Ivory Tower

[Intro] Sitting in these hallowed halls, feeling like a fraud While algorithms trade and lecture rooms applaud Caught between two worlds, ain't that some shit Harvard yard to hardware, trying to make it fit [Verse 1] Trust fund kids talking crypto on their MacBooks While my people back home still working off old playbooks Ivory tower got me feeling like a sellout But I'm here to infiltrate, yeah, that's what it's about Classmates flipping NFTs between their classes While my cousin's hustling Wi-Fi from the masses They call it privilege, I call it ammunition Loading up knowledge like digital ammunition [Chorus] Ivory tower, power hour Looking down from way up here, everything looks sour Ivory tower, midnight hour Trying to bridge the digital divide, while they devour [Verse 2] My homie Jerome turned code into his escape While these trust fund babies treat life like a landscape They debate theory, we're living through the practice My people turn smartphones into gold, that's mathematics Professor talking 'bout disruption like it's abstract While we've been disrupted since the day we came back Yeah, I'm in these halls but I ain't drinking Kool-Aid Using education like a loaded trade [Bridge] Stuck between the streets and these elite seats Digital warfare on these ivy-covered streets They think they know the game, but we invented new rules Trading knowledge like currency, we ain't nobody's fools [Verse 3] Every lecture got me thinking 'bout my cousins How they hustle online while these kids talk discussions Yeah, I got the access, but I ain't forgot Where I came from, who I am, and what we got Academic privilege like a golden cage While my people turn their phones into minimum wage But we're hacking through their systems day by day Digital mobility's the only way [Outro] Ivory tower, yeah, I see you clear Using your own game to get my people here Knowledge is power, that's what they say But wisdom comes from streets, that's where I'ma stay