Came From

Do you know where we came from?

Do you know what we had to get away from?

Do you know where this pain from?

Them boats we rode wasn't vacation

Do you know why we work hard?

You see the cashier or just pay for your order?

Do you see why she grieving?

Kids hungry for meal pulling doubles just to feed em

Do you know why he tearing?

Turban on his head and you see him as a demon

Do you know why we do this?

Have you felt a mothers pain, do you taste it in her food?

You take it with you to school, it smells you kill the mood, you might as well be rude,

but you know you ain't a fool- Cause this shit bussin

Cool kids thinking you dusty

They not from third world country

on a mission to show em something they can't see

Brown and black magic the only thing that enchant me

It's a miracle that I'm here so I'm flashy

Bunch a badman Benz parked on Delancey yeah

Yeah came a long way from a Camry, yeah

More than salt and pepper in the pantry yeah

We gonna be everything that you can't be yeah

I know these foreigners understand me

Haiyaya wo wo

Ay look how far we come

Look how much we've done

Haiyaya wo wo

Ay look who we've become

We only just begun

Yeah I know where I came from

Yeah I know what I had to get away from

How we find dedication?

When genocide lasts generations

Yeah I know separation

Your father at work so long he ain't raise ya

You see him on occasion

& he couldn't show love now it's what you run away from

Yeah I know what I'm made of

Since 9 I been a translator

My parents weren't able

Don't you worry I got

You know imma keep it honest

We gonna talk about our image

The poor and the privileged

They eat pray love and don't love our village

Born with gorillas we not around vultures

They couldn't understand my culture

I been in america carry it like a holster

This for every mother who couldn't afford Foldgers

Every single brother who putting it on his shoulders

Ain't nothing in this world that could fold us

Haiyaya wo wo

Ay look how far we come

Look how much we've done

Haiyay wo wo

Ay look who we've become

We only just begun