sentencing begins

and i am pushed and pulled from all i know

and i shall rize

sentencing begins

you golden child

you with Africa on her skin

Haiti on her breath

and America dripping from her forehead and behind

but i'm the joke!!! you know i'm the one who use to skip school wit my friends running from hands......sssshhhhh

sentencing begins

i am pushed and pulled from all i know

and i shall rize

never knew her worth till

legs wrapped around her

screaming "stay with me"

beauty lies upon her like

the shine of a nu caddy

with twenties

but i am a joke!!!!i was the one skipping school wit my friends running from hands cause people is dirty so i got me a killa whos branding i wore like tattoos cause that is love and and i ride cause jobs give me headaches cause people is dirty and they think i'm dirty ain't nuthing golden bout street corners that light up at night or nasty houses that transport the mutherf***en dead see see you got it all wrong again!!! children raised on the dead and lonely where we all sleep in brick mazes funded by government (powered) milk cheese and peanut butter and i don't no shit about Africa or Haiti but they poor black and dying like me!!! i'll rise but i got ta get twisted first you dig!!! twist me some green and rise from the Buda in between the smoke baby!!! golden don't know nuthing bout golden

you are golden child

you with Africa on her skin

Haiti on her breath and God in her lungs

you who are woman

everything all and all

comes forth

you who are

triple blackness

rize

you will stand on thrones where kings sit

everything all and all you need

is birthed inside of you

rize

wood cracking like lighting bolts hitting trees

your sentence is life child

free will honey

free will

A nation can rise no higher than it's woman.....i heard it said i i i heard it said