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