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