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the elijah - a.p.c. "a paid catcall" lyrics

[intro]

[verse 1]
sunrise on my mental
they shift my value and claimed it as a revenue
i shift perspective in contemplating new ways and going to buy new j’s but let me turn a new page
scripted is my story
mandatory on touring
i knew my presence anointed
or simply just poignant
i saw a woman today
bad as h-ll had to say
claimed knowledge as my truth if she listened to me today
i said equity is my verse
melanin is my curse
to them i am adverse
and reaching into their purse
chains carried a stunt
men carried the brunt
and isms distracting truths just carried a cold front
she said
i understand what you doing here
you think your knowledge grants you an approach and pays your entry fair
you’re wrong my n-gga and i’ve never been so simple i’m about to burst mental like a teenager popping pimples
i’ll connect the dots
i expect a lot
division has set in
and i refuse to stop
you see my story is lost
and my tomes are locked
i get no recognition for agency at the top
i am woman you see
ebony and beauty
i make all creatures of the land bow down direct before me
i do not f-ck with society twisted economies
but i will break through the system to simply follow my dreams

[spoken outro: umar johnson]
wait a minute now. don’t confuse the cultural nationalism with the organic nationalism. and i know ya’ll see this a lot in the hip-hop community, brothers got the dashiki, hair lock, african name, been to kemet, but what you doing’ for black folk, you dressing’ the dress? take that halloween costume off, and what are you doing for black folk. cause it’s easy to look cultural, it’s easy to be black during kwanzaa, it’s easy to be black, you know, during black history month, it’s easy to black when you’re around all black folk, but do you speak truth to power when you’re around white folk? see i’m looking for the organic people cause this whole hotep thing. we are disrespecting black consciousness and black culture by not doing anything besides spreading the information. that’s all you hear, information. go on youtube, information, information, that’s good we need knowledge of self, but we need inst-tutions, where’s the hospital brother, where’s the shipping line, where’s the distribution network. don’t just keep hoteping me to death. give me something that’s going to help the people. cause if all you got is information you no better than the church. we keep talking about how the church is just swim-swaming black folk, you doing the same thing. the pastor preaching and you preaching. you ain’t got nothing’ for the people and neither do the pastor

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