Mirror is a weapon

🎤 Verse – Female Voice / Kendrick Flow – “The Mirror Is a Weapon”

Mama cried when the rent bounced twice like a remix

Pops dipped out — said the system gon’ beat this

Preacher said pray, but the fridge still leanin’

So I boosted from the store while my stomach kept screamin’

Auntie hit the rock, never made her way back

Sis got jumped tryna earn her name back

School gave me fear, not a vision to lead

Taught me how to march, but not how to be free

Every homegirl bruised or behind a wall

We dodge bullets and boys tryna play God, that’s all

They built liquor stores next to where we fall

Then arrested us for sippin’ — like it ain’t their law

I talk to myself when the world play ghost

Trauma in my blood like a lover too closeMama cried when the rent bounced twice like a remix

Pops dipped out — said the system gon’ beat this

Preacher said pray, but the fridge still leanin’

So I boosted from the store while my stomach kept screamin’

Auntie hit the rock, never made her way back

Sis got jumped tryna earn her name back

School gave me fear, not a vision to lead

Taught me how to march, but not how to be free

Every homegirl bruised or behind a wall

We dodge bullets and boys tryna play God, that’s all

They built liquor stores next to where we fall

Then arrested us for sippin’ — like it ain’t their law

I talk to myself when the world play ghost

Trauma in my blood like a lover too close

I don’t want Gucci, I need peace with a pulse

But I still keep a blade laced under my coat

I had dreams with no shoes, runnin' wild in the rain

Now I walk through hell in heels, laughin' at pain

They label me angry, they label me loud

But stay biting my soul when I speak to a crowd

I lost friends to pride, lost love to the grave

Lost years to men that just wanted a slave

I gave and I gave, now I snatch what’s mine

I’m divine with a past, that’s a holy bloodline

Taught myself to read pain like it’s scripture

Every scar on my skin is a framed-up picture

I survived every fire, now I spit like a preacher

And my words cut deep — I don’t need no feature

They told me to smile, stay soft, stay cute

I told ‘em I’m a blade in a thousand-dollar suit

I walk like a war, talk like a sermon

This ain’t rap — this a black girl burnin’

They say, “Queen, tell ‘em what the truth is”

I say, “They don’t hear us ‘til the chalk draws conclusions”

Every line a wound, every bar a confession

I ain’t rappin’ for a crown — this mirror is a weapon

I don’t want Gucci, I need peace with a pulse

But I still keep a blade laced under my coat

And they say, “Queen, tell ‘em what the truth is”

I say, “They don't hear us ‘til the body’s in a news clip”

Every line a wound, every bar a confession

I ain't rappin' for a crown — this mirror is a weapon