Pay Attention - Dizzy Wright, Reezy, Ill Camille

So, I hit 'em with this purpose and this passion

It’s hits in catalogs and my shit soundin' everlastin'

My flows is bottomless, that’s unlimited with every basket

These days, you can only preach religion if you on acid

Ask your pastor 'bout the shit that he be passin'

They teach false Greek philosophies in college classes

That’s the reason we rock number 7 like Colin Kaepernick

We on y’all asses, tried to burn our history to ashes

Hold on, we the chosen ones, let me talk

I made sure that I would have somethin' to say to y’all

Protest peace, take a knee for justice and they chase you off

Y’all read The New Jim Crow, we don’t even got to break the law

We’re the new activists, I got a lot to say

Screamin' Black Power and I’m proud of my Rasta ways

The Black man, with a cost, no, don’t hit him with it

Even though they did us dirty and we’re still livin' with it

I’m trying to make this thing like a nipple piercing

Breakin' down doors, like fuck what I’m interfering

Fuck any nigga that secretly work for the Willie Lynch’s

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and you

Workin' day and night for my kids, that’s why I’m casually gone

Black man, be better fathers, don’t be absent from home

I’m workin' day and night, always trying to be a better man

But the policeman don’t think that’s what I’m actually on

Locked away like a slave, they only killin' our mindsets

In an age of color-blindness, I tried to kill 'em with kindness

It worked until it didn’t

How I’m s’posed to feel when I see

All these Black and Brown convictions, lookin' like a color convention

We out here trying to fight a system that’s workin' against us

Tell me what the fuck am I supposed to do?

Every day I ask myself this question

What more do you want from me?

Lauryn Hill’s soul flowin' through my pen (yeah)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(word)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(within)

The devil is the man that tried to right the sins (talk to 'em)

Lauryn Hill’s soul flowin' through my pen (yeah)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(word)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(within)

The devil is the man that tried to right the sins

Ancestors speakin' through me, that’s why I’m brave

I got Harriet genetics, Motherland in me

Just a queen in this thing with a message to bring

The apple never falls far, so what’s the fruit without trees?

What’s the trees without roots, we all connected like limbs

If real recognize real, I got a soul like a hymn

Back to more important matters, like love and Black lives

They tried to keep us in the hole, like balls in the back nine

But see it’s power in numbers, I ain’t talkin' the minutes

The 15 don’t apply until we walk in the spirit

That’s why we’re here, the plan is really simple assignments

The Almighty behind me, got Dizzy Wright to the left of me

Man and woman alignment, we be in sync like Justin and them

We push on and go forward like gusts in the wind

The 8th wonder’s really us, let me give you the proof

If what I’m sayin' ain’t the truth, then tell me the use

Of them killin' our youth, our rights, our sons and our daughters

Our patriarchs and our mamas

That’s a question that you got to ask yourself

But always know that God’s people prevail, weather’s forever fail

Long as we can inhale, yeah it’s Heaven wherever we at

When the final hour comes, I pray your hearts are intact

Forgive them Father, when it hurts so bad

We all lost a couple ones, but stay on your path, my nigga

Lauryn Hill’s soul flowin' through my pen (yeah)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(word)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(within)

The devil is the man that tried to right the sins (talk to 'em)

Lauryn Hill’s soul flowin' through my pen (yeah)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(word)

How you gon' win, if you ain’t right within?

(within)

The devil is the man that tried to right the sins