Conquer (feat. Q-052)

How come they only see the negative inside of me

Been working everyday to make a difference and gradually

I take another step but I keep tripping on my tragedies

I need to find a way to take away the pain and make it a memory

Look, I will never change but my mind elevate

Damaged by my past thoughts, that’s where I keep them lyrically

Jot them all down, trying to make a song

Write a piece of perfect poetry or form a perfect melody

To anyone hating always taking the happiness

Y’all deserve a better place instead of your predicament

The realest would never look down to anyone struggling

So budge up it and make wonderful life for the next generation

We are stronger as a nation but lose power when divided

I am seeking better knowledge for my people undecided

Where they going, where they’re headed, where their head is

While they drinking, firewater is burden

But don’t let it take the image away

Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow

I know where I'm from, where I'll go

I feel everybody's against me

I know nobody's a friendly

Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow

I know where I'm from, where I'll go

I feel everyone is against me

I know anybody will tempt me

I used to ask if they could hear me

Now I see not only can they hear and see but they ignore me

The native seen as a story, 

Legend dead in his story

Records meant to be buried, hurry they rising before me

Blended, came in the rez and suspended

My language hanging by a thread in what's said to be heaven

I'm losing my talk with every text and letter I sended

Respect intended, maybe I'm meant to be extinct, left for dead

But every rez is resurrected when it comes together

When the challenge represents itself we end it

We going against them, using our words

With these weapons to be heard

Don't get upset if you end up hurt

Our people are dead but that's expected

This double standard’s got me stranded

Cuz I'm mixed, but I’ma yell it

Niiyuu Naskapi Eeyou, never forget it

I guess the message is better be prepared for the exit

Cuz when you see you perished, culture and tribe ascended

So how do we make the transition

From all this trauma inflicted

By all these catholic missions

When their only true mission

Was to create a division between the Indian man

And the creator’s own vision

Replaced our own teachings with genocidal incisions

Locked us up in their prisons

For their freaking judge’s decision

Propagate their own lies through our own televisions

And falsify the news about all our collisions

Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow

I know where I'm from, where I'll go

I feel everybody's against me

I know nobody's a friendly

Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow

I know where I'm from, where I'll go

I feel everyone is against me

I know anybody will tempt me

I've been on the frontlines and I felt the energy 

Of a thousand warriors standing up to the enemy

I feel the power that my ancestors sent to me

With my drum in my arm and my feather in hand

I can feel the heartbeat from our mother, the land

So I synchronize the sound with every step I advance

You can feel the earth shake from the Indigenous stand

And we'll rise up and conquer like our ancestors planned