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I'm no feminist, but we gotta give them credit
consider this something to be right at it
Recognize the motherland first and hold your fist up
Coincide with history that tried to stop who we wanted to be
Think of Rosa, Rapsody, even Nikki
the last two are modern day queens
they accomplish great things and overcame the feats
You see, Nikki didn't take no shit from Cardi B
She's a wannabe queen talking smack on live TV
Rosa sat on a bus and you ask
“That's all she did for us?"
She made a way so america wouldn't be as messed up and corrupt as it already is
i could write a list about these legends and go one for days
rewrite all these history books to make sure they got their praise
Before any of the females we know today, we had Katherine, Dorothy and Mary
Scientifical abilities as well as mathematical
I take their absences in these pages a bit too "grammatical"
Where are they now?
The books didn't mention them, so they wait till 2016 before we finally bow
We have Missy, Lauren Hill and Jill Scott
That's not even the rest of our talented lot
We're talking tough women who fought with their bars
Women who flew the white men to Mars
One who made impacted integration in a time of segregation
They're so powerful, they shake this whole nation
They rise up; it's a lioness we're facing
We have the women like Beyoncé and Alicia
I can even throw in the one named Queen Latifa
They break down society's stereotypical walls
Harriet walked through the cornrows like the oil in my scalp
She planted power that ran into the ground and ended slavery like a drought
Who else can amount to that greatness?
No one today did the stuff that we're creating
Her story gives me elation to rebirth this generation
Everyone knows her for the underground railroad, but Minty never took shit
Some view us as 'ghetto' and nothings
Best believe us "nothings" will grow to be somethings
Further from a hoe
we'll be queens that history will know