Intro:
[S-I-A L-O-V-E
for the record, for the record
S-I-A L-O-V-E
for the record, for the record]

Why you verbalizing my name on a record?
You ain’t even got what it take
For the record, I’m a champ
you light weight
I’mma wreck you
before you make another mistake
you betta check your
facts, my resume
my credentials
watch how I do this work and get risiduals
watch how I open your mind
It’s monumental

Goddess on the mic shedding light
like I’m supposed to
I would like to invite
you to get into
another frame of mind with these rhymes
that will delight you
verbiage, vivid and vaste
give you an eye-full

You coming for me?
watch for the trap door
I’m a taoist Houdini
with these metaphors
keep it calm and sereen then it’s parcour
par for the course
more than you bargained for
like american marriage
departure and divorce
this endeavor you’re never gonna
survive of course

I might retreat but I never leave the scenery
won’t make a peep and you never know what you mean to me
my friends are close and I wash the feet of my enemy
so when I vanquish them, leave them with good memories

chorus:
[I got sunshine
and my own mind
for the record, for the record
When they watching
know I got ya
for the record, for the record
They won’t play me, no
not me baby, yeah
for the record, for the record, ooooh]

Some say, ‘where this come from?
How you go from a teacher to making albums?
How you start a career when most are half done?’
They ain’t half me
I’m stronger than the sun
In the midst of a fire
I will never burn
if you wish you can try me
I am not concerned
I desire for higher than gaia biosphere
you get the depth of the message I’m putting in your ear?
I’m an anomaly, honestly some will never learn
you gotta learn to live
go when it’s your turn

I take stock in my soul
‘cause I’m invested
I know I’m on the right road
because I blessed it
I’m in love with the present
it’s the best gift
now, who got what it take?
yeah you guessed it
some crumble and fall
I was built for it
their architecture is wrong
I’m equivalent
to the Temple of Heaven
and all the pyramids
now they quiver and shiverin’
when they’re hearing this

chorus:
[I got sunshine
and my own mind
for the record, for the record
When they watching
know I got ya'
for the record, for the record
They won’t play me, no
not me baby, yeah
for the record, for the record, ooooh]

Half maverick, half maven
all woman, all amazing
I made it this far and I don’t need your saving
you ain’t the hardest
that title’s been taken
by an unlikely candidate
don’t be mistaken
I’ve been overlooked and underestimated
no damsel in destress, I won’t negotiate
not impressed with your assets
or your associates
you like childish games?
find a child to play with
or better yet, predator
suicide and save us
the time and the energy
to have to do it later
I am the dopest
I could never not be
not for a moment
that ain’t my reality
I’ll never own that, I open doors for future seeds
because I owe them, like the doors opened for me
why all these grown men
acting like they cannot see
hip-hop is ours, it don’t belong to the industry
who got the heart
to take it back from the thieves
women fought when the men wouldn’t lead
staved off the French, British and Portuguese
for hundreds of years keeping Africa free
now hip-hop is Africa, what more do you need?
I’m not really asking ya
I plan to stay free!

chorus:
[Oooh, I got sunshine
and my own mind
for the record, for the record
When they watching
know I got ya
for the record, for the record
They won’t play me, no
not me baby, yeah
for the record, for the record

Can’t nobody, ain’t nobody gonna hold me down
they may try but they will never ever get my crown
oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh!]

mmmmmmm, mmm

outro:
[S-I-A L-O-V-E
for the record, for the record
S-I-A L-O-V-E
for the record, for the record]