Just trying to exercise our birthright
Cuz we’re all children of the Earth, right?
we cross invisible borders across the open ocean waters
Motivated to make it for the sake of our sons and our daughters
Just trying to exercise our birthright
Cuz we’re all children of the Earth, right?
some hike the desert sands to foreign lands no plans but survival
to end up in the handcuffs under a rifle at their time of arrival, it’s cold
She kissed her mother clutching the locket she’d bought her
To hold the picture of her father that had lived forever on they altar
Never heard another word from him in two years but it seemed much longer Since that day he sailed away it took all the courage that he could conjure
Now she’s on her way to the U.S.A.
they say it’s a monster
didn’t wanna, but decided to leave her kids to live with her mama
she said goodbye the look in their eyes the sound of their cries for years would haunt her
She would survive the battle but with post traumatic stress disorder
She crossed invisible borders across the open oceans waters
Motivated to make it for the sake of her son and her daughter
To give em the best she on a quest like midnight marauders
Face the slaughter still with a smile for her child just like a martyr
Can’t think of nothing harder than leaving everything you part of
99,000 problems, who the fuck is Sean Carter?
no it’s not a diss, it’s mathematics and politics
the rich ain’t ever had to survive five days on water and cassava chips dehydration, hallucinations and on top of it
the sun’s burning her skin and lips. Will she survive the trip?
makeshift rafts are jam packed with as many as can fit
So many people have at this the sharks have learned to follow the ships
Now imagine that, scorching in the days, frozen at late night
hungry, thirsty, worried plus being followed by great whites
finally touched down on ground around the sixth daylight
border patrol just snatched em up quicker than rattlesnake bites
tied their wrists searched them through-em-in-a-van and locked the gate tight the doors were slammed they began moving forward and bouncing left and right arrived at prison, detention centers they call em
razor wire, guards and cells, the smell, they’ve got so much in common
stripped of her clothes, dishonored, took everything she had on her
including the locket that held the picture of her long lost father
why bother to scream and holla, when trapped by anacondas
the system’s behemoth, it’s eating people like Jeffrey Dahmer
she was processed and numbered, shown to her cell and bed anxious and worried a flurry of thoughts is filling her head
should she have never fled or just brought her children instead
but she can’t turn back so she starts planning how to move ahead she was on the yard the next day, the sky was charcoal and grey when someone caught her eye in the men’s prison yard not far away and when he saw her too they couldn’t hold back their tears
now she had the answer to where her father’d been for all these years
Just trying to exercise his birthright
Cuz we’re all children of the Earth, right?
we cross invisible borders across the open ocean waters Motivated to make it for the sake of our sons and daughters for the sake of our sons and our daughters
Cuz we’re all children of the Earth, right?
UK label Def Pressé taps legendary New York hip-hop producer Blockhead for the fifth installment of their KPM Crate Diggers series. Bandcamp New & Notable May 5, 2024
