Check your reflection
Stop worrying about complexion
Stop thinking you is the exception
They rigging yo election
There's a war going on outside
No man is safe from
Ain't bout where you at
But really where you came from
To keep it all 100
It's bout really where ya ain't from
The rich got it all
Yet the poor is where they take from
Snakes'll tempt you with the apple in the apple
But ain't take one
Picasso with these words, now let me paint some
Asking myself should I picket or riot
Sit-in or be quiet
But swallowing pride ain't in my diet
Can't live your truth if you dying in it
So lying down and taking it
Nah I ain't with it
Build your foundation
And make a wish
Food for thought
Now make a dish
Heard the scoop from Fox News that hate exist
O'Reilly
Harvard can't comment on my culture
Birds of a feather flock together
And sir you are a vulture
Just trying not to lose all of my sense
Current events dictated by how that currency spent
Went to school for a better life
Passed all of your test
But got some loans so big that make you worry to death
Remember black prez is still a black man
So we get beat up by the boys
He get beat down by the man
So no matter how much you try to save one
There's still a Mike Brown or Trayvon
Shit is still shit no matter what plate it's ate on
So accident or not we're trying to stop these Walter Scotts
But give them seven days, they forget your Freddie Grays
When you find it hard to breathe
Go ahead and Garner all your pain
They tried to throw me to the wolves without a thing
Came back full I'm a king
Yeah yeah they shoot, but ain't shot
I mean really, how you gonna kill a god?
Snakes try to eat your food and take your Eve
And leave ya naked in the leaves
Yeah yeah they cool, but ain't hot
Shit can't make em what they not
Cause I been working too damn hard
To get these two days off,off
And they always say the truth gone hurts cause the truth ain't yours
Don't believe em (No justice, no peace)
Don't believe em (No justice, no peace)
Don't believe em (No justice, no peace)
Don't believe em (No justice, no peace)
And I been working two straight for two days
And won't drink they Kool-Aid
Gon' eat tracks like buffets
Gon' kill raps need bouquets
It's a fiasco like Lupe
It's been mundane since Tuesday
Kick it one way like Lu Kang
Said life's a bitch, but who's saying it
Heard about some bills of rights
Then who paying it
If the hood's a war zone, who slaying them
Oh we soldiers now, then who making them
Man ain't nobody gonna give a fuck about your life if you taking them
They tried to throw me to the wolves without a thing
Came back full I'm a king
Yeah yeah they shoot, but ain't shot
I mean really, how you gonna kill a god?
Snakes try to eat your food and take your Eve
And leave ya naked in the leaves
Yeah yeah they cool, but ain't hot
Shit can't make em what they not
Momma went to college
Daddy went to college
Man we was still broke
I wasn't thinking Harvard
Even if I did go
It wouldn't be that simple
They say
I'm just here cause a quota
Go enlist to be a soldier
The water out here poison so they just sell us soda
Congress full of cobras
Malcolm said I told ya
Laws by yo senator
Made aliens versus super predators
And mandatory minimums
Is just another synonym
For nigga go to jail
You a rapper
Then million dollar bail
You worth more to us in a cell
Give em drugs
Take them drugs
Yeah it never fails
Kill they dreams
Before they waking up
And they could never tell
Why would you legalize weed
When you get your labor free
Product comes with a convict guarantee
The US Sweatshop circa 2017
So we get a fucking life sentence
For a fucking pair of jeans
If orange is the new black
Guess black is the new green
They like it ain't nothing personal nigga
That's just how we do things
And I hear a lot of talk now bout making shit great again
But give it four years
And I bet you won't want eight of em