My Victory

[Verse 1: MK Asante]

Woke this morning, claimed victory

Velcro that good energy so it stick to me

Sun shining, so, that shade don't get to me

It's a new day, I'm seeing things differently

Like, maybe some things wasn't meant for me

Or maybe they just wasn't meant to be

Always rep, bench-mark consistency

Consistently, Fed-Ex with the delivery

Open doors for Hip-Hop, that's chivalry

Flow take you another place, that's Tennesse

That triumphant thump that you can run with

They say it can't be done but we dun done it

My life's a memoir, Buck, kept it a hundred

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My victory

[Verse 2: MK Asante]

Feel the shift, pinky to keyboard

Devils shook 'cause I don't spit for lil' rewards

I spit for lil' 'cause booked across three wards

Dreams of seashores but sure never see shores

Navigate like Miss Jakes through life's detours

Bang a right at the light and round the applause

Thank you, thank you, far too kind

Man, they can't see us winning, far too blind

Beams of light still peaking thru faulty blinds

My Philly boys really sharper than porcupines

So, what's up? We tryna find a cookout

Look-out young bucks, get took-out on the crook-route

Got Bad jawns pulling my good book out

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My victory

[Verse 3: Maya Angelou]

Young women, young men of color

We add our voices to the voices of your ancestors

Who speak to you over ancient seas

And across impossible mountain tops

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My victory

[Verse 4: Maya Angelou]

Come up from the gloom of national neglect

You have already been paid for

Come out of the shadow of irrational prejudices

You owe no racial debt to history

The blood of our bodies and the prayers of our soul

Have bought for you a future without shame

Bright beyond the telling of it

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My victory

[Verse 5: Maya Angelou]

You are the best we have

You are all we have

You are what we have become

My name is Maya Angelou