TGOD808, Joey Bada$$ - Corruption & Racism lyrics
Joey Badass [Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott] Brooklyn, NY, U.S. 🇺🇸
[TGOD808, Joey Bada$$ - Corruption & Racism lyrics]
Yeah, you know sometimes I think
They don't truly understand me, you know
Cause they don't, yeah, uh
Sometimes I speak and I feel
Like it ain't my words
Like I'm just a vessel
Channeling inside this universe
I feel my ancestors unrested inside of me
It's like they want me to shoot
My chance in changing society
But how do I go about it?
Tell me where I start?
My destiny rerouted when I
Chose to follow heart
You told to follow suit
But tell me what it do for you?
Except weigh you down
Now you trapped inside the cubicle
They built for us
The first step into change is to take notice
Realize the real games that they
Tried to show us
300 plus years of them cold shoulders
Yet 300 million of us still got no focus
Sorry America, but I will not be your soldier
Obama just wasn't enough
I need some more closure
And Donald Trump is not equipped
To take this country over
Let’s face facts 'cause we know
What’s the real motives yeah
Uh trickery in the system
Put my niggas in prison
All our history hidden
Ain't no liberty given
We all fit the description of
What the documents written
We been lacking the vision and
Barely making a living
We too worried to fit in
While they been benefitin'
Every time you submittin'
We all guilty admit it
The Lord won't get you acquitted
But you still ask for forgiveness
Put opiates in syringes then
Inject his religion
How many times do I gotta tell you
I'm a man on a mission
Many times I gotta tell you
I don't need no permission
A human with super vision
Ain't no livin' condition
I'm reaching out to my children
Just hoping that they will listen
Start a new coalition
Against corrupt politicians
It's not enough pots to piss in
Too many murder convictions
Another family evicted
Another black man a victim
That's as real as it's getting
You should take recognition
They don't truly understand me, you know
Cause they don't, yeah, uh
Sometimes I speak and I feel
Like it ain't my words
Like I'm just a vessel
Channeling inside this universe
I feel my ancestors unrested inside of me
It's like they want me to shoot
My chance in changing society
But how do I go about it?
Tell me where I start?
My destiny rerouted when I
Chose to follow heart
You told to follow suit
But tell me what it do for you?
Except weigh you down
Now you trapped inside the cubicle
They built for us
The first step into change is to take notice
Realize the real games that they
Tried to show us
300 plus years of them cold shoulders
Yet 300 million of us still got no focus
Sorry America, but I will not be your soldier
Obama just wasn't enough
I need some more closure
And Donald Trump is not equipped
To take this country over
Let’s face facts 'cause we know
What’s the real motives yeah
Uh trickery in the system
Put my niggas in prison
All our history hidden
Ain't no liberty given
We all fit the description of
What the documents written
We been lacking the vision and
Barely making a living
We too worried to fit in
While they been benefitin'
Every time you submittin'
We all guilty admit it
The Lord won't get you acquitted
But you still ask for forgiveness
Put opiates in syringes then
Inject his religion
How many times do I gotta tell you
I'm a man on a mission
Many times I gotta tell you
I don't need no permission
A human with super vision
Ain't no livin' condition
I'm reaching out to my children
Just hoping that they will listen
Start a new coalition
Against corrupt politicians
It's not enough pots to piss in
Too many murder convictions
Another family evicted
Another black man a victim
That's as real as it's getting
You should take recognition