Apathy has woven me into her reality
I see so many children treat themselves like deffenbaughs waste
being a man is catching a case
and school is a land fill full of wasted opportunity.
My community has the blues
scholars don't wanna follow the rules
I before E except after C
intelligence before exocist except after consequence.
Black with authority is disrespected by minorities
we have back stabbing,
back biting, denying and lying
to our priorities.
If a black man takes a stand
his wife yells sit down.
The Paseo band wouldn't calm down so they could play
until the parents had too much to say
because when they started to play
the parents prevented me from hearing them anyway.
Apples don't fall far from trees
even on hills
because the seeds are left in the valley
looking up to mountains without climing.
The Central's coach says the athletes have no discipline
they believe race is a birth right to winning
until Pembrookhill is killing urban athletics
with logic based mathematics.
No answers without solutions
no solutions without problems
they out smart all our heart
so we fight fire with fire balling
shot calling and stalling on the street corner
the opposite of fire with fire
that's stupid trying to get fired
for unemployment.
We critisize the nerds who can read
like this is the ninteen forties and they are accomplishing something.
We run to the church and worship a false God
because all blame rolls up hill
and responsibility died on calvery
but God helps those who help themselves
meaning change happens when humanbeings
are on their job growing in the actions of an ideal.
We believe in a false hope
becasue faith without works are dead
and like the nigga said
If I don't keep it real grimy for a dime
somebody else will
but every one who changes their life
sacrifices use to for something new.
The fool young or old says this is all I know
but the trick is on the fool
becasue every day you learn something new
to choose with what to do.
Skipping school is a choice not the thing to do
so you can go do what you want to
but refusing to learn how to take care of yourself
is self hatred when ever you get through
lying to your self is worse than lying to some one else.
The children wanna go swimming but can't pay to get in the pool,
wanna be cool but can't pay the lights
and this is why I'm hot this is whay I'm hot
this is why, this is why
this is why I'm hot becasue
I paid the gas bill
while your still trying to fill your pockets
with artifacts
without art in facts
this is why 2pac got shot
talking bout is glock
but when I saw him on the block
sixteen bars got him popped
rapping what your not to get a knot
locked and loaded in a lyrical drive by
telling lies
because without self worth other than false pride
you would have committed suicide.
We live by quotes but don't know why
what's up? Shit
what's happenin? Nothing
where you going? nowhere
how you gettn there? money fool
but only a fool would want something
he doesn't know how to use
to achieve something that has no defining goal
other than to be up to shit.
We get higher than an higher education graded on a curve
because the curb is the only thing turning the corner.
We brag about what we had being bad on grand theft auto,
We cop what we got mesmerized by halo
and we recite history of what we did on play station
planted on the couch getting fat like a patato
representing or skin only on the surface
because when it comes to accomplishment
virtual relatiy is worthless.
I'm a sixties baby working afros, dread locks and soul.
My black fist glows protest
as young folks dap fist
since they forgot how to fight with hands
symbolizing reading the laws
calculating injustice
and writing new legislation
because respect is an occupation
but gun play
wrote new laws to put our lives on pause
because slavery is indoctrination.
Black people have suffered bastardization
nothing gets respect but a dead president
as we worship the hand that enslaves us.
We cuss because we're to microwave to use the oven
and warm up reactions to critism
plus its already hot in the kitchen
missing the fact you have to be cool to listen.
We fuss at the symptons
throw away the medicine
got a house on the hamptons
which might as well be 39th and prospect
since a stereotype is suspect
to the projects of interrogation.
Drugs and entertaining are our education
videos maintaining the status flow
bitches and hoes
money cars and clothes
but no soul
because i soul at least has a goal in heaven
while niggas popularize surviving.
We sag use to wearing bags
or showing our ass
when we asked the master for clothes and he said to bad
and sad turned to anger,
management became a stranger
while pride died and life
looked for a drive by to kill apathy inside