Centering Black masculinist epistemologies and critical pedagogy, Border-Breaker is a rap song and an intersectional, critical method that examines how Black manhood is bordered, monitored, negotiated, and controlled both internally and externally, and formally and informally, within Black communities, Black geographies, society, and the carceral system. Drawing on the tradition of imaginative storytelling in Hip Hop and Black culture in the 21st century, the artist employs wordplay and lyrical skill to highlight the over-policing and surveillance of Black masculine bodies and to confidently challenge the powers that be, including the state, for its negative control over Black vulnerability. This song depicts the Black masculine body as a resisting entity and a checkpoint, using lyrical devices rooted in Hip Hop culture to communicate its message. The author/artist emphasizes healing and care practices, faith, spirituality, brotherhood, and resistance throughout this sociopolitical interrogation. The artist situates this work within a lineage of Hip Hop lyricism and Black radical expression, drawing influence from artists such as Lauryn Hill, Nas, KRS-One, Talib Kweli, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Nicki Minaj, Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah, and Common, among others.