Memorial

Reasonless oppression

They don’t know the weight of their words

How it could damage the soul on criminal accord

Putting them into the morgue

They bring us down to elevate themselves

The snakes hate to see us make our wealth

Break apart barriers staked in the chase

For a future, divided a minority we are

Past dreams making us raise up the bar

Mockery of us because of pants hanging off

Intimidated by us because of some slanging white rock

Kings of us getting attacked by cops

Jim crow would’ve made us drink water from a dirty mop

A prop in the screenplay called society

Ignorance from both sides caused our notoriety

Restricting our visions, still prescribing the past condition

Not the cure, nor are they working for one to be done

They haven’t won, not yet make them regret

Calling you the word that you weren’t supposed to get

Forget not the roots, those hung nooses had us spooked

I retaliate over a different type of loop

This is for the men and women with open eyes

That keep their ears and closed hands to the skies

We the people are responsible for our messes

But what we people learn from it, is timeless

[Hook]

They may knock you down

They may shoot you down

But you gotta keep pushing and pushing for that crown