Black to The Future
They say if you live in the past, you won't have real estate in the present
I'm far removed from royalty but a direct descendant
To know your history is total reinvention
So time travel with me in the 4th dimension
Where African czars wore animal headdresses
And believed in signs from the universe as God's messages
The monuments and relics are the last vestiges
We're the masons of civilization and impressionists
Some survived the Middle Passage, violent currents and grand rapids
And capturers who were savage
Blood sprayed across the atlas
The rebels took they're muskets and wet they're heads, original Boom Baptists
Black patriots fighting against fascists
Aiming to raise they're profile and status
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We're troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
We had to bite the bullet
Punishment or emancipation both ways we felt the backlash
Treated like jackass, lower than second class
Then you saw the rise of demagogues, alhamdulillah
The coat of arms is the panther, black fist and ankh
Fighting manifest destiny by that honky tonk
The Hooch came before the Sauvignon Blanc
We did Lindy Hop and Bebop with a matted conk
Driven by the arts, politics, scholarship
And consciousness in works by novelists
Discrimination fueled the fire for protests and riots
The FBI conspired with cops and hitmen for hire
Systemic racism slash know your place-ism
Hides them from laws, mastering escape-ism
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
The movement was destroyed by COINTELPRO
They wounded, diluted and muted the soul
Like Christ we rolled the stone away from the hole
The spirit never dies but we suffered in droves
At home we suffered blows from a baton
Across the pond it was bombs in Vietnam
Trauma was the storm, heron was the calm
Walking Dead came when crack came, then came Babylon
We went from FUBU to FUBAR
Steroids was the old juice bar, without the rhubarb
Every drug left scars, put us behind bars
And the sentences were higher than our counterparts
I'm in high gear with this before-and-after
The flux was dated, I upgraded to the flex capacitor
The pursuant Rap Intel Unit
Got targets on our backs, eager to get us maxed
Dollar signs made for the machine behind the ratchetness
They compromised the culture instead of justice there's passiveness
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
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Black to The Future
They say if you live in the past, you won't have real estate in the present
I'm far removed from royalty but a direct descendant
To know your history is total reinvention
So time travel with me in the 4th dimension
Where African czars wore animal headdresses
And believed in signs from the universe as God's messages
The monuments and relics are the last vestiges
We're the masons of civilization and impressionists
Some survived the Middle Passage, violent currents and grand rapids
And capturers who were savage
Blood sprayed across the atlas
The rebels took they're muskets and wet they're heads, original Boom Baptists
Black patriots fighting against fascists
Aiming to raise they're profile and status
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We're troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
We had to bite the bullet
Punishment or emancipation both ways we felt the backlash
Treated like jackass, lower than second class
Then you saw the rise of demagogues, alhamdulillah
The coat of arms is the panther, black fist and ankh
Fighting manifest destiny by that honky tonk
The Hooch came before the Sauvignon Blanc
We did Lindy Hop and Bebop with a matted conk
Driven by the arts, politics, scholarship
And consciousness in works by novelists
Discrimination fueled the fire for protests and riots
The FBI conspired with cops and hitmen for hire
Systemic racism slash know your place-ism
Hides them from laws, mastering escape-ism
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
The movement was destroyed by COINTELPRO
They wounded, diluted and muted the soul
Like Christ we rolled the stone away from the hole
The spirit never dies but we suffered in droves
At home we suffered blows from a baton
Across the pond it was bombs in Vietnam
Trauma was the storm, heron was the calm
Walking Dead came when crack came, then came Babylon
We went from FUBU to FUBAR
Steroids was the old juice bar, without the rhubarb
Every drug left scars, put us behind bars
And the sentences were higher than our counterparts
I'm in high gear with this before-and-after
The flux was dated, I upgraded to the flex capacitor
The pursuant Rap Intel Unit
Got targets on our backs, eager to get us maxed
Dollar signs made for the machine behind the ratchetness
They compromised the culture instead of justice there's passiveness
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
They say if you live in the past, you won't have real estate in the present
I'm far removed from royalty but a direct descendant
To know your history is total reinvention
So time travel with me in the 4th dimension
Where African czars wore animal headdresses
And believed in signs from the universe as God's messages
The monuments and relics are the last vestiges
We're the masons of civilization and impressionists
Some survived the Middle Passage, violent currents and grand rapids
And capturers who were savage
Blood sprayed across the atlas
The rebels took they're muskets and wet they're heads, original Boom Baptists
Black patriots fighting against fascists
Aiming to raise they're profile and status
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We're troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
We had to bite the bullet
Punishment or emancipation both ways we felt the backlash
Treated like jackass, lower than second class
Then you saw the rise of demagogues, alhamdulillah
The coat of arms is the panther, black fist and ankh
Fighting manifest destiny by that honky tonk
The Hooch came before the Sauvignon Blanc
We did Lindy Hop and Bebop with a matted conk
Driven by the arts, politics, scholarship
And consciousness in works by novelists
Discrimination fueled the fire for protests and riots
The FBI conspired with cops and hitmen for hire
Systemic racism slash know your place-ism
Hides them from laws, mastering escape-ism
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
The movement was destroyed by COINTELPRO
They wounded, diluted and muted the soul
Like Christ we rolled the stone away from the hole
The spirit never dies but we suffered in droves
At home we suffered blows from a baton
Across the pond it was bombs in Vietnam
Trauma was the storm, heron was the calm
Walking Dead came when crack came, then came Babylon
We went from FUBU to FUBAR
Steroids was the old juice bar, without the rhubarb
Every drug left scars, put us behind bars
And the sentences were higher than our counterparts
I'm in high gear with this before-and-after
The flux was dated, I upgraded to the flex capacitor
The pursuant Rap Intel Unit
Got targets on our backs, eager to get us maxed
Dollar signs made for the machine behind the ratchetness
They compromised the culture instead of justice there's passiveness
We never asked for this, but you'll hear the cycle in my passages
It's a grind to reverse the damages
On that time continuum
I cropped a timeline over a millennium
We troopers with critical moments to maneuver
This ain't McFly's journey, this is Black to The Future
Writer: Miles Buckner
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