[Verse 1:]
Keep Shining

The shadows grow
The light is dim
A torch to show
A path through the din
We need Audre Lorde in hip hop
And if she were here now we’d say “you don’t stop”
We need immigrants, we need feminists
We need conscious poets, we need activists
But now to stun let’s set the phasers
Cause Macklemore’s acting like a Trailblazer
Getting his name etched in bas-relief
Dawg, make like wood and Le1f!
Straight white guy, getting props
What about Cakes da Killa, have you heard his drops?
Or Big Freedia, the trans* dancehall queen?
And where’s Nicki at, she's supposed to be mean
But I don’t hear a meaning to her mean-ing
So it’s empty like a colon: post juice cleans-ing

[Verse 2:]

Keep Shining

Other immigrants are coming on strong
Love to Shad, Blitz, and K’naan
And I’m always proud to be Canadianese
But doubly so when we’ve got lines like these:
“This isn’t gay rap, do gay chefs make gay food?”
Smart words from an F’in Virtue-ous dude
"Cause who the kids gonna listen to?"
It won't be me so it better be Audre's crew
You ask what’s my business on the track
You say cultural appropriation’s super wack
I say let’s just call it an ‘omage
To the only type of music I feel at home in

[Verse 3:]

Keep Shining

Her mom taught her how to keep apart
Gennie taught her how to be a part
Of something, Murs taught her amor
Nah that was Eudora for sure
And Afrekete brought it home
That home is a place that lives in the dome
She knows there’s no curls too tight
No mind too bright
No skin too dark to keep shining