Crown

[00:02.39] Hey, hey you there - where's your crown?
[00:09.45] You didn't leave the house without your crown did you?
[00:12.19] Just as sure as the earth is round we bounce back up when they throw us down
[00:15.97] So don't forget your crown
[00:18.28] And hold your head high, like you caught a glimpse of God through the clouds and you stuck in awe
[00:23.38] Don't worry we got y'all
[00:25.40] Mind and body, body and mind, tell 'em homies
[00:27.73] The world is bigger than your street and mine and that colour and this
[00:30.97] And every shade of our skin is rich
[00:34.57] Knowing your future depends on our involvement
[00:37.47] So, block boys, block boys, it's in our hands more than Parliament
[00:43.41] The gun can kill or the gun can save, rather congratulate a stage than carry him to a grave
[00:48.44] That's responsibility, my brother's keeper, my sister's big sister
[00:51.92] Life full of lemons we just gotta add a little sugar to, to those sweet dreams
[00:55.77] You can be anything, go further than me, be better than him, climb higher than her
[01:00.31] And never ever let em knock your crown, that's my word
[01:03.95] All hands on deck
[01:08.48] Making queens and kings of all cards we delt
[01:10.73] Jamla, Roc Nation
[01:13.49] Let's go
[01:30.95] I lied to momma one time when I was eleven
[01:33.36] Riding in the car she told me "Summer won't forget it
[01:36.21] Truth 'gon chase the light no matter what night that you said it"
[01:39.18] It make me feel so low she peeled my feelings back like lettuce
[01:42.07] With no salad told me save all of the carriage for the ballads
[01:44.19] Now I'm dropping jewels as if we gave up on the marriage
[01:47.51] I know it's hard to handle we ain't came here in no carriage
[01:50.20] The hood is for the rain and where they throw us is the barracks
[01:53.22] Where we learn to master beats without a panther or a ferret
[01:55.99] It came out in the '80s same as me I was a baby
[01:58.86] And what I learned 'bout life is: Lord is sure is not the fairest
[02:01.72] If your skin ain't as fair as all the Beckys, Tiffanys, and Sarahs
[02:04.53] Black don't crack, Obama ain't flinch
[02:07.35] I sat inside that White House having conversations
[02:09.50] How boys turn to men if we show 'em more than the rims
[02:13.01] If they jumping high for the rims, ain't a goal that we cannot win
[02:15.64] I'm setting peaks for you and them I hope you roll off
[02:18.40] Million black graduates, woo! Just go and show off
[02:21.44] Reaching out to everyone from the top to block y'all
[02:24.22] Eliminate pitchers we grew up with, what's the curve ball?
[02:26.87] I made something out of nothing, better out of worse
[02:29.51] Take care of your own I know I gotta do that first
[02:32.13] I know there's power in my time I know there's power in a verse
[02:34.93] Tell a kid good job and tell him go hard on the work
[02:37.83] You know the world you grew up in is very small compared to Earth
[02:40.12] It's the worst they lied and told you your limits on the future
[02:43.45] Y'all can brush it off though, came back around and groom ya
[02:46.48] Me, Alicia, Talib, Busta, everyone and you ya, agh!
[02:49.30] In life there ain't no rules, rule
[02:53.48] Whatever you dream you can do, do
[02:54.88] They tell me I'm a king!
[02:58.45] They tell me I'm a queen!
[03:00.54] In life there ain't no rules, rule
[03:03.39] Whatever you dream you can do, do
[03:06.44] They tell me I'm a king!
[03:10.11] They tell me I'm a queen!
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