We the best kept secret in the west pacific
Wrecking mics without rights just to get specific
White man stole the land but he won't admit it
Centuries of history come check my limit
We was raised around death we don't notice the stench
Got us fighting for your flag so we can hold us some cents
First people, first team, got us riding the bench
500 years a colony the shit is intense
We braved the open ocean with our dreams in the stars
Now we killing off each other in the streets and in bars
The government don't care they funding research on mars
If we do this to each other what we gonna do to yours
They desecrate the water and our sacred sites
They subjugate our daughters gotta make it right
They confiscate my freedom gonna take the fight
I don't hesitate to advocate for native rights
Nobody knows what it's like for us, except us
Don't assimilate much cuz they don't accept us
Brought Jesus and diseases and in God we trust
Selling liberty and justice but it's really just us
Nobody knows what it's like for us, except us
Don't assimilate much cuz they don't accept us
Brought Jesus and diseases and in God we trust
Selling liberty and justice but it's really just us
We lead the pack with the facts in the worst statistics
They make stacks off our backs so my rap's explicit
I got gratitude and attitude but something's gotta give
Why are we good enough to die but not good enough to live
They be dangling the money got you dancing like a monkey
You can't afford to live go ask your neighborhood junkie
Maybe they just tricked us into giving up our home
But a people or a culture ain't a thing that you can own
I know just how they played us with their government and laws
Make it legal to discriminate- the territory clause
I'm an educated native, you can't fuck with my intelligence
We bigger than you thought, you better double check your measurements
Volcanic, gotdammit go and get my belt
The island look like paradise and feel like hell
We are not American we just can't tell
Cuz they made us hate ourselves and love they wealth
Nobody knows what it's like for us, except us
Don't assimilate much cuz they don't accept us
Brought Jesus and diseases and in God we trust
Selling liberty and justice but it's really just us
Nobody knows what it's like for us, except us
Don't assimilate much cuz they don't accept us
Brought Jesus and diseases and in God we trust
Selling liberty and justice but it's really just us
Nobody knows
Bodies of oceans rose
Over truths domed
With a toll of souls
Take a native land run that exploitation
Break a native man lower expectation
Spain then JapanAmerican-canization
Heathen when I'm breathin ya I'm godforsaken
Low self image, low standard of living
Make us feel big for what little they giving
Dependent on the drugs and food that they ship in
Contaminate the water that my baby is sipping
Send us off to die - it's for god and country
Selling genocide yeah they tryna fuck me
Brown people, my people, go and check Gill-Baza
Parts of my island still look like Gaza
They can buy bombs but they can't buy healthcare
Everybody's mom still living on welfare
Can't make it here, so we making it elsewhere
You can get rich but you can't get wealth there