refusing me

So now I'm wearing masks and gloves, laugh and judge all you want to

No fault of mine but this is what it's come to

It's time to show these motherfuckers what it is my gun do

This what they wanted, another black man lost in the system

They ain't tripping, this is how they run it, its Euphemism

Our history they try to keep a mystery literally they don't know nothing About us (Still I Rise)

Just focus cuz the universe has spoken so notice that they don't know nothing About us ( Still I Rise)

I'm from the same block as you but what's stopping you is lack of having knowledge of self

You think you doing what you got to do but the I'm the

Definition of having knowledge and wisdom

And knowing them roads lead to prison, or maybe worse

I took the lessons I've confiscated and made it work

Put the betterment of my people first

You got to search for Ya purpose and reason cuz even a rose can be birth from the cement

God is within you, you ain't got to do churches and deacons

Words are a beacon of light if you can just choose to follow, become a leader of the youth tomorrow

Instead of shooting hollows abusing bottles and popping pills

If you use Ya mind you can do magic, so cop a field(Copperfield)

Cuz the land is where the power lies, my mission is to bring wisdom to you and power lives

Its do or die cuz the future is closer than we can even notice, lets come together we can beat the vultures

It's for the culture

Our history they try to keep a mystery literally they don't know nothing About us (Still I Rise)

Just focus cuz the universe has spoken so notice that they don't know nothing About us (Still I Rise)