Here we are A new decade In the 21st Century Move over 2020 is all about clarity The air is limited But I got enough to breathe No monoxide poisoning While all the big fishy's are slowly dying Rinse repeat Let the ocean breathe Like you and me Overseas Under the stars Comes night again But we pray that the daylight saves us When we wake To the singing in the trees Birds flying At heights never seen All the blue and green The whites dying Above and below me I wonder what the kids see Their planetary destruction Started way before This air they breathe Vaping like there's no 3rd degree burning Learning young Our flaws of past centuries Thoughts and prayers Sentiments we don't need Heed the call Gather round kids Don't be undermined By the slavery Around the world There are things you don't see Maybe you'd never believe But taking chances When you take a glance At how we aren't any more advanced Then the rest of them Might break the chains That keep us binded Blinded In empathy Over you vs me It's all of us Trust me We all need to take a breath Give a breath Give a damn Just breathe Sea to sea See what they don't want you to see A part of them is a part of you It's a part of me That made living So much harder To believe People forced into killing one another due to the state of beliefs Passed down Through generations Of old school memories Be a leader in the new school Keep some oxygen For the rest of them Drop the guns The mini-bombs We don't need them As protection from our own violence Recreated Like we were born to hate Shorten the lives and other peoples fates When we won't even have a planet To pass down No more human extinction By the hands of our ancestors We were born to breathe Til our last breath Let it not be taken by power and greed Put your money where your mouth is Hey kids How you gonna live beyond what the hatred did Fires burning Choking up with smoke No more hydrogen For the future gens Less we give a little Take a little And spread what humanity we have left In our beliefs That the world could still be A better place For those born in form That want to birth Another form Of human decency Please It's up to us To place the trust that we go hand in hand In the lands That unite us Rather than separate and divide us. We all come from somewhere We weren't born alone We came from our mothers Also born of this earth Time to give back The first breath Like it's been our only one To give a damn Keep on breathing Keep the breath moving Pass it on Oxygen We need it

Low riding like i cruising on my brothers bmx Got my own blue angel when i was only six Double seater banana rider Blue wheels back pedal breaks hold up I don't know how to stop without the handbreaks crashing into crews gathered round the complex Life's like picking up your bike again Only you stand taller ride faster no more tricks on my tricycle banged up my chin double time standing on the shoulders of my sis came down hard on the record player hard box For my disney discs built in players remember when they came like this? Djs got their turntables single players like fisher price had mad records Multi disc colour makers for the movers and the shakers Times were easy then Your only job was to be a kid Play around all the time even adults can't handle this They gotta nine to five Just to thrive I don't have many papers But then again I don't worry about paying off shit I couldn't afford in the first place second place I'm okay with this I can handle this Without the pressures Under pressure Cold as Ice Sipping T gives me the adrenaline Like the coffee My mama let me taste When I was just a kid Got hooked by the coffee mate Now I'm shook no more sugar But I get to do it all over again My way Riding in my mind It's a pleasure of mine Remember this Take your time to do your own shit Just keep your mind high Like a child the first time you see anything worth a damn Remember it sticks like stone Those are the memories Like my papa told me don't be down Remember when I told you Bombs I gave the trigger to the kids When I was only six It blew up the neighbourhood How long did I have to hold onto this? Just keep it light Like we did Before all the strife Relax Take your time Be a kid again If you never got a chance Try to do it In a new way That's the new wave No grenades Just lemonade Take your chill pill Fats Domino Up on blueberry hill MMM Dessert Tastes like victory In my mind I got the senses From everything I've experienced in my life And y'all will get your chance To retire Into the good life But it won't be As good as mine Cause this is my Life.

Who's the teacha? The mad preacher? KRS crossed over Imma take the stakes And take over- NAS A foundation Mad stable Like Jesus born To these three Kings The wisemen Frankensence and Mur We just need to make some sense Outta this world Kids listen to your teachers They might have good things to say And they barely even getting paid Laid off cause the system never works At placing precedence over presidents Trying to devise the bullshit they started That's why you gotta brain To use against the abused I said make sense Not nonsense Less you can be nonsensical Sensational about the world Fly right by Over the heads Of the bullshitters Who don't give a damn About Her or him or him or her Word? Gotta learn the words To use them Gotta train your brain Not to lose it I've gone mad too many times This my world I don't bestow this upon anyone But teach yourself To rise above If there's no one else around To help you do these things Learn from your own beginnings You can always begin again Just don't repeat What defeats you We gotta rise above In this together Til the very end Teachas mad preachers When they got substance Not all of them Trust this That's why you gotta Keep your eyes On the prize That this about you Not the rest of them Stop the naysayers That say War is the only game Outta the gate Before giving peace a chance Or giving enhancement a chance The rapper Ain't about vendettas It's just about spitting venom In the faces of mad disgracements Displacement In a society That doesn't preach what it speaks They talk just to talk They still crawling Can't walk the walk They'd rather die Than try Piecing together the peace OF fragmented justice When it's not their place To say Religious war fare goes this way Not believing it could go away If we just gave praise Praise To the Allahs of one place One love One hope Other peoples lives ain't a joke Imma getting choked out I gotta let go I just gotta Cause I've been taught To speak my thoughts After midnight I make melodies With someone elses beats But this is how I speak Just to let it go All the un-just-ice UnJust Trust this

See my true colours Shining through True colours Girls just wanna bump for fun But not that white shit But the humptydump Do the humptydump 2pac either way Biggie players like to play Like they street fighting Like Chun Li but Honda Got the biggest hump to slam that trunk NES Ni\s wanna play the game Crushing hadukens all day But me gots some dhalsim stretching out in that voodoo way Floating we all floating No one gloating Just goating It's the game Control moves Cheating by pressing all the buttons In any manner any way Just to get some bison Like goons from neptune I never made it to the sunset But I witnessed my brother Win every game Staying up late Watching Zelda and Mario Beat the game The system players Know how super it feels To defeat the anime Versions upon versions Updating everyday Never played it safe At the arcade Mortal kombat ain't the way To defeat immortal enimays Olympic games That the shit On a desktop system PC version Keeping it clean Respect your cleaners They take that shit you spoiled Right off the boiler Always got room For more play Girls just like to do it that way Call them vicious or vindictive I just trying to dominate my own game I'm a single player On a multi player system But we're all having fun Cause girls - guys- just wanna have fun But don't be dumb Found out he sold out To the k-pop systemic race Just to stay a player Awkwafina- now that girl's got some heavy shit to say My way or the highway Crazy rich Mellow yellow Can't believe it ain't butter For mass invasion Asian invasion Coming your way It already on the up and up So listen up We ain't our parents But trust this They gave us foundation Even air guitar players know how to win the game System failure And we done. Better update every system

Remember those days my friend My friend the end People are strange When they don't know themselves like we do Self- reflection is a part of being human and you It's in everybody's minds where do we fit in this equation of pi Ever eternal to space Collapsing over time Rhyme after rhyme Like a lullaby Singing sweet tunes til the day I die Don't assume of mine These problems of the world The whole universe They might not be my problems But the problems are still mine If we all rode in tandem There'd be mayhem Communists are not about socialism The Island never tried like Huxley who futurized Comparable Aldous to Adolf When will the people rise They're in succession with the times Opposing sides MAke sure your on the best of them That protects the rest of them Remember the days When no one ever felt this way At least not monumentously in past centuries It's been awhile THE Liberty of the people Who fight to stay alive No more liberty to dose who devise Division kills tribes Let us all untie My country, may not be your country But we all country Inside Nelson Mandela had it And so did Willy They do the jive They do done did it right Let's speak for the people Because we believe in every child That they get a chance to thrive Without bias to bullshit practices Of death and dying traditions Unite One Love Inside Makes two loves Fit like a glove If you love enough of the people We's all unite. Save the world Before it dies. Before it kills us softly Eats up our minds What do they say Eat Pray Love I've never tried Trotting around the circumference Like I'm some sophisticated educated lady I am pretty comfortable Where I ride Wherever the tides take me I'm comfortable inside That's what I want for the world. A sense of comfort To be in your own skin Without having to try We already worldwide So spread the message To all those trying tribes We love and respect all of them

Masquerade paper faces on parade Masquerade The phantoms come at night To seduce my brain Sing sweet songs of how we been made Cultures clashing Before they been taken over To be paraded as the next thang To copy, cut, delete... repeat Never knowing the origins of where they came Only to Capitalize commercialize tradition From another planet Same space Different race Religions of trade That's how you get made Don't mistake This masquerade We all just paper faces on parade We got V for vendettas Only shade the truth Of trying to escape From the games of the Masquerade Game over We've all been on display As objections To the holders gaze Subjects to be tested Never bested That's what I'll trade Places for Just to play In the game of Life To Monopolize My masquerade For a real face A lil aged But aged to perfection Over time Can't deny We all in this To give a future history of today Lest we forget All the Gravediggas of our Bones Thugs and Harmony Hello kitty melody Memories Masquerade over Face to face Extradite the fake. We just paper faces On display In this masquerade Sing, Sing, Sing for me In this masquerade Paper planes paper faces on display Masquerade It's the web that we weave For upheaval Of the souls of the gravediggas For the soul deep down In real place and time of the space We just paper faces on display Masquerade

Hey hold up Take a pause There's no cause To ring the alarm Raise your arms If you feel Sometimes You just need to take a pause Take a breath Freshen up I was born a horse Built to work But I gotta stay the course To be happy When there too much going on yappy Yappi this Ey yo papi Settle down In a stable Frame manger Stay in the hanger Dem flights be bangers These days Burning up like the rest On the ground Waiting to be saved Waiting to be found This calls Collateral damage Ain't something We should have to manage Twits tweeting To de-escalate A war they started Maybe they got afraid They should ALL be ashamed By their behaviour Never got a whooping from their fore-fathers Thinking they all the godsons From which bridges Are born We all come in different shapes and forms Never hurry Never scurry your mind When it comes time To reality For you to relax your mind If you find peace within You'll see peace Right outside Your door Welcome mat on the floor That you can sleep upon Come on in When other humans Wanna kick you right out We all begin How everyone else began That's why we share Origin Original moments, these original immigrants On the same planet In the burn together Taking over in the wind Time to wind down Let the right ones in And then we shall begin again And let reality settle in. This ain't the end Let it begin again and again Take a pause

Born in Canada, Grew up on the States Didn't know the provinces til I was about eight Memorized the states on the maps I be looking at Doing those crazy grocery store IQ Tests Entertainment was real vs quality of the vid Canadian made had its own aesthetic taste Americana was the age we grew up on on the telly TV was basic no cable needed VHS was a luxury we were given as a gift Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make mixed muchmusic tapes I knew the map of america was important for a reason Just now do I realize how much it caused division Civil injustices creeping in the northern border Gun violence and murder Racism is international but no longer just systemic It's fueling each other blind of colour And religion I wish it were like back in the days When kids could be kids Riding around without the injustices to face Truthsayers would speak But people thought before reacting There was an intelligence Older kids today be lacking Lock'em up That's all we be hearing Lock it down Knock em out Before your moms heart gets broken Sticks and stones were the only toys we needed Now we play with the riddim Bringing back rhymes we learnt as children To give rhyme to reason To the games today be playing Educate that you are not living In a virtual reality Systemic division is a physical virtuosity PBS SCTV at second city Own your place Before it gets taken By tready fingers Who licking you over with the bullshit Presses. It's digital mf's digital impressions Go tell your friends It's time to live the vision The future is here in the present Take your gifts And teach them your life lessons Your stories will carry further Than any of mine Cause I'm outta time But I stepping in line With what the kids have to say Cause one day... the world will be yours. The world is yours. We gonna sit behind you and listen Listen up Your thoughts and ideas will transform other generations Whether they come after or before you We all here right behind you If you about living for the rest of them This ain't a test This ain't your school bell alarming We are and will forever be brothers and sisters in arms. In this race For equality Of the People We just be people We are People Let's be better people