Check your reflection Stop worrying about complexion Stop thinking you is the exception They rigging yo election There's a war going on outside No man is safe from Ain't bout where you at But really where you came from To keep it all 100 It's bout really where ya ain't from The rich got it all Yet the poor is where they take from Snakes'll tempt you with the apple in the apple But ain't take one Picasso with these words, now let me paint some Asking myself should I picket or riot Sit-in or be quiet But swallowing pride ain't in my diet Can't live your truth if you dying in it So lying down and taking it Nah I ain't with it Build your foundation And make a wish Food for thought Now make a dish Heard the scoop from Fox News that hate exist O'Reilly Harvard can't comment on my culture Birds of a feather flock together And sir you are a vulture Just trying not to lose all of my sense Current events dictated by how that currency spent Went to school for a better life Passed all of your test But got some loans so big that make you worry to death Remember black prez is still a black man So we get beat up by the boys He get beat down by the man So no matter how much you try to save one There's still a Mike Brown or Trayvon Shit is still shit no matter what plate it's ate on So accident or not we're trying to stop these Walter Scotts But give them seven days, they forget your Freddie Grays When you find it hard to breathe Go ahead and Garner all your pain They tried to throw me to the wolves without a thing Came back full I'm a king Yeah yeah they shoot, but ain't shot I mean really, how you gonna kill a god? Snakes try to eat your food and take your Eve And leave ya naked in the leaves Yeah yeah they cool, but ain't hot Shit can't make em what they not Cause I been working too damn hard To get these two days off,off And they always say the truth gone hurts cause the truth ain't yours Don't believe em (No justice, no peace) Don't believe em (No justice, no peace) Don't believe em (No justice, no peace) Don't believe em (No justice, no peace) And I been working two straight for two days And won't drink they Kool-Aid Gon' eat tracks like buffets Gon' kill raps need bouquets It's a fiasco like Lupe It's been mundane since Tuesday Kick it one way like Lu Kang Said life's a bitch, but who's saying it Heard about some bills of rights Then who paying it If the hood's a war zone, who slaying them Oh we soldiers now, then who making them Man ain't nobody gonna give a fuck about your life if you taking them They tried to throw me to the wolves without a thing Came back full I'm a king Yeah yeah they shoot, but ain't shot I mean really, how you gonna kill a god? Snakes try to eat your food and take your Eve And leave ya naked in the leaves Yeah yeah they cool, but ain't hot Shit can't make em what they not Momma went to college Daddy went to college Man we was still broke I wasn't thinking Harvard Even if I did go It wouldn't be that simple They say I'm just here cause a quota Go enlist to be a soldier The water out here poison so they just sell us soda Congress full of cobras Malcolm said I told ya Laws by yo senator Made aliens versus super predators And mandatory minimums Is just another synonym For nigga go to jail You a rapper Then million dollar bail You worth more to us in a cell Give em drugs Take them drugs Yeah it never fails Kill they dreams Before they waking up And they could never tell Why would you legalize weed When you get your labor free Product comes with a convict guarantee The US Sweatshop circa 2017 So we get a fucking life sentence For a fucking pair of jeans If orange is the new black Guess black is the new green They like it ain't nothing personal nigga That's just how we do things And I hear a lot of talk now bout making shit great again But give it four years And I bet you won't want eight of em