Art & Culture

If you look around the room Ima tell you what you gonna see Everyone that I ever let Write a verse for me You'll see every fan I have Every girl that I ever dated Every masterpiece created And the ones I haven't made yet Ain't it amazing All these pictures that I painted Do I even need these words to illustrate it Feel free to debate it I ain't concerned with Anything you're saying Trolling in the comments Ain't gonna make you famous Ignoramus I knew this game Before I grew to be a fetus Who are you to me Another endangered species Rappers dropping feces Got the nerve to call it Art up in their speeches But looking around Like you, I don't see it So hard to believe these entertainers Forget what life before fame was And no one pays respects to educators But really can you blame them It's a shame How the game done changed up But only 360 I know Is the one you pressed play on Let's talk about our culture How vultures go pic' it apart They add a twist, make it different a bit Consider it art Claimed they invented it No credit for - what has been ours That tradition existed since Columbus passed the Meridian Pride Blac'er than obsidian I don't know half of my lineage As an infant ancestors Snac'ed on the mammories of Nefertiti Who's to tell me it isn't true If I'm writing the history You can never tell my story Because you'll retell it differently You won't tell it as vividly Might not be as interesting I can't expect you to get it If you didn't have to live like me Culture shapes identity Colonizers wanna strip away Edit in their texts And market our garments In their store display As costumes for celebrations With no invites to the occasion Which would make it appropriation Instead of appreciation I see the nation only celebrates The better parts The only thing we have left Is the only thing that was ever ours The Struggle