We Don't Move Like Them

They talk loud. (talk loud)
We build loud. (build loud)
Feel the ground shake. (shake)
We don't move like them. (like them)
Hands clean, heads high, put the truth on ten.

(rap)
I came from a place where the rent stayed hungry,
where the lights went dark but the dreams stayed running. (kept running)
Mama said, boy, don't trade your name,
when the road gets dirty, keep your soul the same. (soul the same)
Now I walk in rooms with the map in my chest,
no borrowed crown, no rented success.
I learned from the elders, built with the youth,
put weight on the work till it turned into proof. (into proof)

(group)
Left foot legacy, right foot plan. (right foot plan)
If we fall seven times, eight times we stand. (eight times stand)

We don't move like them, (like them)
we don't fold, we don't fake. (don't fake)
We don't chase their noise, we make the whole block shake. (block shake)
Hands clean, heads high, (heads high)
put the truth on ten. (on ten)
They can copy the shine, but we don't move like them. (like them)

No, no, no, (no, no)
we don't move like them.
Go, go, go, (go, go)
bring the whole town in. (whole town in)
Feel it shake. (shake)

(rap)
This for the aunties selling plates in the rain,
for the kid with one laptop building his name. (building his name)
For the barber with the news, for the coach with the keys,
for the girl writing code on a cracked-up PC. (cracked-up PC)
We're not a trend, not a headline flash,
we're roots through concrete turning struggle to cash. (into cash)
If they ask why the drums hit different when we play,
say the future came home and remembered our name. (our name)

(group)
Left foot legacy, right foot plan. (right foot plan)
If we fall seven times, eight times we stand. (eight times stand)

We don't move like them, (like them)
we don't fold, we don't fake. (don't fake)
We don't chase their noise, we make the whole block shake. (block shake)
Hands clean, heads high, (heads high)
put the truth on ten. (on ten)
They can copy the shine, but we don't move like them. (like them)

No, no, no, (no, no)
we don't move like them.
Go, go, go, (go, go)
bring the whole town in. (whole town in)
Feel it shake. (shake)

Say it with your chest. (your chest)
We build loud. (build loud)
Say it with your hands. (your hands)
Feel the ground shake. (shake)
We don't move like them. (like them)

We don't move like them, (like them)
we don't fold, we don't fake. (don't fake)
We don't chase their noise, we make the whole block shake. (block shake)
Hands clean, heads high, (heads high)
put the truth on ten. (on ten)
They can copy the shine, but we don't move like them. (like them)

No, no, no, (no, no)
we don't move like them.
Go, go, go, (go, go)
bring the whole town in. (whole town in)
Feel it shake. (shake)

(rap)
Ten years deep and we still ain't bitter,
taught the little ones to own, not just deliver. (not just deliver)
Bought the building back they were ready to take,
put books in the room where they boarded the gate. (boarded the gate)
We ain't gotta pull nobody down to climb,
we just keep on winning one block at a time. (one block at a time)
So when history writes what we built right here,
let 'em say we did it clean and we did it together. (did it together)

(group)
Left foot legacy, right foot plan. (right foot plan)
If we fall seven times, eight times we stand. (eight times stand)

Say it with your chest, (your chest)
say it with your hands. (your hands)
We are not guests in the house that we planned. (the house we planned)
We don't need the noise, (the noise)
we don't need the fame,
we just need each other and a reason to stay. (reason to stay)

Hands clean, (hands clean)
heads high. (heads high)
Feel the ground — (the ground)
feel it shake tonight. (shake tonight)
We don't move — (we don't move)
we don't move like them. (like them)

We don't move like them, (like them!)
we don't fold, we don't fake. (don't fake)
We don't chase their noise, we make the whole block shake. (block shake)
Hands clean, heads high, (heads high)
put the truth on ten. (on ten)
They can copy the shine, but we don't move like them. (like them)

We don't move like them, (say it loud)
we don't fold, we don't fake. (don't fake)
We don't chase their noise, we make the whole block shake. (block shake)
Hands clean, heads high, (heads high)
put the truth on ten. (on ten)
They can copy the shine, but we don't move like them. (like them)

we don't move like them. (like them)
Feel the ground shake. (shake)
We don't move like them. (like them)
Feel the ground shake.