[00:00.622]Yo D, what? Come on (Yeah)
[00:03.628]What? What? Come on (Yeah)
[00:05.543]"Give me the fortune, keep the fame," said my man Louis
[00:07.768]I agreed, know what he mean because we live the truest lie
[00:10.297]I asked him why we follow the law of the bluest eye
[00:12.947]He looked at me, he thought about it, was like, "I'm clueless, why?"
[00:15.748]The question was rhetorical, the answer is horrible
[00:18.225]Our morals are out of place and got our lives full of sorrow
[00:20.794]And so tomorrow coming later than usual
[00:22.458]Waiting on someone to pity us while we finding beauty in the hideous
[00:26.156]They say money's the root of all evil but I can't tell
[00:28.553]You know what I mean, pesos, francs, yens, cowrie shells, dollar bills
[00:31.890]Or is it the mindstate that's ill?
[00:33.864]Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build
[00:36.203]Over money and religion there's more blood to spill
[00:38.834]The wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal, what's the deal?
[00:41.646]A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke
[00:44.204]But my language universal they be reciting my quotes
[00:46.925]While R&B singers hit bad notes, we rock the boat of thought
[00:50.030]That my man Louis' statements just provoked
[00:52.194]Caught up, in conversations of our personal worth
[00:54.565]Brought up, through endangered species status on the planet Earth
[00:57.246]Survival tactics means, busting gats to prove you hard
[01:00.246]Your firearms are too short to box with God
[01:02.632]Without faith, all of that is illusionary
[01:05.174]Raise my son, no vindication of manhood necessary
[01:07.946]Not strong (Only aggressive)
[01:09.162]Not free (We only licensed)
[01:10.344]Not compassionate, only polite (Now who the nicest?)
[01:13.164]Not good but well behaved
[01:14.149](Chasing after death, so we can call ourselves brave?)
[01:16.837]Still living like mental slaves
[01:18.177]Hiding like thieves in the night from life
[01:20.645]Illusions of oasis making you look twice
[01:23.084]Hiding like thieves in the night from life
[01:25.894]Illusions of oasis making you look twice
[01:28.351]Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listening agree
[01:30.894]That everything you see ain't really how it be
[01:33.730]A lot of jokers out running in place, chasing the style
[01:36.293]Be a lot going on beneath the empty smile
[01:38.987]Most cats in my area be loving the hysteria
[01:41.572]Synthesized surface conceals the interior
[01:44.337]America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages
[01:47.639]More than usually, speaking loudly
[01:49.519]Saying nothing, you confusing me, you losing me
[01:51.489]Your game is twisted, want me enlisted in your usury
[01:54.411]Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly
[01:56.710]Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception
[01:59.850]Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the looking glass
[02:02.746]Walking the street, wondering who they be looking past
[02:05.278]Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on
[02:07.737]Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on
[02:10.339]Same song, just remixed, different arrangement
[02:13.241]Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship
[02:15.505]Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this
[02:18.308]Screaming "brand new", when they just sanitized the old shit
[02:20.992]Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick
[02:23.571]That they been running across stars through all the time with
[02:26.133]I find it's distressing, there's never no in-between
[02:28.625]We either niggas or Kings, we either bitches or Queens
[02:31.116]The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse
[02:33.884]Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
[02:36.686]Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
[02:39.018]The length of black life is treated with short worth
[02:41.498]Get yours first, them other niggas secondary
[02:44.210]That type of illing that be filling up the cemetery
[02:46.749]This life is temporary but the soul is eternal
[02:49.779]Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you
[02:52.126]Not strong, only aggressive cause the power ain't directed
[02:54.798]That's why we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
[02:57.530]Not free, we only licensed, not live, we just exciting
[02:59.898]Cause the captors own the masters to what we writing
[03:02.710]Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
[03:05.215]Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
[03:07.660]Not good, but well behaved cause the camera survey
[03:10.157]Most of the things that we think, do or say
[03:12.923]We chasing after death just to call ourselves brave
[03:15.578]But everyday, next man meet with the grave
[03:18.161]I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy
[03:20.913]I'm trying to live life in the sight of God's memory like that y'all
[03:25.778]A lot of people don't understand the true criteria of things
[03:28.901]Can't just accept the appearance, have to get the true essence
[03:34.015](They ain't looking around)
[03:34.538]Not strong (Only aggressive)
[03:35.311]Not free (We only licensed)
[03:36.428]Not compassionate, only polite (Now who the nicest?)
[03:39.147]Not good but well behaved
[03:40.437](Chasing after death, so we can call ourselves brave?)
[03:43.050]Still living like mental slaves
[03:44.565]Hiding like thieves in the night from life
[03:46.755]Illusions of oasis making you look twice
[03:49.312]Hiding like thieves in the night from life
[03:52.005]Illusions of oasis making you look twice(x2)
[04:05.090]Stop hiding, stop hiding, stop hiding yo' face
[04:10.034]Stop hiding, stop hiding, cause ain't no hiding place
[04:19.481](Ad libs to fade)