Homegrown

I'm America's worst nightmare

I'm young black and too intelligent to be scared

I'm from back when you knew everyone you was near

And your circle been around and could never produce a square, yeah

I'm from there and you know how living there goes

Ribbons in the air and love whipped into O's

My man be sending prayers up for the give and the go

He said he pull a chair up and blow a kiss to the stove, mwah

All love like splitting this hero with you

Or when they toss slugs to see if there's hero in you

I'm here to talk us and 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 made clearer

Sitting in your chest while you sit out the 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 the Slave Theater, right?

They place you to get yours then put you outta place

Knowing you was just taught to keep a hideaway

Like you don't come from the store until you got a plate

Or flowers over your thoughts like Billie Holiday

Either or, or, until we up and gone

They're calling 311 but they was color drawn

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

Where every note carries over like if I add a horn

Caught a way up with visions of 40 acres

So know when I talk these I add a Lee like Cannonball

Adderley? Cannonball? Never mind

That'll make sense by tomorrow if you should get the time

No ticking like you spent 10 long on the ticket

I kick 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

I still never had to go and find a P.O.

But my brother does, commissary honey buns

Tryna keep $250 with him on the up and up

Knowing it's still Bill and Russell when it come to us

And what it was turns into what it be now

All that you've become was given from what you be round

He said Sky I was just looking to get a lead out

Tryna get this run fore I kick it like it was 3 downs

I said I'm tryna stop the Get Out's from playing keep out

Both of us was talking bout how we can put a knee down

His for the score, and mine for the cause

Live for it all, aligned from the door

Word to the new Jim Crow and how parole go

And word to all of the above seeming homegrown

Homegrown for the sake of it, uh

Know to keep it homegrown for the sake of it, uh

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, uh

Know to keep it homegrown for the sake of it, uh

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