Def Sound - DEDICATION Lyrics

This is for the forgotten
This is for the remembered
The children looking for freedom
That found themselves in the music
And freed themselves in a lyric to find themselves in the mirror
This is for all the homies missing all of they homies
Who say it out in open and holding em whole heartdly
Speaking it from the artery
Speaking in front of audience
Did it with no facade in this
Did it with no applaud in this
Did it with all my heart in this
Did it when they was shook
Who did it when no one looked
Who did it for all of us
Who did it when dreams was crushed
When Giving wasn't a given
Especially with our women they need to know they enough
This is for the single mothers with multiples hustles
This is for the depressed kids that cry in puddles
This is for the hopeful
This is for the uncles
This is for the homies knowing they gifted and humble
This is for the poets
This is really for me
From river to the sea, know you will get free
The first in they fam tree
Bringing home degree
The joy of a full fridge off of that EBT
The meek and the loud
The then and the now
Survived and the drowned
The nights on the couch
(the) duets with doubt
(For) James Baldwin's smile
The Black women that Black men won't write about
I'm doing it for is for the brujas
Doing it for the dula's
Abulitas hand making and serving all they Papuas
Never spitting basura
Want the smoke like a hooka
Really about they cultures brewing they own kombuchas
For every one of the barbers fading sculpt you up
All the really strong friends really holding you up
All of your dearest dreamers lived and never woke up
The aunties pulling up for you always there in the clutch
This for my mother who really taught me to read
This for the shaman who really taught me to breath
My brother living his truth and went after his dreams
Dedicated to Brandon call me back my g
This is for the Black folks
This is for the fat folks
This is for the real hood
This for the Virgos
This is for the Leos
This is for my people
Getting it out the mud
Doing more than they should
Doing it cuz you have to
Living Misunderstood
All the things that we laugh through
(Even if you reject me) see you as one of us
This is for the pandemic babies
And the therapists
Gangbangers
Looking for exits and some advocates
The challenges you couldn't calculate on a abacus that cultivate and activate the balances and calluses
The lovers
The wanderers
The wonderful
The Trans folks
The elders
The living
The witness
This for the preachers who need to dig deep and ask for forgiveness
This is for the folks that's locked up and in prison

The unafraid to be wrong really ready to listen
The Unafraid and just strong living loud on mission
The underpaid and keep on
Till all the fear dissolved
I'm really bearing my soul
Really isn't just song

It's Embedded in the heritage Some Narratives inherited
No one ever dies but are you pre pared for it ?
Where you heart?
Are you aware of it ?
What is success if you ain't sharing it?
We do it the quiet kids with stories to tell
The big sisters who bear witness and hardly are held
The weight lifters the shape shifters
Who ain't with us
Word workers that paint pictures
That stay with us"