AGAINST THE GRAIN (feat. MADELINE EDWARDS)

I feel you all are the same
 It brings my heart so much pain
 I wish I could see some change
 I'll always go against the grain
 Go against the grain
 Go against the grain
 Don't just be the same
 Go against the grain
 'Cause you were made to
 Do what no one's done
 And though they shade you
 You shine like the sun
 'Cause you were made to
 Do what no one's done
 And though they shade you
 You shine like the sun
 Aight, I feel like the masses on melatonin when it come to melanin
 I grew up melancholy 'cause I ain't
 Realize that the hemoglobin in my skin
 Was connected to a lineage that never ever had to penny pinch
 Serpent hissing at me I take the blade
 To his neck to kill all the hissy fits
 Ouu, please don't try me, I get more than grimey wen it come to Juju
 Hence why my name is Tobechukwu and the flow like a tutu
 Wrapped around the waist of Misty Copeland
 Graceful even though I hail from broken places
 Where they say that none are chosen to rise among the raptors
 Like DeRozan
 Ouu
 Flow o so, so Jurassic
 Tough to find a suitor in my bracket
 Where I'm from
 My hood was filled with bastards
 Not they fault
 They daddy had it backwards
 Hopefully they don't adopt the habits
 Of the seed that turned them to a savage
 'Cause cause
 'Cause you were made to
 Do what no one's done
 And though they shade you
 You shine like the sun
 'Cause you were made to
 Do what no one's done
 And though they shade you
 You shine like the sun
 The atmosphere where I matured
 Was less than friendly
 Before they'd chase a dime
 They'd squeeze the nickel
 For a pretty penny
 Hey look we had beef on every corner word to Wendy's
 And I wanted to get away, or fly away, word to Lenny, Kravitz
 It's always hella static
 When you can't establish
 How to get some cabbage
 Or form a habit
 To make ya cash a tidbit more acrobatic
 Ouu, Ouu
 You know flipping cake not hoarding it
 Not hoarding it tryna change my mama
 Geographical coordinates
 'Cause, 'cause she made it out the village
 She deserves the tropics
 And I was raised around them killers
 You know, round them rockets
 Where they'd put metal to yo mouth
 Just like an orthodontist
 No gas at all I went from convict
 To being a comet
 Ouu
 'Cause you were made to
 Do what no one's done
 And though they shade you
 You shine like the sun
 'Cause you were made to
 Do what no one's done
 And though they shade you
 You shine like the sun
 Sun, sun, sun
 Shine, shine, shine
 Shine on all of them, shine on all of them
 My umi said to shine your light
 So shine on all of them
 Shine, shine, shine
 Shine on all of them, shine on all of them
 My umi said to shine your light
 So shine on all of them