In just a few moments, we will hear from the most powerful black man in America today
Everybody
I don't think you heard me
(Ay yo)
The most powerful black man in the world

Ay yo, they asked why I seem so solemn
On the throne between three stone columns
You know the name
Fucking up the game no condom
Everybody gotdamn first world problem
The truth is inconvenient as non-believers
Fearing DACA dreamers, instead of FEMA
A Bentley, Benz or a Beamer Fiji or Aquafina
We fuck around and be the next Iwo Jima
The tides rising at the same time like they synchronized
For making art, for making love, for making Hajj
The home is where the hatred lies, they taking lives
But everybody just so saved and sanctified
Then they rely upon we the few defiant ones
Communicate in the higher form than Viacom
To dialogue before the raw or the riot horn
I wonder on which side of the lines I belong
Lady Liberty face full of concealer
I'm half master killer and half you massa killer
Iatrophobia, that's a fear of the healer
Kaepernick is an activist y'all in fear of the kneeler
Everything's obtuse nothing is obscene
Another young life was lost on live stream
Another great fell from grace in high esteem
Then the clock struck thirteen
We in some kind of dream
First, I'm handling first things
The cipher what it means to a planet of earthlings
When a question remains am I journal or journalist
Herbal eternalist, Olympic tournament
Level genius, author? Affirmative
Though turning back and returning I'm not concerned with it
The permanent ink paved the way out the turbulence
My hands against the wall outside a billiards hall I hear police
Discussing whether to try and kill us all
I questioned if that would matter
Life is like a tree to falls in the woods
Even with iPhone footage to see it fall
Great men chose the Papermate Pen or the State Pen
The firing pin of a pistol aimed at a playpen
We go for musket to a missile to a revelation
Between heaven and Satan, while I'm steady creatin-
And trying to trying to separate the truth
From the lies that they told us
I even heard the Soviet's the 45th POTUS
That ain't the photo they showed us, or accepting the onus
If they Washington us, my condolence to y'all diplomas
Here's a bonus, the point of view to make things see through
If I'm a walking institution I'm an HBCU
Face the music keeping it moving is one of the great things we do
Yo the devil's trying to pull together his gang, me too
And whether you come from Lagos or Trinidad and Tobago
You can either stay broke or be wealthy as Jeff Bezos
If you just stay woke, I was in the dark then day broke
Directing questions to my ancestors, till they spoke now
Inherently rocking the disco currently
Bars is crypto-currency, hypnotherapy
Shittin' on everything, 5'9, 6'4 lyrically
Crystal clarity wonder how I spit so thoroughly
Stay so hungry, rappers can't get no mercy
That's the reason any other one who spit wont vs me
It's so lonely in my own class
"Formerly known as" is the inscription that your headstone has
On my own path, in my own world like Disney's
I feel the fuckin system fail just like kidneys
Up-steps the one who upsets all carriages
'Cause it's imperative we change the narrative
Ya and that's Thought vs Everybody
Listen, check it out, that go to everybody
I got myself over everybody
Ya, every goddamn body

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Writer(s): Curtis Brown, Deleno Sean Matthews, Minister Ishmael Muhommad, Tarik Trotter