There's no solid situation

People are aging

The roots have been lost

Yo where I'll have my brothers when I see them on the corner

It's a movement every time we chill in the front of the building

Elders and the children hungry for the knowledge

Catching jewels from the lessons

Like ciphers and collars they keeping close to they chest

Like that presidents we talking showing and proving

You know clear evidence every time we spark revolutions of the mind so dip into your soul and let it shine

Focus on your goal like you see a dime pass

Keep your mind on your riches and not only fine ass

Devil come up with the lies don't let him kill you high

Erosions of the mind got you wasting your time

Can't unlock the prison if you can't decipher the design

Vultures prey on weak minds

Time to get your flavor on start knowing the time

You know when griff had to go it was done by design

We gon' move on up

We're not gonna stop

Keep on moving up

'Til we reach the top

They always wanna tell me baby it's too late

You shoulda got your reparations way back in the day

You wasn't exactly what that be

When we were getting lynched

For trying to vote

Or getting pinched

For being black in the world doing black codes

Singing songs of survival doing Jim Crow

You know him and really shoulda been lynched

We been staring them down and yeah they been flinched

I see you want our revolution to be peaceful

But it won't have nothing to do with us being equal

Sometimes you gotta fight for what you know is right

Especially when people are deceitful

Communicating the hate through subliminals

But it is clear who gets treated like a criminal

From the day we are born getting fed on lies

Aimed at destroying our community through rule and divide

We gon' move on up

We're not gonna stop

Keep on moving up

'Til we reach the top

I see 'em

They want destruction of autonomy

Community discussion, immunity is nothing

Let me see who's on the button

A cabal of resources we offer

Oil, money, water and power

And governments will be devoured through debt

Under the prospect of people they protect

Who later become collaterals

Can't cut the check

Set up a corporation that acquires the land

Buying lots in the hood

And leave 'em undeveloped as a plan

The junkies move in, property value goes down

You don't recognize the villagers in your town

The good stores leave while the families grieve

Over a scheme gone wrong when they were just trying to eat

The program trauma runs so deep

On repeat, can't free yourself, it's like that, see

The rest check the air, you're privileged to breathe

And roll up your sleeves and put in work and believe