Themes: mental health; manic activists; being as much at war internally as at war with social injustices and external forces; lack of boundary between self protection and selflessness; lack of balance; extreme transparency; Black people learning to accept that we occupy an inherently insane social position, yet insisting on life all the same; the occasional, sometimes seductive joy and quirky high of feeling total devotion to something
lyrics
I can’t do enough for my people
No
Uh uh
Sometimes I do too much
Uh
Can’t do enough for my people
No
Uh uh
They say I do too too too
I can’t do enough for my people
Uh
Uh
But I but I
Yeah
Can’t do enough for my people uh
I
Have you have you have you
Have you ever brought the dragon out the pit? (HEEEYYYYY!)
It’s kinda hard when im grinning
When my back always bending
When im on the wheel spinning (roota!!)
And everybody is offended
But i coulda woulda been a
Broke a nail or a trick
And im the trick ain’t it
I’m looking in the mirror at a lick ain’t it
Gave my dead sister kids 10 bricks ain’t it
Seen her online breathing new nails painted
Whew whew
But that’s the risk ain’t it?
When the cape sold with a whole gas station
Make it feel good flying high kin chasing
Cut from the cloth, good foot kentaying
Whew
Slave story just like a hood story
Sumn bout the struggle just do sumn for me (yeah)
I’m a save a bunch
Then wind up broke
Standing in the line right by the punch bowl
Say it
I can’t do enough for my people
No
No
Sometimes I do too much
Uh
Can’t do enough for my people
No
Uh uh
They say I do too too too
I can’t do enough for my people
Uh
Uh
But I but I
Yeah
Can’t do enough for my people uh
II
Have you have you have you
Have you ever smoked the mob out the pit?
They there the whole time
waiting
for the wrong move online offline
Ain’t no sense tip toeing down a picket line
Keep it simple, pick a poison, pick a team, pick a side
they see errors but they ain’t 1-2 stepping
Step team cool tool tool stepping
Right up in your face Who are you repping?
Whole lot pledging for the blue checking
Whew uh
I know you read about it (read about it)
The movement ain’t the same trip for everybody (tell em bout it)
I was bred up out it
Saw my momma down bad
Couldn’t help but look back
Whew whew
Where is everybody?
We was we shall overcoming till the scary part
And it was Ashe this
Shea butter that
But sumn bout the game keep calling me back
I can’t do enough for my people
No
Uh uh
Sometimes I do too much
Uh
Can’t do enough for my people
No
Uh uh
They say I do too too too
I can’t do enough for my people
Uh
Uh
But I but I
Yeah
Can’t do enough for my people uh
III
Have you have you have you
Have you ever made the devil have a fit (shhhhh)
Now where the psyche ward
Where the solitary unit
Where the ICE ward
Third ward through the 9th ward
Life feel better when we fight for it
Whew uh
Now where my girls at? (Girls at)
Every missing Black girl in the world at? (world at)
Yeah uh huh
Bring them girls back
Give them girls everything that the world
Has
Whew
Who was that aimed at?
The words sound good but who really claim that
Is it enough for me to ask you to sing that?
Then keep it moving on to a new track?
Whew uh
Now let’s circle back
Let me ask one more time where them girls at?
What?
Uh
Don’t nobody know nothing?
End of discussion
I ain’t doing nothing
I can’t do enough for my people
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Production
Felt Five Thompson
Shake the Field
Bao Pham
Mastering and Mixing Engineer
Bao Pham, Mixology Studios Online
Recording Engineer
Tyler Atkisson, Robert Shimp, Technical Earth Recorders, Montgomery, AL
Felt Five Thompson, Technical Earth Recorders, Felt House, and The Beacon, Montgomery, AL
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