What is “No Ceiling” about?
"No Ceiling" is about refusing limits set by others, starting from a promise made at twelve never to stay where he began. Kairo West calls on Harriet Tubman as a compass and Booker T. Washington as a builder, puts family first and the work second, and insists the sky is not a limit but "just where I breathe." As the eighth track on Baldwin Bus Receipt, it closes the album's run of high-energy affirmations before Neighborhood Amen turns toward community and prayer.
No Ceiling lyrics
Told myself at twelve I'd never stay where I began
Harriet inside the compass steady guiding the plan
Every door they locked I found another way to stand
Ceiling cracking open watch me break it with my hands
Money talk but legacy is louder understand
Building something bigger than a check or a brand
Map the constellation put the stars where I am
No ceiling no limit this is how legends land
No ceiling no ceiling above me
They built the roof but it can't hold me
No ceiling no ceiling I'm free
Sky ain't the limit it's just where I breathe
Booker T was building when they said it couldn't work
Now I'm stacking knowledge like the ancestors alert
Every setback setup watch me flip it stay alert
Diamonds in the pressure they don't know what I am worth
Count the blessings heavy never measure by the hurt
Put the family first then I go and put in work
Elevation station every verse is like a birth
No ceiling on the dream we turning vision into earth
No ceiling no ceiling above me
They built the roof but it can't hold me
No ceiling no ceiling I'm free
Sky ain't the limit it's just where I breathe
Break it break it through
Everything they said we couldn't do
No ceiling no ceiling above me
They built the roof but it can't hold me
No ceiling no ceiling I'm free
Sky ain't the limit it's just where I breathe