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lyrics

Collecting somewhat conscious of what's happened in the world around you to be 4 years old
These are my earliest memories
So this fear, this deep seated fear of bodily harm never leaves--in fact it marks African-American life and may be the premiere marker of the Black experience under white supremacy in this country
Perhaps everywhere

All I see is grayscale
But color commentary provides a splash
Hood pantones
Brushes with death provided laughs
Sidewalk reds ran deep over consignment or cash
Slide off sped through yellows and greens on the Ave
Trafficking light when your soul sustains weight on it
Passion of the Christ
Crucify you just to make cake on it
And then call it justice on the stand
Our feet light on our block but the courts a different dance
Few rules but held highest
Never switch on your mans
Empires turn rubble off pillow kissing and grams
Flashes of what is and what could be
Scatters across my eyes as the hooker flees
Splatters from the pies as they cook a key
Battles and cries from a toddler that's been hooked since 3
They’ll never know it but they mother do
I ain’t a poet just a brother cool
Forever a brother who
Wading in an ankle deep basement
Tested patience at the corner over EBT statements
Ask the coroner who body knowing its your little niece laying
Dodging collars and orders tryna beat the beeped bracelet
Death favors the misfortunate
And if so we live niggas
Even if our portion quick
If there a heaven and hell the hood is purgatory
6 deaths to one success repeatedly
You heard the story
Know Baphomet praying on my idle
If you knew the half of it you’d stay within ya aisle
Make it through the cracks and slips is vital
This not for show or recital
Yeah, I stood over the purple haze that was emitting from the diffuser
My skin a tattoo bearing a story like Yakuza
Fight or choose a path that mirrors your history’s subtraction
In these lawless times falling shrines give me peace like a ration

I'm seeing people that wanna live free
You know, I'm seeing people that want to live independent of that fear
I'm seeing people who have been boxed in by American policy to live within that fear
And I'm seeing people who wanna be free

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from remains of a man (r​.​o​.​a​.​m), released December 11, 2020

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