They swoop over Detroit’s dry bones
Like vultures
Its true torture
But you call it a rebirth.
Michigan’s one of the worst…
You need to listen to truth first!
Won’t be polite
if ya used to Seeing white!!!

Michigan Great Lakes
We need rekki and truth.
Otherwise won’t be nothing
left for the youth

Great Lakes Michigan
We need truth and rekki
If we do what we did
What we doin be deadly

My nickname for this place
is apartheid state
Not only coz blacks and whites
Live apart by race.
But there’s an internal design
Of the infernal kind

And your consumer maneuvers
is a tumor on mines

Prison guards to profit takers
Unreal real estators
Construction contracts
To destroy our shopping acres
And the media makers
Say that we blamed or dang’rous

When its business deals
then they call Midtown
But its Cass Corridor
when shits goin’ down
My granny barely in the ground
You want to rename the hood
Blame the hood,
frame then change the hood
I get it… seeing whites…
reclaim the hood
We need reconciliation
Excavation mediation
Coz these so called innovations
Want to Make Detroit Great Again

Michigan Great Lakes
We need rekki and truth.
Otherwise won’t be nothing
left for the youth

Great Lakes Michigan
We need truth and rekki
If we do what we did
What we doin be deadly

(Was ad-jacent to hell
For 400 years
Got on the boat with our Spirit
Got off with Bible and fears
Don’t try to compare
We was on the books as the assets
They lucky we asking
And not kicking they asses)
Every n***** filled with rage
See that we get paid

Too many mommas have been raped
Too many unmarked graves

Peep the USA and whatever’s
going on around me
Brain kinda cloudy
History they denying me.
The stories they be telling
don’t make no sense
When the Pilgrums came over
They ain’t make no cents
Much less dollars!
Till they found some Africans
to make hollar
Make commodities
Bank on us
And take it out of me

Filled with blood and genetic trauma
(I’m a need 2 trillion dollars
And a few states of southern
Proper-ty)
To properly address our healing
HR 40 in the house!!!!
Let’s start our wheeling and dealing

The USA was founded off of
making a killing
Ask the veterans of the trail of tears
And Native civilians

And if you white
This ain’t the time to stay in yo feelings
You betta pay us our shillings
we’ll uncage our guerillas

Hail Mary

Come with me
Reparations
Move Quick, See
It’s for the nation
Right now!
Say we bout to ride or die
Nah nah nah nah nah nah

Come with me
Reparations
This We’ll See
It’s for the nation
Right now!
Say we bout to ride or die
Nah nah nah nah nah nah

We some northern soldiers they made us yell
To my southern cousins– lets take it there
On the coasts provoke and protect your peeps
Occupy our homes– lets play for keeps!
–Lets roll the dice, this game is deep

Take abandoned lots make em garden plots
Then guard them plots cause the block is hot
Un bar the locks then watch for cops
When we get together we’re hard to stop!

Chorus 2x
Grab the keys in your hand unlock that
Get a crowbar and just rock that
Lets meet at the bank and just crowd that
Show elites that we know
where the powers at (Right Here!)

We got the momma poppas attorneys rockers
Kids in the fosters, vets, and doctors
Black flags, activists, gramps, and nomads
Grannies, big ole families, oh man

Take the house back baby take the house back (x4)

Every body need a place to kick back
When you get yours then it’s time to give back

Say we can’t wait man, get your abatement
Everybody eating – come grab your plate, man
My granny and my uncle and my aunt
used to share a crib
Where you live? It’s no embarrassment
There you is

Where you live? It’s no embarrassment
There you is
She got a house when she wrote that check
And he got his house went to court and shit
And they kept their home when the folks protest
And my man got his spot for a buck and a lease

When the banks foreclosure game ain’t over
I swang thru the office they marched like soldiers

Say

Whats wrong baby girl, bring your doll back
Grab your gym shoes your bike bring it all back
No trouble baby brotha grab your ball bat
Get your comic books come on grab all that

Chorus
Take the house back baby
Take the house back
Take the house back baby
Take the house back
We don’t got go get nobody’s mousetrap
We got what we need in our community!

Grab the keys in your hand unlock that
Get a crowbar and just rock that
Lets meet at the bank and just crowd that
Show elites that we know
where the powers at

(Right Here!)