Maternity line, Paternity line... I'll take BOTH... I wanna know EVERYTHING... Don't you?

(Verse 1)
I need some better info... I need some better evidence
About my heritage I wanna know my kinfolk
Blessed be the severed ties that bind, yeah them bonds been broke
My legacy is rich I just want my inheritance

Didn't grow up with that mentality, big family surrounded me
How bout that--- stayed on the boat and did not drown at sea
Or maybe part of me was already on campus and established
Colonizers crossin wires not knowing with which they tampered

Turned around and wrote history books and told us what's important
Historically, never trust the people doing the recording
Cuz a pirate washes ashore and they call him an explorer
And enslavement is migration, guess the slaves were looking forward

To a better a life like elder Christians, who swallow bitter pills
And physical illness by focusing on leaving this old building
...Wit a stack of outstanding bills in the kitchen
If you Black you can picture it so familiar wit the image

Who's familiar wit the business of putting price on a human life
Pullin out the broom, sweepin the room, no clues in sight
The operation is smoove, woulda got away wit it too
...Overseers overseein' education in school

Particularly history, they have no interest
In clearing up the mystery, that's like a shot of Listerine
To the common cold they cultivated; separatin
The past and present like they ain't related--- but as a melanated

...I hate this: I'm only once-removed from share-croppers
TWice removed from natives, thrice removed from the slave ship
My history is braided; any other time they'd wanna see me straighten it
They sure went out their way to cut and taper it

My DNA descended like a Plinko chip
I am the very product of mothers fathers, I think of them
When life offers options like sink or swim, I continue unto infinity
Never the end of me, cuz I have far too much identity

(Hook)
Base Black, Copper Trim, Base Black
Base Black, Copper Trim, Base Black
Base Black, Copper Trim, Base Black
Base Black, Copper Trim, Base Black

One Part from over there
One part already here
One Part from over there
One Part already here.

(Verse 2)
Atlantic Ocean gettin closer Black Star
About to drop another album that's a sign from Marcus and Malcolm
...But I'm just as close to Atlanta and Martin
I'd be leaving a heritage behind if I truly departed
...The way they taught it they brought us from out of darkness
How I see it darkness is in the hearts of the heartless
Not in the skin of the prophets the droppers of knowledge
They never taught us in college as they emptied out our wallets
In keeping with the legacy we sleepin with, this bad marriage
Integration was built on misinformation, it never had merit
...There was love but no commitment, to go the distance
Like #ALLLIVESMATTER--- the ever-inconsistent
I've always had reservations, come to find out
My great grandmother was a native, had to stretch my mind out
For two atrocities, conduct myself accordingly
Reset the written record then invite the family cordially
...But never forcibly, everybody ain't ready
To investigate ethnicity aggressively, slow and steady
Disclosing sources while I study that's important
...You got conspiracy theories, okay support em
I take bout 3 or 4 of 'em and look for common threads
...The loudest voices ain't always the ones who wind up dead
I notice patterns goin way back, like Simon Sez
I'm most definitely Black, but also kinda Red

Base Black, copper trim, Base Black
Base Black, copper trim, Base Black
Base Black, copper trim, Base Black
Base Black, copper trim, Base Black

One Part from over there
One part already here

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