They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking

Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking

Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness

Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit

Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from

No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums

Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum

Code switching by necessity for better outcomes

I ain't for bluffing, I come from nothing, colorful food stamps, corner store running

Sugar for grandma and something for munching, Section eight housing, park-board for lunches

Churches for dinner, house full of sinners, hand me down clothing from shelters in bunches

I saw a shooting when I was a munchkin, it was broad daylight and out in the public

Lived in conditions conducive to thugging, it made us super bad Fogell McLovin

Doing b & e and we weren't even teens, not very long before drinking and drugging

Excuse me for not simply selling you dreams, baking no muffins this gravy and stuffing

Travel in time how I speak to a youngin, bars aging backwards like Benjamin Button

They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking

Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking

Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness

Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit

Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from

No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums

Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum

Code switching by necessity for better outcomes

I speak for the people who need it the most, showing the streets that you reap what you sow

Bougie folks think I should leave 'em and ghost, avoid me as soon as they see that I won't

Planting the seeds that can lead to your growth, writing the novels that reach to your soul

Telling the stories that need to be told like a fitted sheet Brodie I just cannot fold

Talk in vernacular flip like a spatula to proper English to show 'em I can

Imperviously while in service to thee I most courteously prove to them I'm the man

All jokes aside it's a sign of respect to those buying the lie of a high dialect

Cut me a check and I'll come to collect but the snooty behavior is where I deflect

They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking

Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking

Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness

Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit

Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from

No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums

Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum

Code switching by necessity for better outcomes

They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking

Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking

Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness

Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit

Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from

No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums

Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum

Code switching by necessity for better outcomes