Step by Step (feat. ZO1, 42k Lil, Freegame Vic & Baba Hodari)

Step By Step

Featuring: 42k Lil & Freegame Vic

Produced by Zoran Kollock & Krishna Dindial

(INTRO)

I think black love is hard. I think that we suffer from internalized racism so It’s hard for us to love ourselves. We struggle with interpersonal racism, genderism and sexism so it’s hard for us to love each other. Then we really have a hate love relationship with the institutions around us that support us. We don’t fully love them and we can’t say we hate them, you know what I mean.

Kahlil

We know

Black is beautiful back to bantu

Apply the crown to my head just like cantu

My people bend never break we tall like bamboo

Liberation lost souls just like we planned to

We been

Recreatin renaissance of harlem

But these days good art dont come from stardom

So its day by day

And its step by step

It get harder to fight but we aint done yet

I give it all to them cause they give it to me

They see it in my soul so they try to set it free

In a life of chasin gold then we parish from the greed

The love you show will grow its the soil to the seeds

I innerstand that them times do get difficult

Its real hard cause the struggle gettin cyclical

Live in the present cause our past wasnt typical

My spirit is a blessin im guided by who i listen to

Vic

Its like we been through it all and we been hit a wall

And freedoms not a drug but we been through withdrawls

The only thing you been doin is go through loss

And they finna be sick when i didnt go along

Im tired

But im still gon try it

They said its been too late like when you turn in yo assignment

Oppression with deception it dont turned into a science

The status quo confused you on what the real divine is

Kahlil

We got a legacy of lookin up like we the bottom line

Never believe its by an accident its really by design

You should decide if you’ll decode or just be told what type of life

You shouldve chose to free yo soul but we see whats on yo mind

That aint no accident neither

They take the teachers and preacers

And make amends with the corporations takin us deeper

Free yo mind and the soul gon follow its like the leader

And ima hold it down til the end thats for my people

Vic

Maneuver through it

Stick and movin

But im not in the ring

From east oakland up to harlem got an army of kings

Shadow boxing with the status quo its all in the scheme

That influence with this music bigger than what it seems

What do you mean?

We more than artists scoping the scene

You only lookin through a lense to when you cut and you leave

Dont duck for cover from we

Cause royalty what you seek

We at the point where it dont need to be said so you agree

(OUTRO)

So I just feel like we have a challenge. Love is a challenge. On all those levels, it’s critical. There’s nothing more important, more significant, more powerful or more impactful for our future than love. Love is the central reason why we were chasing freedom. Love is why we never wanted to leave the continent. Love is why we survived. Love.