brown skin baby...

Because you are brown

You were born in a trap

Set whenever you attempt

To obtain your freedom

Looking like a new book

New friends new mind

Trap says you can’t do it

You are not smart enough

You are not beautiful enough

You are never enough

You believe every doubt

As easily as you eat

Because you are depressed

You don’t even try to smile

Frown at your future

Fall in love with false philosophy

Feel like presence doesn’t matter

So might make self disappear

In a heartbeat

Because you never listened to wind screaming

Your life matters

But only if you love this moment

Make an infinity of right nows

Probably manana

Because you write you have to

Love palabras

Show silence exactly how you feel

Violence tries to kill everything

You already sacrificed

Because you thought twice

In that blink bounced

Better opportunities to build community

You need to start giving more hugs and kisses

Daps and pounds

Attack what attempts to censor your every measure

Gain knowledge wisdom from each lecture

Because you were stuck behind forced to play catch up

Game is over once final buzzer rings

Overtime when successful strategy get applied

Because you are tired too sleepy

To finish the work you have started

Rest in power to dearly departed

Welcome to babies who just arrived

Because you are breathing

Born to survive beyond ghetto existence

Next level constant elder elevation

Because you are loved

You must manifest

Ancient ancestors liberation

Blood humming inside you

Because you are here

You are vital to us

Because you are my familia

You have mi amor and trust

ju heard?

You heard

Dame la botella so we can get right

Pour me a swig so we wavy boi

Pause so I can get a sweet flick

I’ll swing all over the bars

Just to make a public spectacle

No belt

See my sweaty wedgie

Fuck it top 5 who really cares

We doing pole tricks til we get to the city

Watch out

I wanna bust my ass and look foolish

Clueless we dropping liqs everywhere

No respect for NYC

The city shits on me

Why I gotta care for someone else

Once I become major league

Gonna be a guaranteed block party

For everyone each night

I know the hood fucked up like me

Prospects for future all time high

I can get off ten deep on one bluntville

Ain’t nobody got time to be relearning shit

I already forgot

We out to the otherside

To do absolutely nothing

While saying very little

Although we gonna be loud as fuck

Costs to be down with cool kids

Privilege means you got responsibilities

And shit like that

None of them can fulfill

Except eager stereotype

You reject and confirm as you burn

Before during and after school

Lunch never tasted so good

Understand life expectancy of hood

Is hush conversation so consciousness

Camouflaged like cargos carrying nothing

Let’s make it happen

Chasing empty dreams on a path to perdition

In unjust system showtime with street rhythm

Brolic with nonsense to get most attention

Pretending never concerned

But deep down scorned by scars

That won’t heal

Won’t get too deep to reveal

Precise autobiography you don’t deserve

The truth only censored

730 act designed to convince you

Lack of currency urgently hiding

Courage easy to procrastinate

Except you are no longer young

With fewer options

Death has knocked too many times

You never cashed a blank check

Written to you dropped from holy heaven

You don’t believe in self

Much less fake friends

How will you make it

All depends