Had
to do it for my queens
Had to do it for my queens We all got dreams
Hold your hand up,
baby,
you a queen Had to do it for my queens
Had to do it for my queens I know you all got dreams
Hold your head,
baby,
cause you a queen Who knew a knock could take a queen's life?
Never thought we'd lose a legal while she take that flight
And Camila in the house and she ain't playing nice
And black lives matter so now they thinking
twice And queens know your worth so we set
the price And life is a gamble,
go and roll the dice
And kings don't chase a woman,
baby,
chase a wife
Our people dying while you take our life
Then get up on the stand and say that it was
right We still standing now because of faith
It's cause of your badge that I ain't safe But we didn't break,
we became great
United we stand,
we showed them that we won And message to my city,
put down them guns
And message to my sisters,
protect our young Cause they destined for greatness when we
get done Had to do it for my queens
Had to do it for my queens We all got dreams
Hold your hand up,
baby,
you a queen Had to do it for my queens
Had to do it for my queens I know you all got dreams
Hold your head,
baby,
cause you a queen I see pain in your eyes,
I see some depth
in your cries We was queens before slaves,
they tried to
deny RP, Purple Rain, let them thugs fly
And they even killed Nell, made them thugs cry
And Trump got a lead so we standing by And Martin had a dream,
we the reason why
That's your brother,
he ain't gotta die Cause if we stick together we gon' touch
the sky And for my sisters,
you know I'm down to ride
Cause if I make history,
smoking vats And it ain't about the color,
it's about saving
lives Rope around her neck and now we cuttin' tacks
You can shoot me with your words You can cut me with your lies
You can kill me with your hatefulness But just like life,
I rise
Does my sexiness offend you?
Aw,
does it come as a surprise that I dance?
As if I had diamonds at the meeting of my thighs
Out of the huts of history's fame I rise
Up from a past rooted in pain I rise
A black ocean, leaping and wide
Swelling and swelling,
I bear in the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise