Homegrown

[Verse]

I'm America's worst nightmare, huh

I'm young, black, and too intelligent to be scared

I'm from back when you knew heavy, when you was near

And your circle been around, I could never produce a square, right?

I'm from there, you know how living there goes

Ribbons in the air, and love whipped in the O's

My man be sending prayers up, 'fore they given a go

He said he pulled a chair up and blow a kiss to the stove, mwah

All love like splitting his heroin with you

Oh, and they toss slugs to see if there's hero in you

I'm here to talk 'us' to see if it's beneficial

And it's really all love if you bringing some Henny' with you, right?

'Cause God bless what the Hennessy make clearer

Sitting in your chest while you sit out your day with us

The feeling that you got when you see what some cake get us

Or the feeling of you watching them tear down a slave theater, right?

They play shoot and get yours, then put you out of place

Knowing you is just taught to play hideaway

Like you don't come from the store, until you gotta play

My flowers over your thoughts, like Billie Holiday, hah

Either or, or until we up and gone

They calling 3-1-1, but they was colour drunk

I watched spots get turned to croissant sellers

Like how I watched pots get turned into card pressers

Tried to make it all make sense like more adderall

Wavy, no carry-over like I had a horn

Caught a way up with visions of forty jagers so know when I talk these, I add a Lee like Cannonball

Add a Lee, Cannonball? Never mind

That'll make sense by tomorrow if should you get the time

No ticking like we spent ten long on the ticket

I tick it like a Carmichael with it, and you stoked

I did it for the power of a lobby

Swear to keep it low unless I'm spotted like I'm Kwame, heh

I still never had to go and find a PO, right?

But my brother does, commissary honey buns

Trying to keep two-fifty with him on the up and up

No one is still Bill and Russell when it come to us

And what it was turns into what it be now

All that you become was given from what you be 'round

He said "Sky', I was just lookin' to get a lead out"

Try and get this run 'fore I kick it like it was three downs

I said "I'm tryin' to stop to get out, to play keep out"

Both of us was talking 'bout how we could put a knee down

His for the Scar, mine for the cause

Live for it all, a line from the door, heh

Word to the new Jim Crow and how parole go

And word to all the above, seen me homegrown

Homegrown for the sake of it

Know to keep it homegrown for the sake of it

Do it for home and all the shit that you make of it

Do it for home before they go get to taking it

Homegrown, homegrown for the sake of it

Know to keep it homegrown for the sake of it

Do it for home and all the shit that you make of it

Do it for home before they go get to taking it