Smiles from the Rez, ZAOstock
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0:00A: From the rez, we survived every blast. Turned scars into scars that put the sun on our chest. We’re the skywalkins, in the street, dice stacking place. We’re the odd team, have a soul stacked to where we smile, and our rappers are middle finger facts. Res kids, we got the sunshine stitched in our vision. We’re gold money, top ladies, rizz intuition. We the faces from the law lines. At the beginning, it was fierce, didn’t really taste. It wasn’t realistic, they gave us broken systems. We built a culture and standards about who you were not. I’m just a South Bay kid, I don’t sing for a check.
0:00A: From my head, try to spread hope, and it’s the love I will project. We are rich in the things we get, my shorty, my down, thriving out in the urban valleys. We make struggles to scratch, you really love. Maybe you find a reason to dance every time that it rains. Oh, smiles from the rez, yeah, we laugh through it all. And we arc my steps, we still standing up. They try to break the circle, but we never let it fall. If you from the rez or not, put your hands up now. Smiles from the rez, we survive every blast. Turn scars into scars that put the sun on our chest.
0:00A: Yeah.
