Yea

I been thinkin' bout my patience

And how it's hard to be the bigger person

Nowadays it don't feel worth it

When common sense is a rare occurrence

I swear the past is still hurtin

Blind devotions, numb emotions

Chronic pain deeper than the surface

What's the risk if I speak on it

What's the point if they dismiss it

Really think they'll move different

Morals fade as the funds appear

OnlyFans really made it clear

Bro money talks in sentences

The price you pay is sentencin

Racketeering that's ten flat

NIL got strings attached

Either sign a deal or push dope

And that's the only plan

Wasn't taught to flip investments

So he flippin' what he can

Then a badge can take his breath

And won't nobody give a damn

We ain't asking you to lead

You just gotta understand

That we broke through what they blocked off, we not playin' victim

Made the right moves and worked twice as hard, now we past what they predicted

I call that Colored Folk Tradition

Yea

Listen

Look, yea

Said we broke through what they blocked off, we not playin' victim

Made the right moves and worked twice as hard, now we past what they predicted

I call that

Woah

I call that Colored Folk Tradition

Yea

And don't take offense to this

I'm just sayin' we work hard

We redefined what work is

It's a steep climb from the start

Ain't no generational wealth

Ain't no level playing field

It take money to make money

But our bloodlines couldn't build

Jim Crow ain't give a chance

And now it's Uncle Sam

Redlining and tax games

And prisons getting jammed

We built the country's wealth

Still they takin' what they can

Diplomas don't defend you

When your skin can get you killed

They judge before you speak

They see color ' fore your soul

Only silence makes us weak

Still we rise and takin' hold

It ain't prideful at all

To be proud of who you are

But it's dangerous to forget

Just how we got this far

'Cause we broke through what they blocked off, we not playin' victim

Made the right moves and worked twice as hard, now we past what they predicted

I call that Colored Folk Tradition

Yea

Okay, okay

Said we broke through what they blocked off, we not playin' victim

Made the right moves and worked twice as hard, now we past what they predicted

I call that

Yea

I call that Colored Folk Tradition