CHORUS: Whole Backpack/ Red, black, green knapsack   VERSE 1: Yo/ whole backpack Red, black, green knapsack COINTELPRO tracked that Since 16 he had rap Won’t displace by people, place, and period Shift forms a myriad Code switch chameleon Kept appearances:  polite in po-light/ Monolith or spectrum pans out you know right Had to see to do on ready, fire, aim Dehumanized more than alibi/ FMRI tame Written under your bandwagon/ Stand in sound canonical/ plant cabbage Heavy weight baggage can manage type cat/ Grandfather a state champ boxer at that Limitless/ cats don’t have an inch on us A psychonaut/ I grip the mic or not respect indigenous Land foot on/ wildest dream Ancestors built from soot up so we stood up   CHORUS: Whole Backpack/ Red, black, green knapsack Whole Backpack/ Red, black, green knapsack   VERSE 2: Uh Another hip hop rhythm spin/ his diction Wonder what pot he was simmer in Connect to inner rhythm/ no evading this Stationary/ light patterned shifts and laid in it North Star reflect water/ wade in it Ambulance late/ home I was made in it Mixed scrutinized/ measurement marble sized Blacker than the one drop seem through his father’s eyes Loving vs. Virginia still a splinter/ Benefits and burdens/ losers and winners Hip hop not some pedigree/ I construct complex leverings and shift melodies Indelible antecedent to the well meaning I meld dreaming with singing/ Close eyes heart seeing Part breathing:  rise/ bread leavening Siphoning a set of things/ Whatever you’re measuring   CHORUS: Whole Backpack/ Red, black, green knapsack Whole Backpack/ Red, black, green knapsack   VERSE 3: ESHR sketch/ gesture drawer Cat can’t flex at all Fly high with a wrist flip Just me/ not stepping with my stance at ya Gift shop/ I’m wrapping the chancellor Emancipatory methodology Harnessed epistemology Tuned to harmony Only tautology if taught to me? Pair of intersecting docks Socketed in what the problem is/ Wound untended trauma soma was harming him Alarmism/ Black cats drop heard wisdom Whirlwind shifts/ just a way they try to lynch us Epiphenomenon of pieces in motion/ Like an engine:  us

VERSE 1: Young, gifted, and Black The syndicates back We Finna spit facts We need to relax Intergenerational trauma bridge tolerance Modernist/ spawned Neoliberal apologist Black power the motto is/ they follow us Inside innovators like Frida Kahlo is Against the wall somethings got to give Movement checks pulse signs vital/ For all of us Show up out loud like Apollo is Circumnavigate hate to pull the God out of us To fill hollowness/ Racial capitalist state: I’m a hip hop ontologist   CHORUS: Told to give it all Til there’s nothing left Flip the script/ step Pour from my excess Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain’t counted us Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this All the capital infused/ Rhythm amount to this Straw broke camel Ain’t about to give youth Ain’t about to give youth   VERSE 2: Our ancestors built on like a bone That healt wrong/ cat’s broke But feeling/ hopes revealing an open ceiling Tangerine slice peeling Mind’s eye materialing When I was 15 Used to count rhythmic stitchings Feet pressed pause start lifting shifting/ her hips swing Hip hop fixings not fixed things Rhythmic counterfeit Reproduced resistance Reinvented litmus Water breathed viscous White litmus I’m tired Dealing with bullshit mission Script flipped quick   CHORUS: Told to give it all Til there’s nothing left Flip the script/ step Pour from my excess Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain’t counted us Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this All the capital infused/ Rhythm amount to this Straw broke camel Ain’t about to give youth Ain’t about to give youth   VERSE 3: Got a saturated flow And it’s made to GO Hip hop stenographer Jogging Arbury on the way home Black excellence is met with this White supremacy colluded with Infiltrated institutionally Too Hoover reminiscent More than really Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Assumptions got him bugging Check rock discovered through Through muddled hovering Blue line shuddling See schools shuttering Double troubling Hip hop has begun again Navigate cultural cap Exacted flow Masterful Put the city on the map and go Exacted reactive Shattering random/ candle lit Interdependent system overlap Conscious vivesect   CHORUS: Told to give it all Til there’s nothing left Flip the script/ step Pour from my excess Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain’t counted us Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this All the capital infused/ Rhythm amount to this Straw broke camel Ain’t about to give youth Ain’t about to give youth

CHORUS: Verse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch verse   VERSE 1: Mitigate/ inner hate Let it ventilate When a mental break accelerates Angst resets to blanked slate Share narratives across barrios Reverse:  deconstruct/ threat type stereo Familial scenarios/ searching for material Programmed fear of you/ automatic fury calls Involved mundane miracles/ mirror through line Many channels/ gambled hands filled Potted self til a man held Tightened strings/ tuned to doom Loomed to you/ ventriloquist got rubrics cube Qued to mood/ shoed past pitfalls Potentiated projections/ intersect in vivesections Elected into a micro-aggressed collective Measuring fleeting gestures/ sequestered as conjectures/ Obsequiousness festered into the evil of two lesser   CHORUS: Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She expressed They expressed Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She versed They versed Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She expressed/ they expressed She versed   VERSE 2: Dream sequence proceeds beneath the rush Not okay like Texas Board of Ed/ Deleting us Texas McGraw/ fugitive obsequious Racial neutrality means you didn’t speak with us Systemic substituting/ I’m parachuting Racism is brooding Systems of reality glued in I’m hip hop and this is music Another Black and Brown sentence In the school to prison nexus Sections of history amended like anti-CRT henchman (If you can do it) Chi-town transcends tremendous menace If you can do it / and keep it fluid And two shoe it/ I’ll give you a tulip The same meaningless conversation is sparked And though MLK day is still marked On the calendar/ struggle’s below the surface We’ve all configured these answers that are perfect   CHORUS: Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She expressed They expressed Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She versed They versed Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She expressed/ they expressed She versed   VERSE 3: Vississitudes leveraged/ Solicit a dimension Best left to a reverend (Reverse, scratch, verse, graf) Still unequal and separate Facilitated oppression And education is the method (Reverse, scratch, verse, graf)   CHORUS: Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She expressed They expressed Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She versed They versed Reverse, scratch, verse, graf Reverse, scratch, verse, graf She expressed/ they expressed They versed

VERSE 1 Remember when they thought it was scientific to measure our heads again?/ from marble counting to SAT routing - oppressive this method is/   Tried to put us in the middle/ to pawn our peace as racial capitalism/ From civil disobedience to systemic radicalism/ Tried to keep us from the light and we had to grow wisdom shade of violet/ use to sit on the back of the bus so whites to the front of the riot/ policed and ignored/ in addition to racist 5 0/ like Bettina Love - liberation means more than survival/ the movement checks pulses for signs vital/ white moderate - will they join us this time? how would I...no Inflicted sickness/ we already know what COVID is kid/ still no plan to address racism in this countries vision/ more than a blind spot or a detour I should mention/ They traded in their white sheets for a badge to get protection/  Just a racist henchman/ learning this is the classroom I’m guessing/ white teachers preach anti-Black self hate and testing/ Unlearn while liberating with light is twice as hard/  “You asking me about freedom?” thinking im a Midnight maraud (Er?) ‘Merica has looted    CHORUS: In the mist of COVID - premeditated white supremacy/ 500 years and being black still means your the enemy/ Protest! Look around - whose standing next to me/ When a Black man mentally ahead 5 centuries/ white accomplices to the front instead of me/ From being led to BAM BAM put some led in me   VERSE 2 America looted Black, Brown, Yellow, and Red for centuries/ “it’s elementary - they want us all gone eventually”/ Black and brown youth lead the movement and it’s still separate pathways/ “A few geniuses from the rubbish”  type homoeconomicus math stays/ We Black: come in vast shades/  Shore watch the crashed waves/ Life at a fast pace/ Peace through war these past days Ain’t nothing new/ you and me can’t talk I don’t associate with folks Harriet Tubman would have shot Rebel leaders labeled dissidents/ For dreams to shift reality lived in/ Uptop rocking/ Transformation forgotten   CHORUS: In the mist of COVID - premeditated white supremacy/ 500 years and being black still means your the enemy/ Protest! Look around - whose standing next to me/ When a Black man mentally ahead 5 centuries/ White accomplices to the front instead of me/ From being led to BAM BAM put some led in me   BRIDGE VERSE Yo here we go Drop a hop scotch/ butter in the pot with it/ Often rhythm rocking type starter kit Careful for folks who tried to martyr him/ Alarmism bargaining chips Only represented tranactionally/ yo weave Cultural capital rationally/  Notice how they said they mastered mcs? Rock it off the type known to rhyme/ Drop passionately/ They faster than me/ Rhythmic causality to duality/ It’s a nice use of pot pourri  Violates materialistic fallacy/ Check pattern they said was random/ Pre get your hand out of my pocket/ I clock in like early COVID shift in stock tips

Overlap crosshairs on Black bodies/ if Too clear and organized their react violently Yo/ don’t be too inspiring:  kiln firing New firm in town hiring/ I ain’t dialing Styling poetically/ for itself kinetically Soil sow/ let it seed Many pathways meet meta-sync Black box of patterned plastic sabbatical/ Meets slashed package/ and fast rapping Racial capital trapping, freedom fighter tracking Positionality mapping/ resource matching Hip hop lyricist/ rhyme schemes myriad Make sure their hearing this Black principles mirror this Habari gani/ communal interwovenness How ancestral lineage is tied to what voting is I hope with openness/ differentiate prototypically Excavate history/ unpack intricacy Frames of imagery/ embrace symmetry Different phased mentally/ brother is endeavoring Excavation of his own identity in his own skin/ Meant to be

CHORUS: Of the truth in me/ Light falls ruthlessly   VERSE 1: Orbital ventriloquy Words formed ethereally Sculptured materially At pier pondered unseasoned scenery Lightness of skies machinery Time escapes with thievery If it’s consecutive relatives Then what’s graffitiing? Counterintelligence programmed For certain melanin’s/ adrenaline again Rather sell a brother to the pen Then let Black and Brown seeds settle in If it weren’t for your meddling irreverence Leverage lassoed reticence/ With a dash of tabasco and severance   CHORUS: Hip hop soliloquy Deconstruct antiquity Dark from light epiphany Shadows cast indifferently Of the truth in me/ Light falls ruthlessly   VERSE 2: Found leviathan/ Leave him in piles then Phoenix filing/ Vivisect survival in Compartmentalizing tiling/ Reviling what they’re mired in A complex about his complex In his smile when   CHORUS: Hip hop soliloquy/ Deconstruct antiquity Dark from light epiphany/ Shadows cast indifferently Of the truth in me/ Light falls ruthlessly   VERSE 3: Riot went a violet in rifle surprising revival/ Segregated infrastructure intersects Chicago’s vital Lines like Secobarbital/ Fred Hampton’s martyrdom Not a single apologist from the government/ Now with a smarter drone With a silo-shelled hologram/ hauled within Howling song:  dawning slit/ No solving it Self-started kit/ Mind gardening Tool sharpening/ tried harkening Back to the alarming/ pardoning behind bargaining Harvesting without targeted/ Un-futured suturing/ of the truth in me The light falls ruthlessly

VERSE 1 Hip hop post revision Narrative future beginning Belittled spinner Saw the big picture to them Pieces weren’t fitting Seek to enlist you Tricked, masked, and camoflauged Used to play bad at pogs In college the napped Abstract vagabond Can’t stand the ground you’re Standing on/ Man of gods Moratorium on meritocracy I weave in cypher/ raise discourse Higher like Socrates/ get off The wheel/ can’t mold clay Hegemonic pottery/ fertile Learning ground/ No lobotomy Beyond molded CHORUS Vetted for bets/ settling threats Used to call me concept Peddled to settled like chess Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets Like he ain’t measuring death Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X Interrupted institutionalized so called Non-partisan artifice/ either remain A narcissist/ or unplug and run All the risk/ pictured addiction As a mindless subscription to An unknown mission/ audition Of sadistic vision/ refracted Through space time Are they certain the skirmish Was finished? I’m Gladwell Said the big pond ain’t the litmus VERSE 2 Uprock bottle rockets and comets Vocab locks in like a comic Emcees make comments/ decomposed sonnets Writing back in the office/ soliloquies Of warring entity/ whole not sum like symphony Dripping in epiphany/ infantry Assembly lined and automated Seated on train operated by Fractle doppelgänger Lineage linear/ racial paradigm Unphased/ who is unnamed? Still in the crosshairs of the mundane CHORUS Vetted for bets/ settling threats Used to call me concept Peddled to settled like chess Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets Like he ain’t measuring death Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X Interrupted institutionalized so called Non-partisan artiface/ either remain A narcissist/ or unplug and run All the risk/ pictured addiction As a mindless subscription to An unknown mission/ audition Of sadistic vision/ refracted Through space time Are they certain the skirmish Was finished? VERSE 2 Vetted for bets/ settling threats Used to call me concept Peddled to settled like chess Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets Like he ain’t measuring death Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X Interrupted institutionalized so called Non-partisan artiface/ either remain A narcissist/ or unplug and run All the risk/ pictured addiction As a mindless subscription to An unknown mission/ audition Of sadistic vision/ refracted Through space time Are they certain the skirmish Was finished? CHORUS Vetted for bets/ settling threats Used to call me concept Peddled to settled like chess Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets Like he ain’t measuring death Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X Interrupted institutionalized so called Non-partisan artiface/ either remain A narcissist/ or unplug and run All the risk/ pictured addiction As a mindless subscription to An unknown mission/ audition Of sadistic vision/ refracted Through space time Are they certain the skirmish Was finished? VERSE 3 Experiential visions/ in front of mirror Rendered invisible/ tossed to own drum Epistemic step in ecstatic lyrics Mural of many miracles How are we to deconstruct What he has thunk? If I uppercut this subtle Racist fuck/ I may get cuffed Still spiraling/ used to pop Prescription solution recycling It will ruin the environment Realize you were piloting A depersonalized campaign OUTRO Were they certain the skirmish Was finished? I’m Gladwell/ said the big pond Ain’t the litmus/ minuscule individuals Taught to internalize oppress Unlearn, untuck Accentuate new mental gate Share narrative/ liberation loaded Beloved communities/ buried seeds Open/ rise up unapologeticly

Eshr Sketch Organic flow VERSE 1 Hip hop epistemological/ deontological/ non-apologist Cultural capital weaving is logical I’m on top of flow / states Dream scheming ate Technocrats in a stew earlier/ plates Multiple/ lauded consultant Of disaggregated prioritization gains Petitition to redress / met with snipers Our preacher’s tessellate Imma show these cats what assumptions is/ systems of reality bum rush the undiscovering/ CHORUS Numbering folders/ burglar furtherer Expected merger / certain leaves Island deserter / heard furniture Mental modes/ shift sway Ggntle load/ all guess set Dismayed from adjacent note/ a stasis sown/ I may ergo an off the chassis bone/ shift grace sense hold A patient poem / until I may unfold VERSE 2 roll em up/ wonder Is these rap cats bold enough? War or peace / and we ask How is you holding up? silhouetting dialectic/ ideology of measurement Soliloquy of deep culture and Ancient medicine/ denizen Decoy / deliberate detour/ I share the sentiments/ irreverent meteor / President I’ll impeach your CHORUS Numbering folders/ burglar furtherer Expected merger / certain leaves Island deserter / heard furniture Mental modes/ shift sway Gentle load/ all guess set Dismayed from adjacent note/ a stasis sown/ I may ergo an off the chassis bone/ shift grace sense hold A patient poem / until I may unfold Verse 3 Folded mental gate Spring fourth accentuated To what’s relegated and Envelops natives / in this hellish brain dead Society/ Impiety is a lie you see And the stars in the sky in me are dying free / with or without this news anchor Adjacent to Morduch’s banker Use us to divide them/ The language we are mired in/ Leaves us more or less tribal then Irons hot to the highest bid So it’s the poor on trial then 1 percent getting higher when At the base / spiraling Put violet in rifle then shift grace sense hold A patient poem / until I may unfold shift grace sense hold A patient poem / until I may unfold Numbering folders/ burglar furtherer Expected merger / certain leaves Island deserter / heard furniture ESHR sketch patient poem / until I may unfold

CHORUS Obliterate prescribed rhyme Tic tac toe / rewrite for freedom No expost Black though Shift levers/ should I appreciate? Make sure you Got the right / problem Before you alleviate Status quo representational Shift forms and twist norms with six arms spit strong/ a poetic mission just us in on/ democracy been flawed Tried to out hound us/ around us Water swimming in / Black power: yes Tremendousness / It’s systematic How these cats will try to limit us Flipping this / They thought I was this timid kid Spit clearest images/ Reconnecting our villages Decolonize / recognize Who the real pillagers From chaos to hits coder/ Since this old sir Mirror in line measuring / In the doorway Light source gathering Pattern rings like Saturn Clamoring/ waves centripetal And the moon with a hand In it / Tacit in the assumption of system bumping/ no fixing elicited listlessness Cats mission to diminish Black Übermensch They knew they’d miss Wanted humanness Without the dudu dish Stop shooting us/ Beat Rhythm / clock pattern maddened/ abstract cloud Glacial ocean/ borrowed pattern Authoritarian regime: suppression More than a hand in it Being pulled / couldn’t hammer it Patterns round / conglomerate Wheel throw til self / hold Schematic / Molotov: pottering Light from dark seemed modern/   CHORUS 2 Shoulder / while she past Erlenmeyer flask Shirk this vile trap Berserk like Why no mask?   VERSE 2 Tried to trap light / Pull the God Out of him/ storm settle several Droughted vegetables /design new line Telephone/ push button To set the flow/ dialed in To hyper contextual/ Da balm Hits hair follicles/ ready For theater / Apollo show/ Immo flow/ remarkable timing Natural alignment / sow You’re the guy / who sauntered by Seeded sow / no alibi Rise / no shallow tide and Scintillating / on some I shall not hide reworking / subversive sure means shirking Eorthiest furthering’s/ hurdling Pages of history With her nurturing/ wake To some sir murmuring/ spiritually Stirred certainties/ inner city Emerging theme/ laissez faire Absurdity/ eye like From curve you see/ highlight The heard verbal scenes/ fly Merged circle / speak fertile Paternal hegemony/ obliterate CHORUS ! Obliterate prescribed rhyme Tic tac toe / rewrite for freedom No expost Black though Shift levers/ should I appreciate? Make sure you Got the right / problem Before you alleviate   CHORUS 2 Shoulder / while she past Erlenmeyer flask Shirk this vile trap Berserk like Why no mask? Flip levers/ should I appreciate? Make sure you Got the right / problem Before you alleviate Shoulder / while she past Erlenmeyer flask Shirk this vile trap Berserk like Why no mask?