Here, 2016

Drums make the folks go dumb
 And make the folks go dumb
 Horns make the people turn up
 Yeah it make the people turn up
 Turn up, turn up
 We make the people turn up
 Church keys make the church folks sing
 Church folks sing, church folks sing
 Love over hate, love over hate
 I'm here for that
 Real over fake, real over fake
 I'm here for that
 Truth and faith, truth and faith
 I'm here for that
 Beauty and grace, beauty and grace
 I'm here for that
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love
 For the love (can the church say amen?)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love (amen)
 For the love (amen)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love
 For the love (can the church say amen?)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love (amen)
 For the love (amen)
 Don't be afraid this is the future
 I know you ain't met, I'll introduce ya
 They might be cool but we are cooler
 We got class so let us school ya
 Fresh to death, like a million bucks
 I might just go a year in bow ties and chucks
 I might just go to church in an all white tux
 Yeah, ya boy fly so you know what's up
 Can the church say amen?
 I'm here for that
 When the system don't love us, justice for the brothers
 Yeah, yeah I'm here for that
 You can tell all the haters with no hesitation I'll take the reparation
 I'm here for that
 And tell all the rappers with the pimpin' pimpin' murder sell drugs in their music
 I ain't feelin' that
 Woo, I just do it for the love, I do it for the love (I do it)
 I do it for the nerds and the thugs, those overcoming drugs
 I'm here for that
 Give the children a little purpose
 Tell the politicians they serve us
 Make them nervous, I know they heard us
 Tell 'em we came here for the turn up
 Love over hate, love over hate
 I'm here for that
 Real over fake, real over fake
 I'm here for that
 Truth and faith, truth and faith
 I'm here for that
 Beauty and grace, beauty and grace
 I'm here for that
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love
 For the love (can the church say amen?)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love (amen)
 For the love (amen)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love
 For the love (can the church say amen?)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love (amen)
 For the love (amen)
 Look, I'm here for the young'uns with they pants saggin'
 And homies is flaggin, some say 'What up cuz?' or 'What's bracking?"
 Nothin' lacking on the corner, bread stacking
 Pray to God that nobody have to toe tag 'em
 He ain't be trapping in a minute
 Use the re-up money for the tithes and the rent
 Told his baby momma that he love her any minute
 Pastor dipped him in that water after he repented
 Granny told him he don't need a souvenir in church
 Straight up out the street, think he made the deacons nervous
 We just tryna learn a word and keep from getting murdered
 We be on that Kirk and Kendrick Sunday after service
 You can call it worship, Tamir Rice done got us nervous
 Innocent and killed like Christ is how they hurt us
 But I'm here for that
 Probably ain't gonna get a lot of cheers for that
 I just do it for the love, I do it for the love (I do it)
 I do it for the broke and the poor, those all feel ignored
 I'm here for that
 Tell 'em we woke and we alert now
 I promise there's healing for your hurt now
 Yeah, tell 'em we came to put in work now
 Yeah, can I get a amen from the church now?
 Love over hate, love over hate
 I'm here for that
 Real over fake, real over fake
 I'm here for that
 Truth and faith, truth and faith
 I'm here for that
 Beauty and grace, beauty and grace
 I'm here for that
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love
 For the love (can the church say amen?)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love (amen)
 For the love (amen)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love
 For the love (can the church say amen?)
 If you're here for the love, if you're here for the love (amen)
 For the love (amen)
 For my sisters who be fighting for that justice, uh, I'm here for that
 Real fathers, loving on they wives and kids, yeah, I'm here for that
 My wife is classy but a little ratchet, yeah I'm here for that
 West coast feeling but I still live in the A homeboy, I'm here for that
 When I walk on the courthouse judge feel the case out, definitely here for that
 Y'know when that unexpected check comes in the mail, cuz, I'm here for that
 Always here for that
 Uh, always I'm here for that
 Gotta love it, gotta love it, gotta love it, gotta love it, gotta love it
 I'm here for that
 It means to be broadened, y'know, beyond the understanding that black women are strong
 Body and souls and so we're not only strong, we are, we are helpers, we are lovers, we are fighters, y'know, we, we love strong
 But we are also human, y'know that mean's we are vulnerable
 Y'know we are, we hurt, y'know we ache, like everybody else
 We need somebody, to, to be strong for us when we are taking the bumps, the bruises we're here on the frontlines, fighting so many battles that many people are not privy to and so I think that
 So y'know we are sisters, we are aunts, y'know we are deaconesses, we are leaders in our churches, y'know, we are speakers, we are writers, y'know we are corporate, y'know, CEO board executives
 We are advocates, we need our brothers to stand up and defend black womanhood
 Don't silence us, y'know, be happy that we are here to enable you, to empower you
 But we also need that empowerment to go both ways