Crown

Hey, hey you there - where's your crown?

You didn't leave the house without your crown did you?

Just as sure as the earth is round

We bounce back up when they throw us down

So don't forget your crown

And hold your head high

Like you caught a glimpse of God through the clouds

And you stuck in awe

Don't worry we got y'all

Mind and body, body and mind, tell 'em homies

The world is bigger than your street and mine

And that colour and this

And every shade of our skin is rich

Knowing your future depends on our involvement

So, block boys, block boys

It's in our hands more than Parliament

The gun can kill or the gun can save

Rather congratulate a stage than carry him to a grave

That's responsibility

My brother's keeper

My sister's big sister

Life full of lemons we just gotta add a little sugar to

To those sweet dreams

You can be anything

Go farther than me, be better than him, climb higher than her

And never ever let em knock your crown, that's my word

All hands on deck

Making kings and queens of all cards we dealt

Jamla, Roc Nation

Let's go

I lied to mama one time when I was eleven

Riding in the car she told me something I won't forget it

Truth gon' chase the light no matter what night that you said it

It make me feel so low

She peeled my feelings back like lettuce

With no salad told me save all of the carriage for the ballads

Now I'm dropping jewels as if we gave up on the marriage

I know it's hard to handle we ain't came here in no carriage

The hood is for the rain

And where they throw us is the barracks

Where we learn to master beats without a panther or a ferret

It came out in the '80s same as me I was a baby

And what I learned 'bout life is: Lord is sure is not the fairest

If your skin ain't as fair as all the Beckys, Tiffanys, and Sarahs

Black don't crack, Obama ain't flinch

I sat inside that White House having conversations

How boys turn to men if we show 'em more than the rims

If they jumping high for the rims

Ain't a goal that we cannot win

I'm setting picks for you and them I hope you roll off

Million black graduates, woo! Just go and show off

Reaching out to everyone from the top to block y'all

Lemonade pitchers we grew up with, what's a curve ball?

Made something out of nothing

Better out of worse

Take care of your own

I know I gotta do that first

I know there's power in my time

I know there's power in a verse

Tell a kid good job and tell him go hard on the work

You know the world you grew up in is very small compared to Earth

It's the worst they lied and told you your limits on the future

Y'all can brush it off though, came back around and groom ya

Me, Alicia, Talib, Busta, everyone and you ya, agh!

In life there ain't no rules, rule

Whatever you dream you can do, do

They tell me I'm a king!

They tell me I'm a queen!

In life there ain't no rules, rule

Whatever you dream you can do, do

They tell me I'm a king!

They tell me I'm a queen!