Tall Paul - Code Switching Lyrics

They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking
Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking
Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness
Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit
Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from
No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums
Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum
Code switching by necessity for better outcomes
I ain't for bluffing, I come from nothing, colorful food stamps, corner store running
Sugar for grandma and something for munching, Section eight housing, park-board for lunches
Churches for dinner, house full of sinners, hand me down clothing from shelters in bunches
I saw a shooting when I was a munchkin, it was broad daylight and out in the public
Lived in conditions conducive to thugging, it made us super bad Fogell McLovin
Doing b & e and we weren't even teens, not very long before drinking and drugging
Excuse me for not simply selling you dreams, baking no muffins this gravy and stuffing
Travel in time how I speak to a youngin, bars aging backwards like Benjamin Button
They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking
Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking
Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness
Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit
Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from
No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums
Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum
Code switching by necessity for better outcomes
I speak for the people who need it the most, showing the streets that you reap what you sow
Bougie folks think I should leave 'em and ghost, avoid me as soon as they see that I won't
Planting the seeds that can lead to your growth, writing the novels that reach to your soul
Telling the stories that need to be told like a fitted sheet Brodie I just cannot fold
Talk in vernacular flip like a spatula to proper English to show 'em I can
Imperviously while in service to thee I most courteously prove to them I'm the man
All jokes aside it's a sign of respect to those buying the lie of a high dialect
Cut me a check and I'll come to collect but the snooty behavior is where I deflect
They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking
Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking
Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness
Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit
Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from
No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums
Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum
Code switching by necessity for better outcomes
They don't see the vision when I'm in the kitchen cooking
Judge it cause it isn't what they get it's different looking
Only wanna listen when it's resonant goodness
Never wanna lift it when it's referencing hood shit
Turned my life around but can't forget where I'm from
No proletariat behind I'm lifting up slums
Intelligently moving to the beat of my drum
Code switching by necessity for better outcomes