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Ruler Lyrics by Raina Simone

Old Soul New Conscience

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[intro]
Yeah
Artist Station [?]
Raina Simone
Yeah

I said I need you to feel me
Can you feel me
Can you- (yeah)
Can you feel me
Can you-
Can you feel-

[Verse 1]
All my people black, so stop asking me why I'm light-skinned
My great-great-grandmama was probably raped by the white man
And then the white man went and left his children fatherless
Give a stereotype to the black man just to escape his cowardice
And middle school jokes about black kids being fatherless
Desensitizes us to the fact they wеre taken by the govеrnment

8414 where my summer spent
With my cousins in my grandma's basement, countin' money steady thumbin' it
And I ain't know my cousin was a dealer 'til my mama said
All I know is big cuz help me down with the ice cream man
All I know is big cuz feed the hood when the mamas can't
Economics, man, invested in Ronald Reagan's contraband

Chasin' that dirty money, got that black discipline
Whoopin's derived from whippin's learned from the white man
Great grandma went and got a switch up off the branch
And we just wait until it's finished nigga, we ain't never finish

[Hook]
Where you're going, can't get far
When you know just who you are
Light the world up with your power
'n one day you'll be a star

Hold your head up and stand tall
This to all the boys and girls
Look inside, imagination
And one day you'll rule the world

[Verse 2]
And my Santa Claus was a black woman, my father is God
And my Jesus something like Robin Hood, give back to the block
And my Mary just got a afro, she turned into a bob
With long nails, they called her Jezebel, but they missed the plot
And all these charity commercials telling me Africa broke
Like human capital was removed and brought to another show?
Like the Berlin Conference ain't split us up and lead to the world?
Like y'all ain't cut the nose off so we ain't know we could soar my nigga
I am not Martin Luther King Jr
Bitch I'm from New York
Might have my [?] shootcha
If you let your privilege fool ya
And like a cooler on my way to Timbuktu to screw ya
Make me look like Mansa Musa, gold what I told the jewler

Cut from a different fabric, your fabric be fabricated
I'm realer than a [?] and every color to play with
Brands on my body reminiscing of the past
That's capitalism on my black ass (aw)

[Hook]
Where you're going, can't get far
When you know just who you are
Light the world up with your power
'n one day you'll be a star

Hold your head up and stand tall
This to all the boys and girls
Look inside, imagination
And one day you'll rule the world

[Outro]
Grandma, you didn't play, though
No I gave-
You gave serious spankings, you didn't care how old we were
Yeah...
I told you what she spanked me with, right?
[laughter] I sure did!
With switches...
I had to go pull branches off the tree (tree, tree)
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Raina Simone

Raina Simone

About “Ruler” by Raina Simone

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"Ruler" appears on "Old Soul New Conscience".

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