Prototypes - CYNE

Since my youth I’ve commenced and vibed with the truth

Inside, I was intense.

Youth was innocent

I bless with my mom’s arms, caress from forms of harm

Yes, we born to progress

I hardly can recall—partly from withdrawal trauma

Partly from the scum up, but my mama, she pardoned me

To see her angel take form regardless

Entangled in divided states

The storm of retarded hits the hardest

Conformed and separated in states they parted

On color lines.

My mother shine.

Listen (What?)

She cultured me to be divine.

I’m

Here to be sincere.

In time, I’ll disappear—that's fine

'Long as wrong has been declined and the unjust

Crushed, injustice rushed—this just us

So we fight on the slave ship from all that slave shit

United, leave this bitch.

Seen as you please

I bring my ease to this shit.

Please believe

This moment, they don’t want it 'cause we joining—it's an omen

Long as we lost, roaming.

Foaming in the dust

Zone-independent, we adjust to this unjustice

Sinning of recessive cloning.

Aggressive killer

The dollar bill the father of all falls

All divides choose sides.

We tryna change tides

We gain strides.

We aim high

No, this ain’t about bling, God

Nah

Nah, this ain’t about bling, God (Nah)

Nah, this ain’t about bling, God (Nah)

Nah, this ain’t about bling, God (Nah)

Nah, this ain’t about… It’s about redemption

Birth.

Acceptance.

Disturbed.

Great

Hurt.

Hate.

Break

We are, are, are, are, are… (African Prototypes)

Superstar, boom-bap rhyme fiend, misfit

Dark child, schoolboy write life, spit sick

Succumbing to world like boy does a girl, yo

Can’t live with or without this feel of

Solitude’s shrug—no love

See, they laughed when I finally spoke, so mom, I need a hug

Squeeze me and tell me I’m beautiful

Don’t put me in a class with people that’s cruel to

A brown-skinned immigrant.

I really can’t take it

«Yo, I heard in Africa, they run around naked»

Nah, nigga.

Fuck you—how can I coexist with ignorant

Assholes taught by a system acknowledging hatred and Bush manifesto?

That was like '89—it's hard to forget those days

In the classroom.

I’m writing down poetry

Words on a paper to escape pain close to me

Stres and he understanding truth in the gospel

Believing in Jesus—not.

Fuck apostles

I’m voice in a crowd.

Young, black, and proud, y’all

Redemption caught in the momentary bliss

'Cause the monetary world got a nigga balling fists

(Prototypes).

African prototypes.

(African prototypes).

Redemption.

We are (African prototypes. We African prototypes).

We are justified.

(African prototypes).

Realness.

We are (We African prototype)