Let's take it back to where it all starts
Before the viruses, plagues, and the walmarts
Before this hip-hop shit turned Hallmark
And every bar had to a homer out the ballpark
Yeah back to the funk vibes
When the best tracks weren't on the front side
When you couldn't fake the funk, but some tried
Same chumps hit with a tomato, and some fries
Get with the movement like Sunrise
Indigenous peoples on the frontlines
Look out for the greedy ones and their bloodline
Mofuckas tryna get tan from ya sunshine
Or we gon learn that the hard way
Like a 50 cal bullet from far (a)way
Some shit I ain't gotta mention, I let the art say
Rappers act hard bars soft as a Shar Pei

Can't hold me down, can't hold me
Can't hold me down, can't hold me
Can't hold me down, can't hold me
Can't hold me down, can't hold me

Can't be another fly to the light
Drama on sight, can turn into forever good night
Lettin it write, steady as a pelican's flight
Delicate strife, compelled by the life, rappin for Phife
Dawg you can't be serious mane
Years of the same
Filled with steady tears and complaints
Could be replaced
Equivalate ya peers to the greats
Duckin the jakes same time watchin for snakes
Whatchu gon do when ya binoculars break?
Anotha liar perpetrator, we'll percolate ya
Disturbin nature, won't be accepted
So we be comin atcha headtop like some mofuckin locusts infestin
You not me you not me you not me
And if you ain't gon ride then you ain't got me
Top 10? Top 5? Top 3?
And if I'm gone tomorrow somebody shot me

Can't hold me down, can't hold me
Can't hold me down, can't hold me
Can't hold me down, can't hold me
Can't hold me down, can't hold me

Fertilizers pollution the ways of the water
Algal blooms get dancin indigenous daughters
Gettin murdered for savin their family
Bolsonaro gets fat from raidin the pantry
If not for yourself do it for the kids
Don't do it for the wealth and computer clicks
Keep that knowledge of self, and stay true to this
If we all work together we can move a bridge
Stop a pipeline save a lifetime help each other out
Stop a spice mine let the light shine another route
Is needed for the seeds of tomorrow
Earth's here to stay but our time is borrowed

Can't hold us down, can't hold we
Can't hold us down, can't hold we
Can't hold us down, can't hold we
Can't hold us down, can't hold we