GoldLink - XXL Freshman Freestyle lyrics

[Verse] We built the pyramids One percent of the five percent understand the true intimacy and power we contributed to your country let alone your world So how is it that we are stuck in a business with a system perpetuates us on the side? They keep us in a condition where we ain't meant to survive But our hood dealers and k**ers, n***a that's our gods So why fault a n***a like me for wanting to be a god too? Shoot a negro father from his son and take that same negro's son and put him on the corner and what do you get? Another n***a like me who don't give a f** about you It's about humanity not color Why leave these kids raised by single mothers? And look at me crazy for wanting to stay boxed in the community in which you placed me Placed us, penalized us, scolded us when you created the box I will no longer live in the box The generational curse will be broken Because I once told myself that the prettiest picture was painted on the plainest day Beautiful bliss and my wrist stroke my life's pain The struggles of success reaching for a higher plane Lord if you take me make me crash with Aaliyah plane And we will be set free Sincerely, us