Ruler

Yeah RSH Raina Simone Yeah Uh uh uh uh uh Said I need you to feel me Can you feel me Can you Can feel me Can you Can you feel me All my people Black so stop asking me why I'm light skinned My great great grandma was probably raped bye the white man And then the white man went and left his children fatherless Gave the stereotype to the Black man just to escape his cowardice Middle school jokes about Black kids being fatherless Desensitized us to the fact that they were taken by the government 414 where my summer spent With my cousins in my grandmas basement Counting money steady thumbing it And I aint know my cousin was a dealer 'til my mama said All I know is big cuz held me down with the ice cream man All I know is big cuz feed the hood when the mamas can't Economics man Invested in Ronald Reagan's contraband Chasing that dirty money got him that Black discipline Whoopins derived from whippings learned from the whi*e man Great grandma went and got a switch up off the branch And we just wait until its' finished ni*ga we don't ever flinch Now Where you're going can't be far When you know just who you are Light the world up with your power And one day you'll be a star Hold your head up and stand tall This to all the boys and girls Look inside imagination And one day you'll rule the world My Santa clause was a Black woman My father is God And my Jesus something like Robinhood give back to the Block And my Mary just got an afro she turned into a bob With long nails they called her Jezebel but they missed the plot And all these charity commercials telling me Africa poor Like human capital wasn't removed and brought to another shore Like the Berlin Conference aint split us up and lead to the war Like y'all aint cut the nose off so we aint know we could soar My nig*a I am not Martin Luther King Jr B*ch I'm from New York might have my oota shoot ya If you let your privilege fool ya And like a cooler On my way to Timbuktu to school ya Make me look like Mansa Muse Gold what I told the jeweler Cut from a different fabric Your fabric be fabricated I'm realer than them Amiri's in every color to play with Brands on my body reminiscent of the past That's capitalism on my Black a*s Aw man Now Where you're going can't be far When you know just who you are Light the world up with your power And one day you'll be a star Hold your head up and stand tall This to all the boys and girls Look inside imagination And one day you'll rule the world