[Verse]
I'm America's worst nightmare, huh
I'm young, black, and too intelligent to be scared
I'm from back when you knew heavy, when you was near
And your circle been around, I could never produce a square, right?
I'm from there, you know how living there goes
Ribbons in the air, and love whipped in the O's
My man be sending prayers up, 'fore they given a go
He said he pulled a chair up and blow a kiss to the stove, mwah
All love like splitting his heroin with you
Oh, and they toss slugs to see if there's hero in you
I'm here to talk 'us' to see if it's beneficial
And it's really all love if you bringing some Henny' with you, right?
'Cause God bless what the Hennessy make clearer
Sitting in your chest while you sit out your day with us
The feeling that you got when you see what some cake get us
Or the feeling of you watching them tear down a slave theater, right?
They play shoot and get yours, then put you out of place
Knowing you is just taught to play hideaway
Like you don't come from the store, until you gotta play
My flowers over your thoughts, like Billie Holiday, hah
Either or, or until we up and gone
They calling 3-1-1, but they was colour drunk
I watched spots get turned to croissant sellers
Like how I watched pots get turned into card pressers
Tried to make it all make sense like more adderall
Wavy, no carry-over like I had a horn
Caught a way up with visions of forty jagers so know when I talk these, I add a Lee like Cannonball
Add a Lee, Cannonball? Never mind
That'll make sense by tomorrow if should you get the time
No ticking like we spent ten long on the ticket
I tick it like a Carmichael with it, and you stoked
I did it for the power of a lobby
Swear to keep it low unless I'm spotted like I'm Kwame, heh
I still never had to go and find a PO, right?
But my brother does, commissary honey buns
Trying to keep two-fifty with him on the up and up
No one is still Bill and Russell when it come to us
And what it was turns into what it be now
All that you become was given from what you be 'round
He said "Sky', I was just lookin' to get a lead out"
Try and get this run 'fore I kick it like it was three downs
I said "I'm tryin' to stop to get out, to play keep out"
Both of us was talking 'bout how we could put a knee down
His for the Scar, mine for the cause
Live for it all, a line from the door, heh
Word to the new Jim Crow and how parole go
And word to all the above, seen me homegrown
Homegrown for the sake of it
Know to keep it homegrown for the sake of it
Do it for home and all the shit that you make of it
Do it for home before they go get to taking it
Homegrown, homegrown for the sake of it
Know to keep it homegrown for the sake of it
Do it for home and all the shit that you make of it
Do it for home before they go get to taking it