2DNS - THRIVING WHILE BLACK - PT 1 Lyrics

[Intro]

Remiss not to resist, we persist to exist.

Lemon pepper
All flats
Extra sauce on that
Lemon pepper
All flats
Extra sauce on that
Yuh

[Chorus 1]

Lemon pepper all flat
Gimme that
Extra sauce on that
Put the oven in the flow, heat the dough, bake potato
Make a snack and make a couple stacks
Thriving while black
.. oo
Thriving while black
Thriving while black
.. oo

[Verse 1]

[ ---- End of Reverse Flow ---- ]

When the wind's whistle whittles the brittle window
Like a little fiddle
Any airy para diddle acts as a little reminder of what little fiscal dwindles
To resolve or replenish said windy riddle
When windy window bullet-riddled
But it's really no surrender
So we rest less

Really rendered restless
To free the next rest of us
Progress despite hundreds of hindered years of next steps
A couple kiddo
With
A semi-widow

With the stomachs billowing (stomach the pain)
Eating blissful chicken biscuit dinner-ing
See the smiles altogether mirroring
In the middle of an "arm-reaching-warm" missing calm
But
"We still pressing on" kind of wintering

[Chorus 2]

Lemon pepper all flat
Gimme that
Extra sauce on that
Put the oven in the flow, heat the dough, bake potato
Make a snack and make a couple stacks
Thriving while black
.. oo
Thriving while black
Thriving while black
.. oo

[Verse 2]

Spot the faux too
Stop the foes like
Oppressive ones on the toes like
Lawful and awful, social splinters, friendly fires from firearms

(.. mhm)
So
A nimble thimble knitting different kind of gifted gimbals
Hittin' hindrance to defend and
To win
Fight against harms
So we say the quiet part out loud
(hey, hey, hey)

For the crowd, from the ground to the cloud
(for the crowd, from the crown to the clown)

(now)

Like we don't hold back
Like gimme stat, nah f*ck that, put it back, until the stats stack
Reach the back of the chat
Pin it like quick facts for some quick reacts
So
We use voting polls to block attacks

Flow too hot to hold
(ahem)
Unbound by ge-o me-try to scold the bold who told us to fold
(ahem)
(ahem)

[Chorus 3]

(ahem)

Now we on a roll like

(ahem)

Extra honor roll like
Cinnamon roll like

(ahem)

On the map collecting tolls
Despite being told not to pass go

(ahem)
(ahem)
(ahem)
(ahem)
(ahem)
(ahem)

[Verse 3 ("intro to SV")]

Cut the check though
Need to flow like I need to knead the dough

We tryna fix like 7 flat tires on the struggle bus
But
Too many pot-holes in political plots blocking polls
Like new molds from the same ol' Jim Crow
P.O.S.'s want us stuck in puddles
So we flow to call forth like huddle
Seeing shit miles away like Hubble
From the marble-like bubble stuck in trouble

Trying, prying, spying
To kill us
Lying, plying violence to steal U.S.A. on supervillain shit
We already got enough shit to deal with

Now it's any mini-mighty foe
Pick a liar who's got to go
Grab a shovel from the flow
Clear the rubble from the snow

So we sew some growth to tote more actionable hope
Tryna stack racks off the tracks to make more mental snax
Tryna bring dollar and sense back to the whole pack
Wisdom like
Friendly fire can't keep us warm
A snake eating its own back can't feed the worm or the room

Fools formally warned
Don't mistake charm or dislike of harm as waivers of ancestral arms
Hands reverse hurt or revert like once upon

Yawn

Damn this nigga talking too long
Where the rest of the song?! It's gone 'cuz
("intro to SV") Supervillain on
Orange-crime-boss, and red-states want us down and gone

Rich bigots, broke bigots
Them niggas with the gimmicks
So
We fly when they told us to drown
(can't hold us down)

Beat the odds, now we run laps with the cap and gown
Across streets and schools all around
Aptitude at altitude
Attitude is too profound

Hm.

[ ---- Start of Reverse Flow ---- ]