Warriors

For women warriors Underheard stories of rocking in the face of misogyny In spaces with faces that probably objectify your body Before really seeing you or hearing you Ciphers everyday with all these dudes glaring Aggressively and their not caring All for the people, but stages their not sharing In all fairness, you can't say it ain't true To rep in hip-hop, women got more walls to break through And in in my walks I've met more then a few Who rip microphones with wisdom, the soul and the truth And many of these sisters that I highly look up to They can't get to doors that I easily walk through The sexism is just too inherent, all day in and day out And some think it's way out To hear a brother speak about these issues on a song Well they're wrong for thinking that at all Because what hurts a woman is really hurting us all Women warriors Underheard stories of mothers, sisters, daughters Who rip mics, and spit to survive Keeping hip-hop alive You hold the force to change the whole world when you rhyme Women warriors Underheard stories of mothers, sisters, daughters Who rip mics, and spit to survive Keeping hip-hop alive Some still really only see you on the outside I'm not saying get a girl to tokenize in your crew Or do one show in your life where you invite women through I mean this might be a start for you, but don't end it there If you got love for your momma you could at least try to care There's so many raps classified as conscious out there A label people get no matter what they share It's incense and headwraps they wear No different than the pimps and the players Just another trend I don't want to ever fit in with them I just want it all to end The greed, homophobia and sexism And an end to the fear of just questioning Ourselves when our words don't match with our actions I want to change what it means to be masculine And see hip-hop grow to raise strong women Little girls can rip mics with the best of 'em Don't believe what they told you Remember this Women warriors Underheard stories of mothers, sisters, daughters Who rip mics, and spit to survive Keeping hip-hop alive You hold the force to change the whole world when you rhyme Women warriors Underheard stories of mothers, sisters, daughters Who rip mics, and spit to survive Keeping hip-hop alive Some still really only see you on the outside Now I hope in all days in all ways The way that I'm living is enough to give thanks For inspiration and raising me up To all women warriors I send my love Whattup to Ndidi Cascade, Kia Kadiri and Kylea Sista HailStorm, Spyc-E and Walidah The queen of LA's underground Medusa, Feline Science And big ups to B-Girl Mia I won't forget Mystic, she did inspire this Child to show love in song, so fearless Peace to SKIM, Invincible, Het Heru and Tiye Phoenix Figures of Speech and Belladonna, thank you for being DJ's Kuttin Kandi, Deena B and Ariel To Siren's Echo a.k.a. Syndel and Toni Hill Cihuatl Tonali, Anomolies and the Earthstonez An underground nation you should but you don't know Of women warriors Underheard stories of mothers, sisters, daughters Who rip mics, and spit to survive Keeping hip-hop alive You hold the force to change the whole world when you rhyme Women warriors Underheard stories of mothers, sisters, daughters Who rip mics, and spit to survive Keeping hip-hop alive Some still really only see you on the outside