Black Professional

Be careful be careful be careful ****

Said there’s a lot of things you need to be aware of, ****

Situations you ought to be scared of

So listen up, cuz I’m about to talk that ear off ****

They finna give you that promotion before you got the credentials

Just off the strength of your charisma they conflate with potential

They’ll give you more than they intended to

With no one there to mentor you

And if you don’t succeed they’ll get to say it wasn’t meant for you

But that money make you look like royalty ****

Its a lot of girls thats bout to test your loyalty, ****

Might even be one of the women that employ you my ****

She’ll give you all the tools you needed to destroy you my ****

What doesn’t kill you make you stronger though, you’ve got to believe

That something positive gon’ come from all the things you achieved

If you ain’t satisfied with all the things you ‘bout to receive

Then come to me, lets get you working on that second degree

Cuz that’s real (yeah, yeah)

You gon’ need to fine tune a few more skills

Before this feeling gets real (yeah, yeah)

You gon’ have to jump through quite a few more hoops

Before this feeling gets real

We don’t do no handouts, you gotta stand out

Before it gets real (yeah, yeah)

You gon’ have to pause, step back, and regroup

You gotta do the work that no one else is tryna do

The tough the ask, the undesirable tasks

And stipends that make you laugh

The PDs and programs that put you in no man’s land

That put your name on the map, now **** know that man

Don’t leave a question ‘bout or stress about who gets a position

Just be the man in this establishment that fits the description

Make it impossible for folks to try to doubt your commitment

Holding more jobs than folks have worked in their entire existence

Cuz that’s real (yeah, yeah)

You gon’ need to fine tune a few more skills

Before this feeling gets real (yeah, yeah)

You gon’ have to jump through quite a few more hoops

Before this feeling gets real

We don’t do no handouts, you gotta stand out

Before it gets real (yeah, yeah)

You gon’ have to pause, step back, and regroup