(K. O. S.) Determination - Black Star
Brilliant, brilliant.
You must be History, you repeatin’ yourself out of the pages
You keepin yourself depletin’ your spiritual wealth
That quick cash’ll get your ass quick fast in houses of detention
Inner-city concentration camps where no one pays attention
or mentions the ascension of death, til nothing’s left
The young, gifted and Black are sprung addicted to crack
All my people where y’all at cause, y’all ain’t here
And your hero’s using your mind as a canvas to paint fear
With broad brush strokes and tales of incarceration
You get out of jail with that Knowledge of Self (determination)
Standing ovation, ‘cause you put the Hue in Human
Cause and effect, effect everything you do
and that’s why I got love in the face of hate
Hands steady so the lines in the mental illustration is straight
The thought you had don’t even contemplate
Infinite like figure eight there’s no escape
