Kings & Queens - Kemba

Lit incense and lit incentives

I’ve never paid attention this intensive

For all intents and purposes

I’ve been a perching, penny-pinching

With a pen and pencil penchant being pensive

Trying to figure out the ways of the world

How to maneuver

Through the rats and the sewers

Bullcrap and manure

Napoleon Hill complex more the mighty medulla

Manifesting many thoughts getting set in stone like Medusa

God damn

I’ve been making something structured out of nothing

Making souls out of substance

Making songs out of suffering

Suffering succotash, I done set a task of abundance

Making bundles of these ballads

You bumping for mass consumption

Basking in thrills, masking my evils and ills

Practicing people skills just to pass to my negus

That’s how a leader do

So before you go home and believe the TV

About how you should see your people

Just know who’s speaking the truth

God damn

They’re all throwing dirt on my name lately

They all threw some salt on my game

They all tried to get us to change lately

They all said we couldn’t be kings

I’m a king now

You’s a queen

He’s a king now

She’s a queen

My negus getting patted by policemen

Turn around and organize a rally at the precinct

Like Mr. Mayor, why your workers treating us indecent?

With all my tax dollars blown, it’s going off the deep end

Cats working 9 to 5 and then from 9 to 5 they creepin'

Trying to survive the trying times

With honest work and Mama grieving

All this cancer-causing meat

And negus can’t afford the treatment

Baby daughter’s womb is barren from a bad aborted fetus

My negus, my negus

Sing loyalty allegiance

Bunch of prodigies that’s mobbing deep

This havok we been wreaking

If there’s cops up in our block, use a watch word to reach us

If you get locked up on Friday, you can say goodbye to weekend

My negus, my negus

Don’t ever let them play you out filthy

The same way them so-called journalists call us thugs

In the national newspaper without being found guilty

If ya’ll bringing me down, ya’ll are going down with me

Amen

They’re all throwing dirt on my name lately

They all threw some salt on my game

They all tried to get us to change lately

They all said we couldn’t be kings

I’m a king now

You’s a queen

He’s a king now

She’s a queen

I believe we can fly

But we’re too busy running

I believe we can hide

Cause the future keeps coming

I believe we can fly

I believe we can soar

Though I call us all kings

I believe we’re much more

I believe we can fly

They’re all throwing dirt on my name lately

They all threw some salt on my game

They all tried to get us to change lately

They all said we couldn’t be kings

I’m a king now

You’s a queen

He’s a king now

She’s a queen

I could walk outside now and get sh-(gunshot)