The Cost of separation, the Appeal to Division
Equality, the slumbering ravine, it peels away creativity
Until we all are sleep, pushing the game
The recurring game of catch up, until when we catch up it is no longer sweet
Cultivating a public black voice
Motivation is the foundation to progression
Knowledge of black power is our weapon; to shoot back is your choice
Pure art lies in our color our race make a change keep the pace
Parents pushing kids to get a job, earn a place
But Knowledge is the way
Yet we continue ignorantly in a race
A race to entertain in a racist entertainment
So who are we?
We are the founders of change on this earth
Not a generation of thugs, or fresh girls who “twerk”
In the shadows our culture lurks
But we are dictators
We stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds
We are the creators of this nation
It is a peculiar sensation to live our lives in character basing
We are the roots
The task is to find and trace them
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression
So press in, press into the fine line we’ve let become tradition
We are prisoners of the mind
This isn’t an act
This is our lives
We can’t divide unless for the divine
Too transparent so see through into the broken mirror until you see you
Your courts in case now make your place
Race and gender inequality I’m not fond of thee
I’m just the light the guide to liberty I’m the prodigy
There is no need for any people to wear their pride beneath
Show us that path with in
We can cut off these freedom deciders like pathogens
So you paths ascend and that paths descend
Caged in minds are sick
Their deep engraved in graves as wide as time decides if we are truly free
And let our minds collide to defy the lies and in sync people, we can not father lies
Flee these false gods of government and uncover the scheme
We love American for the American dream, home of the free a lie that we believed
So why raise my hands up high in submission like I’m praising god
If we are equal minds
Welcome to the prisoners of the mind