I be counting compliments like they was calories on Jenny Craig

Scouting empty beats to bury my seed in the thread

Shedding skin, snake bites like a jealous writer

Writing empty songs that could blow yours out the water

I I sank your battleship

C’mon let’s take a dip

I will use my grammy as a microphone sink or swim

Now I’m just being grimm (reaper)

I’m Reed’s feature and he’s in a Mal Devisa t-shirt

Fuck an ep this is the masterpiece

This is a monument for all the kids who look like me

I’m talking serious, maybe it’s Maybelline or maybe it’s because

Without this beat I couldn’t fucking breathe

The music scene is so small ya big girl shrunk it

You knew my name since middle school. Who’da funk it?

But quit calling me famous I’m nameless I’m homeless I own this postpone this no bus money no phone

Drama’s daughter holy water yeah I’m relentless

Made a couple dollars selling white boys my setlist

They was in the basement blowing kisses to my fretless

They say you the misses I’m the mister let’s forget this

Every night check a city off my checklist

Burning down Birmingham next stop Texas

Every night check a city off my checklist

Ripping up the room then I wore it like a necklace

Lone wolf never be cute enough for family

Respectability my arch enemy can’t stand it

Like Brad Pitt and Jolie I adopt the blackness

Give it my last name and wear it like (no) blackface

And don’t call me an angel, I fucking hate baseball

My skin crawls deeper than a poem by Neruda

I used to write poetry and hopefully slam it

Now I rock the medicine cabinet dammit

Yesterday I tried to give my white friend cornrows

She said, “ow Deja” I said, “(bitch) you ain’t punk rock”

I’m Bad Brains you Sonic Youth I’m giving you the honest truth

I meditate in mosh pits and hesitate to talk to you

Hap-hazard half ass hands down the best

Breathing up my lyrics vapor rub on my chest

Put a hex on my ex now he talks out his neck

Voodoo chile what will you do next

Every night check a city off my checklist

Burning down Birmingham next stop Texas

Every night check a city off my checklist

Ripping up the room then I wore it like a necklace

My life my city my star my shine

(burning down Birmingham next stop Texas)