Free Skin (feat. Kimmortal & Sol Diana)

I found a poem in my skin

I'm a person of colours, synesthetic melanin

Storytelling riddling

Somewhere in the middle of flexing, reflection, a bit of love

What we're becoming and the kid in us

I found purpose in crisis

I fight curses with cursive, from worthless to priceless

Got pennies for the billions

Music is the medicine

Tomorrow isn't given, so forgive and be giving to fellow citizens

Each one, teach one

Freedom, freedom

I might not be young but I'll never be done

All things circle, season, season

Imagine if ancestors could see us

And how far we've come, and how far we've come

Even if we leave, don't mean that we're free

We're finding roots in our family trees

Systems try to bury me but they don't know I'm a seed

Grow

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

The breath-rhythm of my people

Clad in purple, storm-like, beautiful in my belly

The distance encoded in our DNA

Was supposed to fragment us

Like the islands that we hail from

Yet here we are

Lion-hearted

Lyric hurlin'

Melody swervin'

Balisong twirlin'

Barbed-wire pentongue

Beckon us to be

We are a template for smashing templates

In the temples of our youth

Are blueprints to smashing the emperor's temples

I wear my poetry on my sleeve

Like the translucence of our barongs

So come take a seat, beside me, kapatid

Come and read the poetry in our skin

Exhale the breath-wind of our kin

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

If tomorrow isn't now, it's always soon to be

That's why I'm always thinking that it's you and me

We could learn unity

And make more opportunities for our community

Some gratitude for getting through to me

We could think local and act beautifully

And collaborate not only musically

Hip hop's the best medium for revolution, see

Whether it's systemic confusion or mental delusions

Use the beats and allusions to beat the illusions

We didn't pay all these dues

Or all these dudes

Or make all these tunes for free

We still found food to eat

And made food to feed

The crew that knew that we

Could do it big with the truth we speak

I wanna start a school for the youth and save you a seat

Space where safety ain't a statement, to play in it

Poems in my skin, it illuminates

And I ain't sorry for the shade or the shade of it

So stay a bit

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

Poems in my skin

They all will teach me how to love me

You give me light

You give me soul

We could have freedom

You help me grow

You give me light

You give me soul

We could have freedom

You help me grow