Broken Camel (Live) Lyrics

Young, gifted, and Black

The syndicates back

We Finna spit facts

We need to relax

Intergenerational trauma bridge tolerance

Modernist/ spawned Neoliberal apologist

Black power the motto is/ they follow us

Inside innovators like Frida Kahlo is

Against the wall somethings got to give

Movement checks pulse signs vital/

For all of us

Show up out loud like Apollo is

Circumnavigate hate to pull the God out of us

To fill hollowness/ Racial capitalist state:

I'm a hip hop ontologist

Told to give it all

Til there's nothing left

Flip the script/ step

Pour from my excess

Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain't counted us

Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this

All the capital infused/

Rhythm amount to this

Straw broke camel

Ain't about to give youth

Ain't about to give youth

Our ancestors built on like a bone

That healt wrong/ cat's broke

But feeling/ hopes revealing an open ceiling

Tangerine slice peeling

Mind's eye materialing

When I was 15

Used to count rhythmic stitchings

Feet pressed pause start lifting

shifting/ her hips swing

Hip hop fixings not fixed things

Rhythmic counterfeit

Reproduced resistance

Reinvented litmus

Water breathed viscous

White litmus I'm tired

Dealing with bullshit mission

Script flipped quick

Told to give it all

Til there's nothing left

Flip the script/ step

Pour from my excess

Indivisible/ Sum not whole

when they ain't counted us

Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this

All the capital infused/

Rhythm amount to this

Straw broke camel

Ain't about to give youth

Ain't about to give youth

Got a saturated flow

And it's made to GO

Hip hop stenographer

Jogging Arbury on the way home

Black excellence is met with this

White supremacy colluded with

Infiltrated institutionally

Too Hoover reminiscent

More than really

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

Assumptions got him bugging

Check rock discovered through

Through muddled hovering

Blue line shuddling

See schools shuttering

Double troubling

Hip hop has begun again

Navigate cultural cap

Exacted flow

Masterful

Put the city on the map and go

Exacted reactive

Shattering random/ candle lit

Interdependent system overlap

Conscious vivesect

Told to give it all

Til there's nothing left

Flip the script/ step

Pour from my excess

Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain't counted us

Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this

All the capital infused/

Rhythm amount to this

Straw broke camel

Ain't about to give youth

Ain't about to give youth