You Can't Hold Me Down - Mogli the Iceburg

Black kids called me a cracker, white kids called me a beaner

Ate lunch in school alone cause I didn’t fit in with either

They told me that I can’t rap

«Did you forget your ethnicity?»

But lookin' back from now they couldn’t see what God

Had planned for me

Let me get it, let me put it down

One time for, anybody out there followin' their dreams

Anybody in the city workin' two jobs

So they can get to bigger, better things

You can’t see the hours that I put in

Every day and night go to every track I write

Go to every beat I made just to hit 'em with the fade

When I stick it to the people that had told me that I couldn’t, yeah

After all of the years that young Mogli wore a frown

I finally learned that it’s okay that I’m not white or brown

And though the people lookin' sideways drive me crazy

You can’t take my pride from me

I’m cool with the way God made me

By the way you react I can tell that your hatred intact

You call me dirty, uneducated, illegal

In fact, went to talk to Black Lives Matter and I said, «Latinos do too»

And they told me, «Check your white privilege, boy

This is not about you»

We gonna make it, ooh we gonna make it

I kept my soul no matter how hard that they tried to take it

Ooh we gonna make it, ooh we gonna make it

Got Adonai by my side

Ain’t no way that you can fade it, listen

You can’t hold me down

You can’t hold me down

You can’t hold me down

You can’t hold me down

Got grandpa that was German, got grandpa that’s a Mexican

But don’t you say that 'round him, get corrected, we American

Family multi-colored from the darker to the fairer skin

And though we share the same blood

Blows my mind they still think less of him

We infected with the self-hate

Scar tissues from the wounds that are cut deep

So when other people sin we just retaliate

Man, it’s our own hearts that are too weak

See Confederate flags on the back plates

Feel like the tenth one I’ve seen this week

Man, that’s the type of thing that make me go crazy, huh

How can this be America?

I still get misidentified, some think that I speak Arabic

Heard it all before, from towel-head down to a terrorist

The butt of all your jokes, I got my hand up on a bomb trigger

But sometimes it gets brutal

«Boy you just a stupid sand n*****»

Your ignorance astounds me so much that I can’t even get mad

But then I think about my cousins who don’t have the same privilege I have

Like if things are this bad for me

How much worse is it then for them?

With no white side for them to lean on

Gotta give it up to Jesus in the end

We gonna make it, ooh we gonna make it

I kept my soul no matter how hard that they tried to take it

Ooh we gonna make it, ooh we gonna make it

Got Adonai by my side

Ain’t no way that you can fade it, listen

You can’t hold me down

You can’t hold me down

You can’t hold me down

You can’t hold me down