Hope (feat. Joey Stylez, Q052 & Tribe NO GANG)

Half black and half native

Half my ancestors decimated.

Other half in enslavement

Fast forward modern days my people incarcerated

Still mentally in chains

Ancestral infliction

Alcoholism and drug addiction

Gang conflicts in the prisons

Systems Designed by colonialism

Divide and conquer the children

Hear the rhythm of the wardrum

Cause we living in a warzone where the women never come home

And they digging up more bones

Oh these babies and the poor souls

That was stripped from they own homes

They was left in the dirt by the Catholic Church

Man this shit hurts

When the damage is worse

Now my brothers bang on eachother and land in a hearse

My skin and blood Is a gift and a curse

My whole life been a fight to get it right

In a system designed for my demise by wicked minds and evil eyes

By wicked young and evil lies

We was tried In the fire survivors of a genocide

Battle hardened spirit of a warrior Inside em

The heart of lion

The Eagle is flying

Leading me and my riders

Hey yo hey yo I will never be broke Ayyyyy

Yo I always got my dogs back

It take a mighty man to never lose hope Ayyy

you too soft better fall back –

Steel and iron that is my blood type

Success is callin’ I got hella appetite

Fire and ice woooh that is my blood type

Love my brothers yo I got em for my whole life

Got the memory in my blood leaking outta my wrists,

Thinking about it to myself, how’d it get to this!

Got my jaw clenched tight and I squeeze my fists,

As my life squirts out, I begin to slip…

Battlefield, fighting these demons in silence,

Thinking about my people and the lateral violence.

Shame that I’m living is completely mindless,

Looking through, inter-generational blindness!

I wear the scars of the past of the colonial mission,

Brought up in the Rez, I’m a product of the system.

See its a tax free spiritual prison,

Designed to create a fog, cloud our vision!

I weaponize my words like the bullets in a gun,

My mind is the trigger and the pin is my tongue.

A warrior on the field needs air in his lungs,

So keep my heart beating like the beat of a drum.

Hey yo hey yo I will never be broke Ayyyyy

Yo I always got my dogs back ‘

It take a mighty man to never lose hope Ayyy

you too soft better fall back –

Steel and iron that is my blood type

Success is callin’ I got hella appetite

Fire and ice woooh that is my blood type

Love my brothers yo I got em for my whole life

Went off my meds can’t leave my bed

Wishing I was dead only thought in my head

Dazed and confused and it’s not just a mood

Used to have my shit together now I’m coming unglued

Drown my sorrows with a bottle tryna stay afloat

Broke my girls heart n spirit and I’m using dope

Begging crying for creator ...losing hope

Threw myself a pity party well I hung the rope

I been there my Natives feeling all alone

I lost my kids and my crib and a cell was my home

was gone and it’s all my wrong

Cree warrior in blood so I had to stay strong

If you walked in my moccasins I pray for you

If I climbed out that gutter brother you can to

This native living proof steady speaking the truth

There’s more to life I swear my Neechies so I cut down the noose

Hey yo hey yo I will never be broke Ayyyyy

 Yo I always got my dogs back ‘

It take a mighty man to never lose hope Ayyy

you too soft better fall back –

Steel and iron that is my blood type

Success is callin’ I got hella appetite

Fire and ice woooh that is my blood type

Love my brothers yo I got em for my whole life