Fam Jam(Fe Sum Immigrins)-Shad

[ti:Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)] [ar:Shad] [al:Flying Colours] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fam Jam(Fe Sum Immigrins) - Shad [00:00.69]I'm proud of my nephew [00:01.68]Yeah [00:02.31]I'm proud of my nephew my niece [00:04.53]Yeah well no mostly the nephew [00:06.45]This is focusing on the nephew [00:07.63]Especially the one in Toronto [00:08.61]Yeah this is the one [00:09.68] [00:14.58]From donated clothes to caps and gowns [00:16.60]It's a little shout to my black and brown [00:19.06]Folks that know the game not in class to clown [00:21.49]Had the funny accent look who's laughing now [00:24.10]See Samir came here to grind [00:25.68]And he slaved at [00:26.57]Every minimum wage job but he saved that [00:28.99]Brought his sis here on scholarship to make stacks [00:31.39]Working as a surgeon she bought a whip and payed cash [00:34.52]No time to whine we just face facts [00:36.57]Lets fit 6 in the back and let's take that [00:39.07]To the best restaurants make reservations [00:41.60]Since we out here since they made reservations for [00:44.59]First Nations and they never made reparations [00:46.51]The Natives probably relate more to immigration [00:49.06]So just for y'all too and I can't forget the Haitians [00:51.37]Here for an education its a celebration [00:53.92] [01:13.30]To the guys that draw lines and make the borders real [01:15.67]But then bend the rules when there's more to drill [01:18.04]Don't turn away the stateless think of the waste [01:20.63]If one in 3 refugees is a Lauryn Hill [01:22.85]Come along way you can move forward still [01:25.70]From the poorest to up by Lawrence or Forest Hill [01:28.09]But more than that skrillery banks just chill [01:30.62]Make a home just build in a zone less ill [01:32.95]In a place to be safe few found an escape route [01:35.58]Where we come from so we grateful to Jesus [01:37.69]And now the top is the next stop this drop [01:40.65]Oughtta have my Aunts on the guest spot red hot [01:43.02]I'm talking going from sweatshops to tech stocks [01:45.10] [01:45.79]Doctors Without Borders with dreadlocks [01:47.36] [01:48.26]We quoting S Dot Carter on Otis [01:50.11]Turns out some fresh off the boat kid wrote this [01:52.78]Not bad [01:53.40] [02:10.65]Check it out [02:11.15] [02:12.52]Now when you're Third World born but First World formed [02:14.66]Sometimes you feel pride sometimes you feel torn [02:17.59]See my Mother's tongue is not what they speak where my Mother's from [02:20.21]She moved to London with her husband when their son was 1 [02:22.70]And one time after Family Ties [02:24.80]I turned on the news and saw my family die [02:27.26] [02:28.42]Pops said there's murder in the motherland [02:30.23]Things about colonialism I didn't understand [02:32.06] [02:32.78]All the things that shape a man in his mind state [02:35.18]A community income and crime rate [02:37.65]If times change why my people still in dire straits [02:39.69]If it's a big world show me where's my place [02:42.29]In it I had to talk to Pops for a minute [02:44.57]He said Shad this world wasn't home to begin with [02:46.96]Just keep defending the oppressed take steps [02:49.38]And keep rapping you might just be the best [02:51.36]Well yes