Free Skin (feat. Kimmortal & Sol Diana)

I found a poem in my skin I'm a person of colours, synesthetic melanin Storytelling riddling Somewhere in the middle of flexing, reflection, a bit of love What we're becoming and the kid in us I found purpose in crisis I fight curses with cursive, from worthless to priceless Got pennies for the billions Music is the medicine Tomorrow isn't given, so forgive and be giving to fellow citizens Each one, teach one Freedom, freedom I might not be young but I'll never be done All things circle, season, season Imagine if ancestors could see us And how far we've come, and how far we've come Even if we leave, don't mean that we're free We're finding roots in our family trees Systems try to bury me but they don't know I'm a seed Grow Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me The breath-rhythm of my people Clad in purple, storm-like, beautiful in my belly The distance encoded in our DNA Was supposed to fragment us Like the islands that we hail from Yet here we are Lion-hearted Lyric hurlin' Melody swervin' Balisong twirlin' Barbed-wire pentongue Beckon us to be We are a template for smashing templates In the temples of our youth Are blueprints to smashing the emperor's temples I wear my poetry on my sleeve Like the translucence of our barongs So come take a seat, beside me, kapatid Come and read the poetry in our skin Exhale the breath-wind of our kin Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me If tomorrow isn't now, it's always soon to be That's why I'm always thinking that it's you and me We could learn unity And make more opportunities for our community Some gratitude for getting through to me We could think local and act beautifully And collaborate not only musically Hip hop's the best medium for revolution, see Whether it's systemic confusion or mental delusions Use the beats and allusions to beat the illusions We didn't pay all these dues Or all these dudes Or make all these tunes for free We still found food to eat And made food to feed The crew that knew that we Could do it big with the truth we speak I wanna start a school for the youth and save you a seat Space where safety ain't a statement, to play in it Poems in my skin, it illuminates And I ain't sorry for the shade or the shade of it So stay a bit Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me Poems in my skin They all will teach me how to love me You give me light You give me soul We could have freedom You help me grow You give me light You give me soul We could have freedom You help me grow