Our Kinara is solid, black candle's lit Meditating on the house Built from family bricks Ain’t no Homer Simpsons here No "TRAB PUK CIP" Heavy together like the pages in a manuscript Put em in a backpack get ripped from exertion Mom dared me to read science fiction written for older persons At a young age, so when i sunk in quiet as an old sage Back in middle school i had an excuse Dad was tempting us with coding, or vials of different potions Or robots singing “Daisy Bell” Capsela built for rolling He showed me possibilities for us were like the ocean You only need to build a buoyant boat and get to rowing And my bro’s the other running back for all those plays Salute Richmond’s promise maker: Dub.I.Goals made, yeah. I’m Issa Rae on SNL the culture on my back Tryna find a way to root for everybody black. U.N.I.T.Y.! Feathers flap together and fly U.N.I.T.Y.! We're above the top of the sky!

Who is the decider in your life? It's you. Only you can really pick the goal you want to get to And the how, when and why, every step which shoes Which stride, what's the tempo of drummer for this groove Analyze, what routine's gonna make you most fit to Make the moves that you still need to make to ascend new Frontiers in a journey no one else can Give you Live your truth and you will lift up your family and friends too One red, one black, candle with a burning wick And we all determined to control the way our thirsts are quenched Way before the chapters of the colonizers’ church were written We were pointing stars out with pyramids forged in earthen brick All we need for certain is each other and the will to move Practice what your passions preach and watch all of your skills improve building something wonderful There’s always something still to do So scope it out and get your tools and follow what looks real for you DETERMINATION It’s a tool for the free Make the choice and follow through on everything you decree DETERMINATION It’s a compass within Let it find you mission statements That you don’t want to end DETERMINATION It’s the scaffold of faith Build your gods into existence With your words and your makes DETERMINATION Gets you outta your bed Gets you out to the stars It’s your palace’s steps Who is the decider in my life it's me Only i can plot my plans on what it means to get free Gotta write my own, legend on the map big key Major minor sharps and flats let's get chromatic missing Not a single step, ascending this ladder to victory And I'll never reach the summit without family with me So i gotta keep an eye on the branches of this tree If I fall I'll keep attempting til practice presents ease Mshumaa [M-shoo-MAH-ah], One black one red Unpack lessons Ancestors left Build to blueprints Watch for acts of sabotage Who’s pushing you towards your goals and who dragging you off the walk Apply the keys inside your pocket and you got it locked Study steps along the beaten path and all the shrubs that’s not I carve a fork into the road As i deem necessary My soles seek form behind my soul anything less is scary DETERMINATION It’s a tool for the free Make the choice and follow through on everything you decree DETERMINATION It’s a compass within Let it find you mission statements That you don’t want to end DETERMINATION It’s the scaffold of faith Build your gods into existence With your words and your makes DETERMINATION Gets you outta your bed Gets you out to the stars It’s your palace’s steps Who is the decider in your life? It's you. Only you can really pick the goal you want to get to Who is the decider in my life it's me Only i can plot my plans on what it means to get free

America this year could use a lot more Ujima A lot more staying home self-quarantine, not Such emphasis on only worshipping the money gods A lot more commitment to survival via teamwork Denial makes disease work faster infecting masses and After the symptoms show it’s too late to delay the pathogen Shoulda been wearing masks or staying in unless your task’s essential But the master classes still frantic bout getting bags and ends If you out the house You’re driving in the Rona’s lane If it gets you i pray your symptoms are only tame Even if you feel recovered still slow with the pace cuz when you spread that COVID thing who knows who can’t blow it away I hope this song isn’t still relevant in 21 in 2020 turns out folks were having plenty fun clubbing or churching same difference when germs get in their lungs and spread a brand of hexing no exorcist can deliver from Wanna keep your loved ones safe? You oughta stay home for the Holidays. Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Home for the Holidays. Help me keep my loved ones safe I hope you’ll stay home for the holidays Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Home for the Holidays. Think of the life you'll have together after As you swipe your phone app to get a dasher Boston Market to fill in them holes from Instacart It ain't the way your grandma makes but you can say you did your part When next Holiday rolls around and she's still around For now? mom's recipe for sweet potato pie is out And here you are, over the stove like all them rap chefs On that tablet tryna replicate your aunt's dressing All the stress is internal nobody’s pressuring You only got your own nostalgia to impress tele-business casual dress code that means chest up U can’t set foot in gramma’s house in your sweats You gotta tell your folks, "I really can't go" And when they start to get insistent say "The answer is no" When we all get vaxxed Then you show in real life But for now, Mommy it's Rona outside I’m goin to hide! Wanna keep your loved ones safe? You oughta stay home for the Holidays. Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Home for the Holidays. Help me keep my loved ones safe I hope you’ll stay home for the holidays Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Don't go nowhere, stay Home for the Holidays.

You are flesh and blood, like your family and your neighbors You are not a coin or a number from a banker All of us are richer Together, combining labor Exploitation’s an unnatural Pathogen in the lake We gotta sterilize the water So it’s potable When the rain is higher tryto distribute it to most the bowls Cuz when you drink what’s meant for many You hyperhydrate And Hoarding sandwiches just turns nourishment into plague// Cheese spoils, bread molds. Lettuce wilts greens N2O Nitrous oxidize That means they’re toxic right Past your esophagus They gonna off your light So you better spread the feasts before unrest catches up, especially if u got ingredients, scale the recipe Cuz when too many get too hungry you get extra beef. I got a lil tip for how to make it big ( How to keep em pesky haters from breakin your ends Cooking up a revolution with a ladle mix I ain’t gonna stop til every neighbor rich Everybody rich Every everybody rich (who?) Everybody rich Every everybody rich (even you?) Everybody rich Every everybody rich (share the fruit) you ain’t ballin til you got it like this. In good times, make the table longer. In bad times, work for good times, and make the prayers stronger. Break bread with comrades there’s no greater honor Serve the pasta hot as the equator With some tater tots curate the pots for washing, put the plates into service Stay above the murky waters of these waves we’re surfin My mouth agape and I’m amazed when observing selfishness pretend to be some kinda statement of purpose Get money money, make money money money! Give money, money Take money money money Wake up from the cycle greed is not survival If you Drive the warmth away from your Life you’ll be ice cold And no one wants that on the thermostat You want a warm blanket And a thermos cap Hot cocoa socks so cozy Pot fulla roast beef Nana’s macaroni. I got a lil tip for how to make it big How to keep em pesky haters from breakin your ends Cooking up a revolution with a ladle mix I ain’t gonna stop til every neighbor rich Everybody rich Every everybody rich (who?) Everybody rich Every everybody rich (even you?) Everybody rich Every everybody rich (share the fruit!) you ain’t ballin' til you got it like this. If I'm eating, then my brother is fed. If he isn't I'll be starving instead. The Kinara is solid. This is candle 4. Let us feast upon a peace that’ll starve out war.

Nia is the longing of yesterday for tomorrow Today is a rental from fate you only borrow Clay’s still awaiting your hands to take form Like ndizi still awaiting the signal of rain storms Rain storms like a flag send saplings up to grasp For the sun, need a branch Need the air, need to gasp Photosynthesizing The light is the food Before food gets ripe And can lighten your mood Nia is the pigment that Comes out of my pen Modifying how the paper Interacts with the light Which informs the way my eyes Receive my scribbles and prints Which becomes the way my voice will interact with the mic I interact with the mic To turn sadness to hype To help your passions ignite To make my madness a spice For the harvest’s first fruit satisfaction delight I try to channel what the ancestors would Have me to write When you find your purpose You will bathe in light Any obstacle before you Won’t delay your stride Will you let your purpose Demonstrate your might Stand before the ancestors and Let them see their babies thrive Nia is Swahili for purpose So the meaning is urgent both timeless and current When you find it you nurse it On the grind til it’s hurting then rewind and rehearse it You align with the works That you design First fruits sold at the Market and you refined To a juice nourishing your Community through your light You could live this Or a million other lives You could be a builder Or a farmer or a scribe Whatever you find Within yourself to give the world Outside yourself it’ll be something That is felt by those who need it However we’re moved along This sheet music we’re inked upon The songs of our forebearers are a gift to those who heed em The oppressed’s calls for justice echo Louder than kings Most our ancestors’ dreams were even wilder than King’s With their lessons you will sow Many harvests to reap With their blessings you can reach Any star that you see Nia. When you find your purpose You will bathe in light Any obstacle before you Won’t delay your stride Will you let your purpose Demonstrate your might Stand before the ancestors and Let them see their babies thrive

I'm back y'all, i got raps y'all Jotted down on my pad or in apps y'all Do it fast y'all, to outlast falls Others shatter like glass, i don't crack, naw I just stack tall Victories up higher than giraffes, y'all I can't ease up quiet down or lapse, naw Every EP is an entry in a raffle If they were wack It'd have to be a scandal Call Olivia Pope It gets handled And I never misstep sneakers or sandals Even my errors correct Legit gaffes, y'all Nikki Giovanni vision, that's flaw less, sons blessed none test Meta's stats y'all Hot tracks from the band called MAV y'all When I am speaking this clear I serve facts raw even if they think that I'm weird I'm still BLACK y'all Y'ALL It's a lifetime appointment Ain't no sunscreen lotion or ointment My melanin has gravitational force that Even light can't escape When it locks its course They wanna be with a Mass this dense With a swag this crisp Pan African The Kinara is solid Six candles lit Let the whole world dance As i spat my spit Your blood cells got the memo too You hear the brilliance if it's polished or in demos too Live your truth on them haters, that's a scary flex When you're in tune with your power, pests can rarely catch, check it My very breath holds the sky. I am where death goes to die. May the ancestors smile upon my chosen life May every head that is nodding let go of strife, hold up My DMZ does not stand for demilitarized Dark Matter Zeta Vader fire from the Saber flavor They'll need Captain Marvel, Smarter Hulk, and plus a squad of saviors When they see my light beams emerging out of the darkness, anchors up! Get to sailing if you stand in opposition You gon fall if you keep tripping, or interrupting the mission I stand for the people, and not only for traditions I got living breathing sibs and am ready to defend them I wrote this riff in seventh grade so shout to Citrus Heights Play it out on any keys I come across to get me hyped Me and my bro been training decades just to get this tight Pro-athletic with the dedication to the mic and when i touchdown There had better be confetti Ambassadors from sevies gotta meet me at the jetty Seven hundred thousand party people at the ready Seven hundred thousand party people at the ready

Walk through the valley of the shadow. Believe that the sun’s on the other side. Know you aren’t alone in your battles. You’re a bright spot in somebody’s sky I don’t always feel faith. Sometimes i gotta conceal rage. Sometimes i gotta keep it cool or things get real grave Me even writing this feels, like a surreal page What is faith, Which ways can it bend? I got faith in my pen, i got faith in my friends Write a path of our survival, faith’ll transcend Block hostile energies, keep faith to defend What’s faith look like, Which ways can it bend? I got faith in my pen, i got faith in my friends Write a path of our survival, faith’ll transcend Block hostile energies, keep faith to defend. Faith ain’t just a building with stained glass and a steeple Let me show you by my works that i believe in the people I mean myself and my fam, The diaspora of africa; working class of all the nations On the spherical planet When the fear has been banished and we’re clear on the advantages Of loving one another And sharing our bandages For the cuts and wounds For when luck is something other than smooth And we need a little nudge to get through I believe that we can all learn and teach love Even at the precipice’s edge, we can reach love Steady together as we charge into the breach love Before and after it comes to that i will preah love Don’t wait to perfect it, you deserve to Let love lead and carry and even nurse you Have faith in the mirror, don’t dessert you Have faith in healing whatever’s hurt you What is faith, Which ways can it bend? I got faith in my pen, i got faith in my friends Write a path of our survival, faith’ll transcend Block hostile energies, keep faith to defend What’s faith look like, Which ways can it bend? I got faith in my pen, i got faith in my friends Write a path of our survival, faith’ll transcend Block hostile energies, keep faith to defend. In this year they curse, i wrote 96 verses 17 beats sweet enough to eat dessert with 55 songs up on Soundcloud or Bandcamp No questions bout the work you understand that Now if you didn’t before, and there’s infinite more Where that arose from unlimited stores ...My pen got more Liquid than the ocean Stick around, watch me work I’m finna show something Faith is tangible. Put your 7th candle to it. it’ll light with a brightness haters can’t handle viewing Shine on, regardless Starlight, we all kinda Star stuff, and if we share our faith it’ll be alright All eyes to the present A gift from time I’m the branch, sprouting fruits With the gift of rhyme The kinara is solid. Seven candles lit I wanna thank you all for taking this fantastic trip. Walk through the valley of the shadow. Believe that the sun’s on the other side. Know you aren’t alone in your battles. You’re a bright spot in somebody’s sky I don’t always feel faith. Sometimes i gotta conceal rage. Sometimes i gotta keep it cool or things get real grave Me even writing this feels, like a surreal page What is faith, Which ways can it bend? I got faith in my pen, i got faith in my friends Write a path of our survival, faith’ll transcend Block hostile energies, keep faith to defend What’s faith look like, Which ways can it bend? I got faith in my pen, i got faith in my friends Write a path of our survival, faith’ll transcend Block hostile energies, keep faith to defend.