We Are The Culture

(album: Terraform: The People - 2021)

Whole city, indeed
We are the culture
Whole city, indeed
Man how you finna hate whatever God got planned?
How I'm 'posed to chase what I already am?
We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture

What up cuz? You got 'em loving you fumbling throwing dubs in Dublin
What up blood? You got 'em flying in just to say they been to Bompton
What up homes? You originated teardrops on our faces
What up uce? Now even the cartoons got tribal tattoos
We ain't worried about y'all, whatever y'all got in stores
Make the thing hot, whatever we say goes
One time for the vatos [?]
One time for the homegrown, the West coast
Them your dances in Cortezes and T-stances
Pendleton stickies, white tees with starch creases
Yeah that's you jaina with the winged eyeliner
You should tell the fashion blog "my tia did it before you"

Man we all just a kid from somewhere
A part of town, a hood or street or avenue, oh yeah
You muscle up your hustle, taking every advances
Now the whole world doing your dances

We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture
Man how you finna hate whatever God got planned?
How I'm 'posed to chase what I already am?
We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture

What up pops? We finna pull up, that vinyl collection hot
What up moms? You raising the kids the definition of strong
Damelo, dimelo, pasale Modelo, I'm finna school you in dominoes
Y'all can't call it, y'all drip is Farrah Fawcett
I'll flip, I'd like to see them try to stop it
We ain't worried about y'all, whatever y'all got in stores
We make the thing hot, whatever we say goes
One time for the waymakers, the truthsayers
One time for the pennypinchers, the old Lakers
One time for the single mamas and no drama
One time for that working girl, work it girl
One time for the day laborers with fake papers
For the daddys whose kids got the same daddy

Man we all just a kid from somewhere
A part of town, a street or hood or avenue, oh yeah
You muscle up your hustle, taking every advances
Now the whole world doing your dances
We are the culture

One time for the immigrants, working stiffs
The coal miner, the school teacher, the Uber driver
School dropped out but never stop learning
Firefighter you know Cali stay burning
One time for the one time that show respecto
They pull up then dap up then veterano
One time for the living word in Adobo
One time for the killipino Efechto
One time

We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture
Man how you finna hate whatever God got planned?
How I'm 'posed to chase what I already am?
We are the culture, whole city
We are the culture