Caged Birds - Tobe Nwigwe, LaNell Grant

Look, I spit a verse so a horde of heathens can find the light

But keep a pistol that tear tissue like it’s time to wipe

Don’t fret, my first step ain’t to resign ya life

Plus that pistol fye, don’t bar until it’s time to bite

Hell once you find a wife, you do what you must do

To protect her and keep her up off a stretcher 'til she due

To have a baby, glad a lady came up to me and said

«Congratulations don’t come to those rather lazy instead

Of hard working»

We all searching for affirmation

Some sheeple wander the atlas for validation

And valid statements from those who never will validate 'em

I pray I navigate 'em to a fortress where congregating with angels is the norm

You pray and they perform

Immaculate miracles to help you evade the storm

Of vipers, snipers, and every wicked form

Of evil that’s been tryna deceive you since you was born

With ya heavens sent melanin

Don’t let 'em convince you that ya etiquettes' a speech impediment

I’m in my element and feel benevolent even when I’m viewed as the elephant

In every residence I’m stepping in but hell I ain’t trippin'

Aye mayne, say mayne, flow nuts macadamia

I’m from the city of purple spitting vibrainium

Get it in your cranium, can’t nobody simba him

And if I ever go down it’ll be like swingin' like pendulums, ooh

What’s the goal though? Like the main goal?

Uhh… really to make purpose popular and whatever that look like.

Yeah, the accolades and stuff is gon' be cool, but I wanna be global.

I’m not tryna be no… know I’m sayin'… no disrespect to no local joker.

Like I feel like we got a message for the masses. Ya know I’m sayin'!?

We come from where most don’t break free

We had to learn why caged birds sing

But we fly even though they poisoned the sky

We don’t cry, we gon' take our piece of the pie

So I’ma need my bread hot fresh and ready

For those who tried to keep me on ice like a YETI

The west be where they pressed me to a diamond

That’s why I throw it up like the Heimlich

I’m just maneuvering on the serpents head

Swear I tread on the skull of my enemies

And I’m quadrupling anything that I touch

If it’s milk and honey dummy, I’m the honey bee buzzin'

You can see the pure pollination

Need G’s like Masons and a haven

For these beats I freak on the daily

I lose sleep putting feet to the pavement

And grindin' like a power tool or axe

Refinin' everything I do on wax

My time is near and I refuse to lack

The Shine which only a diamond can match

Bling, bling (Bling, bling)

You be surprised how many people get out they car and help you push your car if

they see you pushin' your car. Ya know I’m saying'? A lot of good people have

seen us like moving and was like, «Yo I wanna be a part of the movement.

«And so many people be like «man, how you afford all this?"Like bruh.

Most of the people I move with, they wholeheartedly believe in my vision

We come from where most don’t break free

We had to learn why caged birds sing

But we fly even though they poisoned the sky

We don’t cry, we gon' take our piece of the pie