Tom MacDonald - Sad Rappers lyrics

Where'd all these suicidal sad
Rappers come from? They showed up with those
Mumble rapper dum dums
They been preying on people
With mental illness
And pretending to relate to get
Paid and create a business
They claim to be anxious
Say they're depressed
They're fakin' it to gain something in common
With some fans for a cheque
It's over-diagnosed, so it's becomin' a trend
To say you're crazy or insane or
That you're sick in the head
They romanticize the mental pain
We're barely survivin'
And then they glorify the men
And women losing their lives
I'm talking Cobain, Lil Peep
Winehouse, Jackson, Williams, Cornell
Bennington


Imagine all the icons that we buried
Probably turnin' in they grave
So they could witness how this sickness
Gettin' used to get paid
These rappers fabricating symptoms for fame
Their mental illness is the money on they
Mind, it started rottin' they brains, yeah

Y'all ain't real from the chains to the gear
To the grills, now it's pain, talkin' tears
Takin' pills y'all ain't real, I can see it
In your eyes, all lies
Y'all guys don't know how we feel
Y'all ain't real enough to deal with
Us, to feel the love, nah nah nah nah
Y'all just make-believe, you claim to
Be the same as me, nah nah nah nah

People die from depression
These rappers cry for attention
And it's in every single genre
You could possibly mention
From pop to electronic, to rock, to indie
To grunge
They're tryna hook you into usin' the
Music like it's a drug
Get you addicted to artists
They manufactured to target
All of the people in therapy
Tryna deal with they hardships
Crafted and marketed 'til they
Had you convinced
That if you follow that person
They make you fine in your skin
They ain't really tryna help you
They don't wanna make you better
It's a lie they tryna sell you
So you always buy their records
If you wanna know the truth
They want you strugglin' forever
So you look to them for answers
With your Visa or your debit
It's like the record labels
Workin' for pharma
They made anxiety trendy by
Using popular artists
Then use the rappers to promote
Prescription pills to their audience
They created the problem to sell you
Pills that would solve 'em, it's brilliant

Y'all ain't real from the chains to the gear
To the grills, now it's pain, talkin' tears
Takin' pills y'all ain't real, I can see it
In your eyes, all lies
Y'all guys don't know how we feel
Y'all ain't real enough to deal with
Us, to feel the love, nah nah nah nah
Y'all just make-believe, you claim to
Be the same as me, nah nah nah nah

Exploiting our problems to benefit
They just wanna get paid
I spend all my money on medicine
Spend all your money on chains
Y'all just exploiting the misery
Poppin' Xannies to fade
Well, I'm throwin' ones into therapy
'Cause all I know is rain

Y'all ain't real from the chains to the gear
To the grills, now it's pain, talkin' tears
Takin' pills y'all ain't real, I can see it
In your eyes, all lies
Y'all guys don't know how we feel
Y'all ain't real enough to deal with
Us, to feel the love, nah nah nah nah
Y'all just make-believe, you claim to
Be the same as me, nah nah nah nah

Y'all ain't real from the chains to the gear
To the grills, now it's pain, talkin' tears
Takin' pills y'all ain't real, I can see it
In your eyes, all lies
Y'all guys don't know how we feel
Y'all ain't real enough to deal with
Us, to feel the love, nah nah nah nah
Y'all just make-believe, you claim to
Be the same as me, nah nah nah nah