I was born in Uganda

But I want to tell you a story about another man from Uganda, my father

You heard the words reverberate through the corridor

"Which side are you on? Which side are you on?"

Don't get your rights revoked, or lose your rights to vote

They getting dicey with you, don't worry

Icy with you, don't worry, don't worry

They talking politics, there's an enormous amount of rocks to kick

Hold this lift, my shoulders chip

This boy is special, born with a gift

My pockets is lint, my pockets is trim

White socks in the Timbs

He called the Ugandan ambassador

He said, you sent me here as a gift for our freedom

And they are fighting for theirs, it's the same struggle

That freedom and the fight for it is interconnected

Out the borough with the smelto, why not?

He make it art just like Shepeto, voila

I free the youth on instrumentos, papa

And free my dogs up out the kennos

We out the basement, baby, turn it up

Paper come and paper go, just burn it up

We reigning supreme, but I don't feel like you reigned enough

Reparations just ain't enough

Y'all just saw some baby stuff, help me hold my lady up (sho)

And as I look around this city today, I'm reminded, however

This freedom is only as good as our ability to exercise it

They be on some shady stuff, I just think they afraid of us

Don't get your rights revoked, or lose your rights to vote

They getting dicey with you, don't worry

Icy with you, don't worry, don't worry

They talking politics, there's an enormous amount of rocks to kick

Hold this lift, my shoulders chip

This boy is special, born with a gift

My pockets is lint, my pockets is strip

White socks in the Timbs

We don't want the in-between, it's freedom while we intervene

Advocate for the youth, I know what they mean

I know what they slang, and I know what they seen

Know where we going, and I know where we been

When you get up there, just hold it tight

Change don't happen overnight

Meet a spike and rattles bite

Tired of being treated like (we out of mind and out of sight)

Zebras never change they stripes

He the brand new candidate

And we watch it like it's anime

They smoking us in taxes, we ZF

Hold it baby, here's the vote

Don't betray me, give it back

Double whammy, I'm my nanny

This is facts, she been trapped in the system so long

I tell her to hold on, there's Mamdami

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford a hamburger?

What good is the right to live in New York City if you can't afford your rent?

If you can't afford your MetroCard?

If you can't afford your child care?

If you can't afford your groceries?

So I'm running to be your next mayor

So that you can afford this city