It’s gon take us

To save us ,

I came to bare it all

So no make up or favors,

Do it on our own

Son we major we came up ,

From the ground nobody move

Or make a sound it’s going down,

Waiting on more blessings

I they forgot too soon,

Time to celebrate ,

Cuz Believers come to spot the moon,

Step into the room

It’s time to get active,

And let ‘em know that black is

Attractive

We just want control

Like Damita jo

Teaching all our kids what they need to know,

Waited long for the freedom song

You can sing it now,

The genius lives inside of you

Time to bring it out,

Never spewing nonsense

This is culturally responsive,

Work so let it work and stop

Working against the progress,

Keep the kids first

Bring water when they thirst,

Do everything with love

But sometimes it might hurt,

Some Talking equality

They saying it can’t work,

They don’t quite understand

This equity framework,

And they don’t understand

My spirit they can’t hurt,

And when we spread the truth

We’ll see who’s in danger,

Cuz The leaders of the world

They Look just like me,

And history gon back me up

I got all receipts,

As a child kinda wild

Could barely crawl I had to bring it,

Knew I wanted to fly

So I guess I had to wing it ,



And this is not a start up

We write in permanent marker,

you can’t erase me

Cuz This story I’m the author,

Plant the seed made a tree

I’m the mother and the father,

Branched out through the hood

And developed young scholars,

Cultivate the skills

Teach em bout identity,

Develop intellectuals

And joy that’s the energy,

Critical criticality

never forget the lessons,

I understand my power

That’s why I’m fighting oppression,

Fed up but don’t confuse

My passion with aggression,

Gave y’all a pass

But y’all wanna keep testing,

Nooooo

So now you still fail,

If we keeping Love first

You know the righteous will prevail,

Hats off to you

So you know I ain’t capping,

They teaching our kids

The slave trade never happened,

That’s why I’m educating

Most y’all just hear rappin,

But this is our culture turn it up

Let’s blast it,

Now we gon come together

they can’t lie to me,

New school black literary

society,

No more forgotten readers

No more forgotten feeders,

No more of his-story

In the books for knowledge seekers,

Yoooo

We need something that is real,

Something tangible

We need something we can feel,

We need to elevate

That’s why we headed up the HILL

We need to elevate

That’s why we headed up the HILL ( pedagogies )



Each one

Teach one