Modern Boi - Abhi The Nomad, SOL

Now this time we have is all ours

Tired of waiting, make a move

You live inside your modern math

I’ll be on the moon, the moon

(What did you think?)

I betcha feel good now

Yeah, yeah (Feel good now)

I betcha feel good now (What did you think?)

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, betcha you feel good

Betcha you feel—

Betcha you feel good now (Oh, oh)

Uh, yeah

Remember when I used to take a rickshaw to the school, shit (Shit)

Way back 'fore the service had my daddy pack and move it (Move it)

I didn’t speak a lick, train my tongue wit' the cartoon shit (Yeah)

'Til a youngin fire breathin' back when he was toothless

They would body shame my pigment (Yo)

Like I had a choice to choose it (What?)

Too foreign for the white kids, too vanilla for the desis (You know it)

Not included, like double A’s for Casios I grooved with as a baby

Last year I toured the nation off of a music

Shit is crazy

I’ve traveled far and wide

To find my place and lay my head

They say we’re all confused

I guess I am, I must confess

And if the world will end

Why not go and take my chance?

(Take it)

Modern man (Okay)

Do your dance

Yo

Mama came across the water

Like fuck a border (Fuck)

Like fuck the future Donald wanted (Fuck)

You can’t deport the culture (Nah)

My grandma voted and got shot at by soldiers (Shit)

To me, she the Haitian Rosa

So in part I owe her

Wish I was older so I could’ve met her (Yeah)

But instead I write this letter like it’s not a record (Nah)

But it is and it’s prolly a hit

Shit, Abhi goin' to call me like, «Sol, they gon' party to this shit»

Just some brown kids, down since 'round 2006 (Yeah)

When Luda had us eatin' that Chicken-n-Beer

Ain’t shit different, they switching no gears (Uh-uh)

The ignorant still questioning which pigment he in

I’m a modern boy, more than you’ll ever know (Know)

23andMe couldn’t crack the code (Code)

Yeah my DNA came from all across the globe

In more ways than one, but there’s only one Sol

I’ve traveled far and wide

To find my place and lay my head

They say we’re all confused

I guess I am, I must confess

And if the world will end

Why not go and take my chance?

Modern man

Yeah

Now do your dance

(Yeah yeah)

Yeah!

(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)

Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Yeah, yeah)

Yeah