Hail king Selassie Jah Rastafari Boom bye bye Knotty dread from the heavens sky They pray I decline Hold a medz and hold your head high They say we uncivilized Third generation degenerate Degenerate Boom bye bye Knotty dread from the heavens sky They pray I decline Hold a medz and hold your head high They say we uncivilized Third generation degenerate Degenerate Po up that forty OE as I slide Finna ride as I'm blowing my tree They don't want me make it out of the streets Ain't no job for a nucca like me Tell me how my family pose to eat For my ancestors it was illegal to read The devil been stealing our dreams Prohibition had us off of the drank Fuck your mind up till you can't even think Steal your freedom faster than you could blink Stole my people out the jungles we lived Then dropped us off in the land of ignit Bamboozled had us thinking we ignit Willie lynching all the folk from the village White supremacists is scared of my melanin They be praying I become a degenerate Fuck you talking bout you ain't no reverend Generations moving mountains like Everest Benevolent living life with a deep reverence I ain't asking masse for no severance Plethora of knowledge where my melon is Melanated skin glowing knotty dreads on my forehead Black beautiful and gorgeous you betta go head which your gold skin Good fortune you anointed bathe me off in that ointment Culture vultures exploiting my darkness need atonement Foresee it like I'm clairvoyant Clairvoyance Boom bye bye Knotty dread from the heavens sky They pray I decline Hold a medz and hold your head high They say we uncivilized Third generation degenerate Degenerate Boom bye bye Knotty dread from the heavens sky They pray I decline Hold a medz and hold your head high They say we uncivilized Third generation degenerate Degenerate Black angel black angel ascend to the sky Your oppressor playing God tryna condemn you and I I transcend I get lit for the darkest of nights Yahweh compelled me to repent And then rise we gon rise we gon fight for our lives The africans built the first ships now we feeling to turn the tide Praise the God of the sun and the moon and the sky's Canaanite been the tribe she sublime she divine A warrior blazing through your corridor determined Staff in my hand for the serpents fire fi burn so dem burning Hear my sermon just like music Eric Sermon I be serving burdens for the demons behind the curtains you vermin's I'm a descendant of the Lord of Lords If you living by the sword you gon die by that sword Nappy headed allegiance hair wool like Jesus Boom bye bye Knotty dread From the heavens sky They pray I decline Hold a medz and hold your head high They say we uncivilized Third generation degenerate Degenerate Boom bye bye Knotty dread From the heavens sky They pray I decline Hold a medz and hold your head high They say we uncivilized Third generation degenerate Degenerate