Time Will Tell

[Verse 1]

It look like reparations

Not just in donations

It look like time, sacrifice, structural compensation

It look like cheaper loans on mortgages to make up for that homeowner's loan corporation

'Cause those ghettos, we made 'em

It look like less sugar coats and more Ta-Nehisi

It look like real democracy, no more oligarchy

360 deals used for enslavement doing 180's

Non-recoupable payments for all the years that you played 'em

It look like judging corporate efforts at еngagement done by black folks on thе ground who do the engaging

No more companies making rules, standards, and criteria

Then making ads telling us they hearing ya

Fuck outta here

It look like actually caring a lot

It look like their shitty schools becoming our shitty schools and actually integrating them so they fair

It's a lot, I know, but you asked and I'm telling you so don't back out now

It look like 'fore jumping to conclusions, hesitating

It look like excavation, digging up your inner hatred that this nation gave us

Stop pretending it ain't there

It look like validating your own pain and still acknowledging that shit ain't fair

[Interlude]

They like: "Tell me what it look like?"

[Verse 2]

It look like micro and macro working in tandem

It look like gettin rid of that racist-ass national anthem

It look like truth and reconciliation, word to South Africa

It look like admitting that our God is capital and abandoning faith

'Cause capitalism is white supremacy hype man

And it look like knowing where the fight lands

And if we won't give up bullshit American dream allegories in search of equality

Then it look like a saddening story

It look like leadership

It look like not stuffing our faces when they feed us shit we know is toxic designed to sedate us

Less talking, more being shit

It look like reading shit

'Cause there's no substitute for knowledge

You can't sparknotes a revolution, homie

Look are we in this?

It look like honest conversations 'bout what we would give

And you ain't gotta give your life like on the line

But you do gotta give it daily

Will you bleed this shit when it's off-cycle

Like do you mean this shit?

And this ain't the half of it

But I'm just tired of writing the same raps and shit for years

'Cause it look like amplifying voices ain't mine

And I'ma try 'cause well shit

It look like trying

And at the end of the day

If this shit look like dying

For this platform of mine then shit that's what it look like

'Cause I don't know how I feel but I know how I feel

And that shit look like crying

That shit look like asking why and worrying about my brother's safety

I would ride for him

So if it look like riding then shit it look like rioting

A lot of history just look like timing

Look around this could be ours

Go on pick your side then