Came a Long Way Lyrics

Yeah life aint what it seems

2016 Moved to the City of Cream

With a dollar and a dream ultralight beam

I knew my life had to be on to bigger better things

Wanted to be the professor that I never had

First and last Black professor that they'll ever have

That's the type of shit that used to make a nigga mad

Hope there's more to your life than chasing a fucking bag

Never was I in the class trying to change minds

I be in the classroom trying to change lives 

Huey Newton Revolutionary Suicide 

The Spook that Sat by the Ivory Tower, I'm in disguise

Year 35 still Eyes on the Prize

Star Trekking, Next Generation, no Enterprise 

A Black mind they could never ever gentrify 

Haters try to bury me but like Maya still I riiiiise (Up)

To the occasion, always on my feet that's a standing ovation

Yeah I'm bout to pour all these lyrical libations

Into your soul fam this a dedication

To the ongoing struggle for liberation 

Ain't a hood nigga but I'm hood nigga adjacent 

May need more than education for what we facing

Tell my people never be complacent

I keep my 10 toes down cemented

And reinvented

What it meant to be a professor

And stayed authentic

Even though along the way many got offended 

They thought I was too nigga to be an academic

NWA with a PhD

I tell you right now they never getting rid of me

Finally I think they beginning to really see

I'mma just gunna keep going on like infinity

I came a long way from little poor Black boy

Rocking Bugle Boy

On my back was a Jansport

Fast forward, now I'm getting stamps on the passport

Looking 6'9 based on everything I stand for

I came a long way from little poor Black boy

Rocking Bugle Boy

On my back was a Jansport

Fast forward, now I'm getting stamps on the passport

Looking 6'9 based on everything I stand for

Yeah in the year 2022

Relocated to Miami now I'm throwing up the U

Looking at my life still can't believe it's true 

Wishing my Grandma was here so she could see it too

Social mobility might be bringing me different views 

But my memories of where I came from I'll never lose

Sacrificed so much for these dreams that I have pursued

Nothing came easy, ah naw I over paid my dues

Ain't looking for sympathy for the life I choose

Had no other options but to win I couldn't lose 

I run marathons around the world in they kicks

And bet they couldn't even two step in my fucking shoes

Yeah, I'm came a long way from Santa Cruz

Never on the right angle, I was more hypotenuse

Poetically Handle Doubt on my Langston Hughes 

This Negro Speaks of Rivers and these Po' Boy Blues

Yeah without any clues, I Too, Sing America what will we do

Got that PhD and the struggle stills ensues 

Sad to see some of us sell our soul for the revenue

Couldn't be me though naw real through and through

This above all, to thine own self be true

First I dream it then I live it deja vu 

Making something out of nothing just like we always do

I came a long way from little poor Black boy

Rocking Bugle Boy

On my back was a Jansport

Fast forward, now I'm getting stamps on the passport

Looking 6'9 based on everything I stand for

I came a long way from little poor Black boy

Rocking Bugle Boy

On my back was a Jansport

Fast forward, now I'm getting stamps on the passport

Looking 6'9 based on everything I stand for

Yeah, life aint what it seems

2016 Moved to the City of Cream

With a dollar and a dream ultralight beam

I knew my life had to be on to bigger better things