Baba Brinkman - Survival of the Fittest lyrics
[Baba Brinkman - Survival of the Fittest lyrics]
Yeah, I’m sendin’ this one out
To my evolutionary psychology people
Yeah, David Buss, Cosmides and Tooby
Yeah Geoffrey Miller
Yeah, we livin’ this ‘til the day that we die
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
There’s a war goin’ on outside
No man is safe from
You can run but you can’t hide forever
If you come to my block
You’ll see some territoriality
A place where kill or be
Killed is the mentality but get it straight
It’s just a necessary strategy
You gotta play the hand you’re
Dealt you can’t magically
Escape from the habitat that you was born in
Three homicides in my
Neighbourhood this mornin’
Cops came and kicked the crooked door in
With no warnin’
And started roughin’ up my young cousin
She’s only seventeen and got a
Bun in the oven
Plus a concussion, but she ain’t done nothin’
So keep your mouth shut and
Don’t jump to judgment
On the lives we’re livin’ – just
Close your eyes and listen
While I break down some homicide statistics
So if you’re thinkin’ the criminal
Mind is just vacant you’re mistaken
This is calculated risk takin’
We’re livin’ in a situation with a low
Life-expectancy, and a major discrepancy
Between the haves and the have nots
And you wonder why the padlock on every cash
Box is smashed off
C’mon, you can’t call it "pathological"
Nah, that’s illogical you can
Try to understand it
But, you can’t stop it though
Not unless you address the root causes
The conscious and unconscious
Decisions to discount future prospects
C’mon, it’s obvious – the beat keeps bouncing
The homicide rate keeps mounting, which leads
To steep discounting, and a lot of violence
But it’s not a virus it’s a rational response
To high risk environments and
Short time horizons
With high stakes and highly visible prizes
And you wonder why we’re criminal-minded
Hey, you can’t say we’ll get
Satisfaction if we’re patient
With self-control and delayed gratification
When the only job that pays is casket makin’
And death is the ultimate plan cancellation
So check the facts and recent data releasin’
You’ll see a pattern
Of increasin’ competition
A bunch of young guys all
Stugglin’ and status seekin’
And causin’ the crimes that make
The social fabric weaken
And life expectancy also
Predicts teen pregnancy
The need to leave a legacy genetically
Will never be completely
Controlled contraceptively
Yeah, that’s transparent – imagine
If your kids
Would never meet their grandparents
Unless you followed
The Bristol Palin plan for parenthood
And then they say, "Ooh
These young girls are so damn careless
Getting’ pregnant before marriage it’s
Such a tragedy"
Apparently it’s also a reproductive strategy
Especially when you can see
Them adjusting actively
When their circumstances change in
Both the cases
Of the young ladies with babies
And the male risk takers
You see people adapting to their situations
And it’s the same in different
Places and with different races
This is not about ethical justifications
It’s evolutionary psych
And it’s just the basics
And still people call
This behaviour "maladaptive"
Because of our reaction when violence happens
But, if we really want to change the outcome
Then maybe we should just start
Questioning how it’s adaptive
And the bottom line is that inequity and life
Expectancy are the ultimate causes of crime
And the results of crime to me that’s true
The two combine together in a feedback loop
But, I got some moves to make
So I’ll be back soon
Just don’t ask me what I’m about to do
‘Cause, I can’t say
So it’s left to untold fact
Until my death, my ghost will stay alive
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
That’s right
We livin’ this ‘til the day that we die
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
Yeah, sendin’ this out to
All my evolutionary psychologists
Daly and Wilson, Steven
Pinker, Robert Wright, yeah
David Sloan Wilson, yeah that’s right
Gather the evidence make it real
Make it real human mentality represent
Yeah, this is human nature –
Human nature to the core i’ma get mine
And you get yours don’t question my actions
Unless you’re ready to make
A little addition
Before I make a subtraction
End you up in traction that’s right
I love scrappin’ peace
To my evolutionary psychology people
Yeah, David Buss, Cosmides and Tooby
Yeah Geoffrey Miller
Yeah, we livin’ this ‘til the day that we die
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
There’s a war goin’ on outside
No man is safe from
You can run but you can’t hide forever
If you come to my block
You’ll see some territoriality
A place where kill or be
Killed is the mentality but get it straight
It’s just a necessary strategy
You gotta play the hand you’re
Dealt you can’t magically
Escape from the habitat that you was born in
Three homicides in my
Neighbourhood this mornin’
Cops came and kicked the crooked door in
With no warnin’
And started roughin’ up my young cousin
She’s only seventeen and got a
Bun in the oven
Plus a concussion, but she ain’t done nothin’
So keep your mouth shut and
Don’t jump to judgment
On the lives we’re livin’ – just
Close your eyes and listen
While I break down some homicide statistics
So if you’re thinkin’ the criminal
Mind is just vacant you’re mistaken
This is calculated risk takin’
We’re livin’ in a situation with a low
Life-expectancy, and a major discrepancy
Between the haves and the have nots
And you wonder why the padlock on every cash
Box is smashed off
C’mon, you can’t call it "pathological"
Nah, that’s illogical you can
Try to understand it
But, you can’t stop it though
Not unless you address the root causes
The conscious and unconscious
Decisions to discount future prospects
C’mon, it’s obvious – the beat keeps bouncing
The homicide rate keeps mounting, which leads
To steep discounting, and a lot of violence
But it’s not a virus it’s a rational response
To high risk environments and
Short time horizons
With high stakes and highly visible prizes
And you wonder why we’re criminal-minded
Hey, you can’t say we’ll get
Satisfaction if we’re patient
With self-control and delayed gratification
When the only job that pays is casket makin’
And death is the ultimate plan cancellation
So check the facts and recent data releasin’
You’ll see a pattern
Of increasin’ competition
A bunch of young guys all
Stugglin’ and status seekin’
And causin’ the crimes that make
The social fabric weaken
And life expectancy also
Predicts teen pregnancy
The need to leave a legacy genetically
Will never be completely
Controlled contraceptively
Yeah, that’s transparent – imagine
If your kids
Would never meet their grandparents
Unless you followed
The Bristol Palin plan for parenthood
And then they say, "Ooh
These young girls are so damn careless
Getting’ pregnant before marriage it’s
Such a tragedy"
Apparently it’s also a reproductive strategy
Especially when you can see
Them adjusting actively
When their circumstances change in
Both the cases
Of the young ladies with babies
And the male risk takers
You see people adapting to their situations
And it’s the same in different
Places and with different races
This is not about ethical justifications
It’s evolutionary psych
And it’s just the basics
And still people call
This behaviour "maladaptive"
Because of our reaction when violence happens
But, if we really want to change the outcome
Then maybe we should just start
Questioning how it’s adaptive
And the bottom line is that inequity and life
Expectancy are the ultimate causes of crime
And the results of crime to me that’s true
The two combine together in a feedback loop
But, I got some moves to make
So I’ll be back soon
Just don’t ask me what I’m about to do
‘Cause, I can’t say
So it’s left to untold fact
Until my death, my ghost will stay alive
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
That’s right
We livin’ this ‘til the day that we die
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
Yeah, sendin’ this out to
All my evolutionary psychologists
Daly and Wilson, Steven
Pinker, Robert Wright, yeah
David Sloan Wilson, yeah that’s right
Gather the evidence make it real
Make it real human mentality represent
Yeah, this is human nature –
Human nature to the core i’ma get mine
And you get yours don’t question my actions
Unless you’re ready to make
A little addition
Before I make a subtraction
End you up in traction that’s right
I love scrappin’ peace