Validation

Now I got estrogen and melanin
But I won't be ya medicine
Make ya money off of me
I think you wanna check again
Started at the bottom
Now we climbing up the pyramid
Oh you didn't get the memo
Baby get this message then

Been at the bottom too long
When we weak we gotta be strong
We right they paintin' us wrong
When we tied
We gotta keep on
And on and on
A break is all that we want
But hate is all that they flaunt
No love from our Uncle Tom
And every-time we stand up to society
They tell us that its in our heads
They steady on gas lighting me
Only wanna tolerate me
When I show the white in me
Try they best to keep me covered
Tryna dim them light in me
But I still got a fight in me
You won't ever shut me up
No you will never silence me
I'mma get this message out
As long as there is life in me
I'mma tell my sistas too
No I won't let 'em die on me
(Haters)
But they wanna box us in
They don't wanna see us win
Too bad it ain't up to them
And we standing up to them
And we about to cut up
Pass it to my sista so that
She could tell you wassup

We got everything that we want
And we got everything that we need
We don't need your validation
Let me fix this crown on me
We don't really care what they want
No more living up to their needs
Don't need your validation
We queens

If it's up to you
Then we wouldn't move
You would keep us down
You would let us lose
You would run the world
You would take the girls
Wait wait wait
This already true
Take take take
You already do
We won't fake
Just to sit with you
Won't celebrate
At ya festivals
We was still slaves
When you made em new
Fourth of July
Bombs bursting high
We was in the fields
Wishin' we would die
Star spangled banner waved in the air
While my great greats gaspin' for air
They was getting raped under master's care
We was hangin' drapes when they pulled the chairs
But y'all don't care
They tell us to forgive
And to get over it
But racism is still alive
Its deadly just like covid is
Its taken many of our lives
Its crazy y'all don't notice it
Or maybe you don't wanna see
But baby we gone show you this

No more cappin' off our skin
No more beatin' on our kids
We ain't here to be ya friends

Undoing all that's colonized
Its hard to pray
When Jesus still is white
When I close my eyes

We got everything that we want
And we got everything that we need
We don't need your validation
Let me fix this crown
We don't really care what they want
No more living up to their needs
We don't need your validation
We queens

We don't need
(Wuh)
We don't need ya
(Wuh)
We dont need ya vali
Vali
We don't need ya valida
Vali
We don't need
(Wuh)
We don't need ya
(Wuh)
We dont need ya vali
Vali
We don't need ya valida
Vali