Ancestral City

Chorus: Female Vocal

My family don’t trust me

My friends talk about my fall

But I walk through this city with my head standing tall

They can say what they want, they ain’t seen what I saw

I’m the king on my block, I survived through it all

Verse 2: Rap

Got out that bus, my duffel full of old dreams

Pockets empty, only hope in my jeans

Cold on my back, but the hunger, it burns mean

Heard the city break boys, I’m sharper than the screams

I carry ancestors—songs in my heart’s drum

Each step heavy, but I never come undone

Every siren sings stories in the dark

But I rise from that pain—find light in the scars

Pre-Chorus

Through the hate, through the rain, through the lies in the night

I remember the faces that told me to fight

I got chapters to write, bigger thrones in my mind

Ain’t nobody gonna take what’s already mine

Chorus: Female Vocal

My family don’t trust me

My friends talk about my fall

But I walk through this city with my head standing tall

They can say what they want, they ain’t seen what I saw

I’m the king on my block, I survived through it all

Post-Chorus

King on my block, king on my block, yeah

King on my block, king on my block, yeah