Joey Bada$$ - FOR MY PEOPLE lyrics
Joey Badass [Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott] Brooklyn, NY, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Joey Bada$$ - FOR MY PEOPLE lyrics]
You know, yeah
Always wanted to have super powers
You know, uh
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be
Our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?
Uh, now all heroes don't wear capes
And all villains don’t get away
But all limit's eventually fade
I don't wanna be good, nigga
I'm tryna be great
It’s hard when your back's against the wall
And if you got it all to keep
Your feet up on the floor
So I thank the Lord when I
Wake up in the morn'
'Cause to inform the world the
Very reason I was born
You can see the power when the
Mic is in my palm
When I storm across the room
Hit the stage and perform
Word is bond, don't be alarmed
Don't let me have to sound the horn
And drop a bomb
Wanna get my mom a crib, with a lawn
Somethin' that my future kids, can run up on
So I always do my best to carry on
Life is like game of chess, don't be a pawn
My nigga
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be
Our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?
Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane
No, it's the young black god
Livin’ out his dreams
What you mean? I been up
On an ultralight beam
They don't wanna see you fly
They just gonna shoot your wings
Everything ain't what it seem
Wishin' all these dirty cops
Would come clean
Still swervin’ on these city blocks
For one thing my man just copped a 30
Shot, protect the team, know what I mean?
Music is a form of expression
I'ma use mine just to teach you a lesson
Rule one: this microphone's a weapon
I'm shootin' out the actions
Manifested and my passion
Never restin', I'm surpassin' the expectancy
Of life in my direction
Man the section 8 depressin'
Hard to be progressin' through
Recession and oppression
Not to mention that they had us
Cell blocked ever since an adolescent
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be
Our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?
Oh, yeah oh, mm
Oh, yeah
Always wanted to have super powers
You know, uh
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be
Our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?
Uh, now all heroes don't wear capes
And all villains don’t get away
But all limit's eventually fade
I don't wanna be good, nigga
I'm tryna be great
It’s hard when your back's against the wall
And if you got it all to keep
Your feet up on the floor
So I thank the Lord when I
Wake up in the morn'
'Cause to inform the world the
Very reason I was born
You can see the power when the
Mic is in my palm
When I storm across the room
Hit the stage and perform
Word is bond, don't be alarmed
Don't let me have to sound the horn
And drop a bomb
Wanna get my mom a crib, with a lawn
Somethin' that my future kids, can run up on
So I always do my best to carry on
Life is like game of chess, don't be a pawn
My nigga
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be
Our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?
Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane
No, it's the young black god
Livin’ out his dreams
What you mean? I been up
On an ultralight beam
They don't wanna see you fly
They just gonna shoot your wings
Everything ain't what it seem
Wishin' all these dirty cops
Would come clean
Still swervin’ on these city blocks
For one thing my man just copped a 30
Shot, protect the team, know what I mean?
Music is a form of expression
I'ma use mine just to teach you a lesson
Rule one: this microphone's a weapon
I'm shootin' out the actions
Manifested and my passion
Never restin', I'm surpassin' the expectancy
Of life in my direction
Man the section 8 depressin'
Hard to be progressin' through
Recession and oppression
Not to mention that they had us
Cell blocked ever since an adolescent
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be
Our hero, of my people, yeah?
This for my people
Tryna stay alive and just stay peaceful
So hard to survive a world so lethal
Who will take a stand and be our hero?
Oh, yeah oh, mm
Oh, yeah