BACKWORDZ LYRICS

1. Pop It Off

2015 was the year that we made it happen and we were born
And since then people been arguing about what genre we perform
Nu-Metal Rapcore we are none of those so stop acting stupid
I got an idea so shut the hell up sit back and enjoy the music

Backwordz in the building like we're the ceiling
We're Illin no matter who find it appealing
I'm here and I got a feeling that we'll be dealing a lot of pain wheres the penicillin
Get drilled in your head that we are monsters and yeah we come from slums and for some months we've been pumped but for once I am comfortable
I want to grow
I want some more success and I'm one to know that greatness can't be rushed
It can't be lust so we face the fuss and feel free to hate on us
We lace them up dues we done paid them up
Keep snakes away from us and safe from us you might wanna be
I remember when clowns used to make fun of me and now they want to be me
See me and they run to me I'm gonna be the greatest yeah I want to be
But I am not the one to be the fakest for the sake of being played
I am here like I had never left
Settle? Hell no 'cause I just can't fail
So just prepare your ears it'll get for real
A test from here we will never take the sell
it's grind time my mind and my thoughts my highs and my faults
My wins and my loss when will I fall off
it's a task for me you are now listening to "Veracity"

2. Individualism

Rise up!
I ain't saying I got the answers but too much collectivism is cancer
Kidnapping you with a ransom saying they gone save you like you're a damsel
But you're not in distress you're just stressed but partially causing it
Yes individuality the only way to succeed is secede

The government is full of dopes bro
You and I both know they broker than a joke though
You might as well run it back they drop the ball like running backs
We got robbed that's a funny fact and you're not getting the enemy back
But I'm okay with that if that means my kids kids kids kids aren't sold through slavery
A state is not saving me and I done went from A to Z
I know the ins and outs so please keep that stuff away from me

I'm not talking about reform
I'm saying stop selling assets of the unborn

Pushing forward
Realizing that we are the marked ones fighting for the freedom of the individual
Rise up own yourself and take back what you've made

We don't really need a revolution
Nah what we need is an evolution
Sort of a reach yeah it might be
But to win this war we gotta tap into the psyche
I'm saying you gotta look at it like this
This ain't a battle of might bro this is a battle of wits
This ain't all about the fighting this ain't a battle of fists
That's why I jump on the mic like education is bliss

Pushing forward
Realizing that we are the marked ones fighting for the freedom of the individual
Rise up own yourself and take back what you've made

Our best efforts is for a free society I'm probably gonna need to be put in succession efforts because once people see that as a perfect example
And the world just doesn't blow up then we can take succession all the way down to the individual

Frustrated as me why can't they see you wanna be free
We may disagree if you're not forcing it don't matter to me
Don't be a sheep just earn your keep until you're deceased
So I say succeed I say secede I say secede

Pushing forward
Realizing that we are the marked ones fighting for the freedom of the individual
Rise up own yourself and take back what you've made
Pushing forward
Realizing that we are the marked ones fighting for the freedom of the individual
Rise up own yourself and take back what you've made

3. Self Ownership

From the willfully ignorant the knowledge you won't get none.
But don't get it twisted I too was dumb and then some.
Support a politician, sit back and then twiddle his thumbs.
Not understanding that you have Stockholm Syndrome.

They have no desire to save you

It's not because the folks serving are not fit.
It's not because we don't have the right people in office.
It's not because a certain bracket is taxed a lot less
It's more because y'all fools don't understand the process.
Yo this is all just a game bro.
Y'all supported Bernie, that didn't work to well, did it though? Funneling millions to his campaign.
Swore he wasn't a crook until he endorsed the same thing.
Then you support the lesser of the evil fakers but it just repeats and we revisit this 4 years later
The State itself is based on theft and can't be fixed, so realize you own yourself and no one else.

Here we are again feeling stuck in this lie we're living.
Singing the same old song.
Are we wrong to break free from the chains we're in?

They have no desire to save you

Of course you see, I do speak cordially not metaphorically.
I like to speak informally with honesty but horribly y'all often like to appeal to all of the authority.
A step ahead of y'all that's the reason I brought my boy with me.

I know that promises of politicians are hollow so I know I'm better off ruling over myself no lie though, I know.
Will never rest until we all are free at last and every person will see that every person is free.
There is no half stepping.
With peace, you need non-aggression.
Slavery's not the best and self ownership is what we're lacking. Freedom will be the course no matter if you're reach or poor.
Self-defense is the only way that you should be using force.
And let me give a shout out to the people who only oppose government when it's convenient to.
You're like an edgy teenager who hates authority.
You'll stay in shackles so as long as you get a longer leash.
Liberty is not trendy.
It's an everyday thing to see that you're not a slave.
Let the people go and be free.

Here we are again feeling stuck in this lie we're living.
Singing the same old song.
Are we wrong to break free from the chains we're in?

It may seem bad 'cause they don't have to carry on
The same old song (same old song)
The same ritual (the same ritual)

Start making sense when you realize the lies.
I hate to say it, but your protesting is ill-advised.
You put your life into the hands of a bunch of silly guys.
It's a contradiction if freedom has to be legalized.
For example, when a cop's shooting a black man you focus on the racism, ignoring all the statism.
Holding signs, rioting is not about to save him cause you must've forgot that that's the power that you gave them.
Criminal justice reform is a euphemism.
For a bunch of dumb, foolish slaves with Stockholm Syndrome. Thinking they'll be held to the same standard, don't do it.
What? So they can investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing?
Bro, sit and think about this foolishness.
You hit the ballot box supporting fools that don't know you exist. Warfare, health care, and your minimum wage.
Call it progressive man, but you're an obedient slave.
Dang

Here we are again feeling stuck in this lie we're living.
Singing the same old song.
Are we wrong to break free from the chains we're in?

It may seem bad 'cause they don't have to carry on
The same old song (same old song)
The same ritual (the same ritual)

They have no desire to save you
They have no desire to save you
They have no desire to save you
They have no desire to save you
Nah they have no desire to save you
They have no desire to save you

4. Demon Rat

You think you know the ones you should be avoiding
Meanwhile one of your boys injecting the poison
You got folks next to you faking galore and he giving you money but you're making him more
A couple false promises it's obvious that you ain't getting nothing out of the deal but you back him for real
And they've been running your cities for about 70 years and you keep on supporting 'cause what he says appeals

You've gotta be out your mind
You're falling for the okie dokie and that's every time
They got a hold on you and it's one of a kind
What will it take to realize that they ain't on your side

You ignore the truth that's right in front of you
You still believe what you wanna believe
What's it gonna take for you to realize that everything is lost and you're to blame

I used to be under the spell
I was a dummy could tell now I just know you too well
Now I sit back and look at the fact that you have never been what you claim to be
You're a fake that's been snaking me
So while you guilt trip me to death
I got you out of the picture and I ain't missed a step
Kind of like you never left so you been feeding lies but my folks still treat you like the god that you're not

But I'll give you props on that
You got us by the gonads you're a snake in the grass
Blindly follow you and I can't be mad
'Cause that's on us though that's really sad

You ignore the truth that's right in front of you
You still believe what you wanna believe
What's it gonna take for you to realize that everything is lost and you're to blame

We're lost and you're to blame
We're lost and you're to blame

Social justice is what they're calling it now
it's more like masked racism I'm calling it out
Act superior but the empirical evidence shows that you think every other race is inferior though
So let's go ahead and get to the real
Decipher through all of the bull and I'll tell you the deal
And I don't give a crap how that makes you feel
Because the one you need to watch is the white liberal

He's a fox indeed
Showing all of his teeth but he's smiling cheek to cheek when will you see
Don't look to him to succeed 'cause it ain't what it seems and it's him that's pulling the string

You've gotta be out your mind
You're falling for the okie dokie and that's every time
They got a hold on you and it's one of a kind
What will it take to realize that they ain't on your side

You ignore the truth that's right in front of you
You still believe what you wanna believe
What's it gonna take for you to realize that everything is lost and you're to blame

Sing it

We're lost and you're to blame
We're lost and you're to blame
We're lost and you're to blame
We're lost and you're to blame

5. Statism

[feat. Craig Mabbitt of EscapeTheFate & Dead Rabbitts]

I'm livid when, the gimmicking wins
From beginning to end, no gimmick; if I rap it, dude I live it then
And you can't do it, so ain't no need for mimicking
I'm not innocent. I'm on a mission, so let me finish it
Matter of time before they summon the army in
I'm probably on the FBI's most wanted list
I'm probably going to end up hung like an ornament
I'm on a life mission to abolish all the government

It's dumb and I'm beyond pissed
So we're going to cut to the chase and get rid of metaphorical nonsense
None of that eloquent bogusness
I want you to know what it is sucka kid, y'all people keep voting in

They rob, kill, and steal by the day
I'd be a buffoon to trust the state
You're a tool and fool. Just keep taking the bait
Making mistake, after mistake, after mistake
Believe me, this ain't the typical "Oh the government's corrupt."
Bro, that's too easy
You gotta take responsibility because you willingly
Give power to the state, when it's the state that is your enemy

Stuck on stupid, you gotta be on it
Cry about violence but they got a monopoly on it
And you keep on buying in to what that man say
Not knowing that every mandate, just expands the state

Look around tell me what you see, because it's
Coming down, coming down. Are you listening?
Stop and look. This is what I mean:
It's going down. It's going down.

Look, it ain't really hard to keep up
The politician just hypnotized you with free stuff
More and more statism, and y'all people just eat up
Yet crying and you're protesting about how the police suck
Y'all don't get no sympathy from me, because that's the bed that you made
So you gotta lay
More inconsistent by the day, making mistake after mistake after mistake

At some time you gotta realize
That the same crap that you despise might be your demise
And I'd advise that you become more knowledgeable on subjects like economics that benefit
Not memes on the Internet
So when you're mad and you get so combative, you gotta step back and take a stab at your voting habits
The average man don't understand that he don't know;
You can be free or be a slave, but you can't be both.

Look around tell me what you see, because it's
Coming down, coming down. Are you listening?
Stop and look. This is what I mean:
It's going down. It's going down.

[Craig Mabbitt: Open Your Eyes]
The state you're in, is a state of mind.
Freedom disguised, the state you're in is a state of mind

So they're wanting a savior?
Yet everyday, we go through voluntary exchanges
They say, "Who's going to build the roads?" without taxation
So you give them a reason to confiscate my payments
And that's exactly what the state needs
For you to think you need them. But it's fake, see?
Maybe you'd see that they are what they swore to prevent
A monopolized corporation, it's called government

6. You Are You

I won't be held accountable for the hell of the past
I don't owe a penny or dime to amend for their crimes
Don't you see
You're illusioned and apologizing for events you had no part in
It's a mass delusion

Just due to my skin tone they applied a path for me
No matter what my ancestry was I was never a slave
I must find that it's asinine that you really think that the path of mine is determined by another mastermind like it's your life and that's out of line

We can't take the credit for what we did not endure
We can't pay for the mistakes that man has made before

Apply this to now
We can't take credit for our father's successes
This crown is not my own
Let me earn my keep let me pave my own way

Foolish when you sit and think about it
It is stupid that you would take credit for our history that you had nothing to do with
Acting bold and proud or acting like you're hurt
But you are owed nothing just because you stood on the same dirt
You are owed nothing

We can't take the credit for what we did not endure
We can't pay for the mistakes that man has made before

Go take what's yours
Pave your path and find it go decide it
Go take control
You're not obligated to not make it out
Go take what's yours
Pave your path and find it go decide it
Go take control
You're not obligated to not make it out

Just due to my skin tone they applied a path for me
No matter what my ancestry was I was never a slave
I must find that it's asinine that you really think that the path of mine is determined by another mastermind like it's your life and that's out of line

We can't take the credit for what we did not endure
We can't pay for the mistakes that man has made before

We can't take the credit for what we did not endure
(Go take what's yours
Pave your path and find it go decide it)
We can't pay for the mistakes that man has made before
(Go take control
You're not obligated to not make it out)

7. Tell Me

I be YG Rippa used to be the moniker
An honorable mention it was but now I seem to sign up for other things
Eric Rippa you get either one of em
When I say I'm not longer playing I don't mean the carnival
Y'all softer than gotten candy sweeter than funnel cake
I'm knowing that you're gonna hate but tell your dad his son's a fake
I steady grind from sun to eight I'm talking eight the next day that's why you getting lapped and I'm already on my next pace
Gone and I'm shot calling alone like Jerry Jones or Jerry Sloan
I've never feared for a scary moment
And I'm up on it this opportunity is golden but you should hold up if you're thinking I'd fold up, dawg
Metaphorically my balls bigger than the Trump Tower or the Eiffel one you ain't gotta like it once I'm itching success like a head that got the lice in them
And this is elementary since 10 I've been ciphering

I ain't never had nobody tell me that I would fall and they were right
And I ain't never had nobody tell me that I ain't never put up a fight

This track is aimed at the lame cats that can't rap but want to claim that the kangs back
Come on all I see is clones homes I'm saying that you drones can't rap spitting whack singing the same crap
I'm not liking you
It the truth that I might be rude
Dang quit biting dude swipe or no swiping dude
And I mean right now as weak as you might sound but like an underground water tunnel you need to pipe down
And it's so retarded
It's like y'all together in booths just to see who be spitting the most garbage
And after that y'all pick the ones that speak the most trash cosign him and sack-ride him until his nuts crash
What's that who gave these people a bus pass
I'm pissed I'm aged plus mad
Somebody put a muzzle on him need to shush that hush that
People don't know what's good or what's bad
Y'all done confused somebody making the latest moves for somebody that's actually spitting and has paid his dues
I'm aching to move steady slaying these faking fools not debating to dumb my raps down for the sake of you
Nowadays since rap is no longer talent based that'll make people completely forget the database and it baffles me
So I'm here ridding the rapping game with insecticides like is Rapper Raid

I ain't never had nobody tell me that I would fall and they were right
And I ain't never had nobody tell me that I ain't never put up a fight

8. Be Great

Work!
They say follow your dreams, but what does that mean?
'Cause dreams only come to a sleeper. Forget that; you need to wake up
Keep grinding instead. Keep that in your head
Praying and hoping is not enough 'cause faith without works is dead

Times what you make of it, no need to wait for it.
Shut up get on your grind.

Get up and be great
If I fail bro, that's all on me
You can't stop me 'cause I'll be great
You ain't gotta believe what I say
It don't matter 'cause I'll be great
Best bets to get out of my way
Tunnel vision I can't be swayed
You can't stop be, cause I'll be great

Stop, being envious of everybody that's around you
You're not poor, 'cause they're rich.
Realize this: It's not fair, get over it
If you spent as much time working on your craft as you did complaining... well.
You wouldn't have the time or energy to be worried about everybody else

If life is not in tact, complaining won't get that;
A complete waste of your time

Let me talk to them

Why do you want to cry and complain?
Why in the Hell are you on sidelines? Get in the Game!
When it comes to my mind, it's all the way made
If you think you're outworking me, then you are insane
That's my attitude; stay in a battle mood.
Fear no man longitude or latitude
Broke or well off. seems that you had to choose.
But I ain't mad it you, so beast it like an animal.

Get up and be great
If I fail bro, that's all on me
You can't stop me 'cause I'll be great
You ain't gotta believe what I say
It don't matter 'cause I'll be great
Best bets to get out of my way
Tunnel vision I can't be swayed
You can't stop be, cause I'll be great

Maybe you knew me back when I was,
Flag waving and gangbanging from yours to my hood
Driving my momma up a wall like it was all good
If it was fighting involved, didn't hesitate to fall through it.

Maybe you knew me as YG Rippa
When me and J Dunn would beef on you just a little
But we knew we had to fiddle with, we were not happy innocents
Had the upper hand 'cause we were literate

Yet idiots would step up and get they dumb butts bodied on microphones
I earned my stripes 'cause I was nice was hype when I was writing on
The pad but if I had to fight then I could get my Viking on
I'd supply the cake and J Dunn would slap the icing on

I just so happen to be rapping since the age of 10
Like a God given talent probably Back to praising him,
Can't get pretend I'm new to this stuff
'Cause I been doing this bruh
Don't be a fool get ripped up,
Cruising for bruisings mister? wait

Maybe you knew me back when I was grooving
Me and the gig squad put on for the Dallas boogie
And I had cameo up after cameo
The biggest one being the Teach Me How To Dougie video

Maybe you know me from college when I was,
Running those track meets
And I was actually a decent enough, athlete to break a couple school records, I'm proud of that joint
Came a long way from gangbanging up to that point

Maybe you know me from my YouTube
And all those vocal covers and music ventures I used to.
Or, Maybe you know me talking politics
Talking ancap libertarianism, all of it.

But last
Maybe you know me from my old band
Not Leviathan, the Gods I left Fire From
Not acting like a higher form, to hold my punch I had to be
But now I'm in position to answer what you've been asking me

We parted ways 'cause I didn't think we had foundation laid
They wanted to tour just to do it, which was stupid, so
I was not about that and I wouldn't allow that
'Cause I happen to grow up broke and I wasn't going back to that
And that's the facts we left on good terms...
Yea, but dang I would surely learn for the worse it took a turn
'cause the fools try to replace me with some dude that would favor me,
I hate to be that guy but these lame babies shouldn't play me

And they didn't even try to hide it you and I know
The first song they tried to drop was a song that I wrote
I record it before I left and that was just a sin to me
They got some whack cat to try his hardest just to mimic me
Copy appearance to the mannerism
Still let em make it 'til I heard these weak misses were sneak dissing
Gotta a lotta balls in it but I will have no part of it
Face the fact, it's the opposite of what an artist is
You are factory made
And you gotta go to grave with that bro.
High side and act though/ originality is what you lack so
Tell ya kids that all your career is based a piggy back though
"Oh, he mad 'cause they got signed and Backwordz didn't."
Shut up fool you must be an idiot. Oblivious.
Don't make a fool out yourself. 'cause you not real.
Over the past year we done past like 5 deals
And now we in a situation that is helping me
We own our own publishing and this is still a self release
And BackWordz is a brand which was hard to get
We didn't sign a deal we were looking for a partnership
Now we gotta team and it's all business
I say if you with it, then you with it
The number of views can be at 20 million or a lot less
But we ain't sell our souls in the process I'll take that

You gotta get out there.
You're running yourself into the ground.
You gotta move on now and get up and get out. You can find your way somehow

Be great

Get up and be great
If I fail bro, that's all on me
You can't stop me 'cause I'll be great
You ain't gotta believe what I say
It don't matter 'cause I'll be great
Best bets to get out of my way
Tunnel vision I can't be swayed
You can't stop me, cause I'll be great

9. So To Speak

[Instrumental]

10. Praxeology

Y'all wanna learn something today?

The debt is at 20 trillion
Why bro? Fundamental econ economic calculation trying to predict a market full of millions
No must be slower than a snails nest that crap don't even pass the small test
Needs less Keynes and Mises then you'll understand why we're in a recess

You're inviting in the poorest men but follow logic to its end
Production seized drives us into poverty
Greed doesn't end with loss of liberty

This ain't just Republican or Democrats this is about a handful of bureaucrats
Know the exact cost of a spending act how in the world can they dictate that
It doesn't make a lick of sense Keynesianism might be the death of us all
The most tanked economies were centrally planned
You get sadness you get famine you get poverty you get everybody just starving

You're inviting in the poorest men but follow logic to its end
Production seized drives us into poverty
Greed doesn't end with loss of liberty

Should read the Road To Serfdom
Claim they love the poor but their policies hurt them
Giving them power but is it really worth the trouble when you're productive and your means get needed
Free enterprises seems to rise living standards but man will politic if he ain't got the answers and damage up an economy of he is envious immediately run the other way if he is leading you

You're inviting in the poorest men but follow logic to its end
Production seized drives us into poverty
Greed doesn't end with loss of liberty

Loss of liberty

11. The Professional Protester

Fake fraud I see it in your eyes
Keep putting up that facade and it's probably gon' be your surprise
Acting tough until the wheels fall off and you can protest
Yet ignore the heart of the issue and you know this
I done seen so many folks call themselves pro black ready to March at the drop of a hat but they won't dare criticize the folks in their own town running their city into the ground 'cause they terrorize too
The only difference is they look just like you
They're your uncle they're your brother they're your cousin but you sit back and say nothing
What you're scared how many more kiss gotta get filled with lead
The killer was the same color but he offed somebody's baby brother

What stares back at you when you look into the mirror
Do you recognize the person you've become

We represent the 13% of the U.S. population but we represent like half the homicides since like '75
Killing our own kind at a faster rate than every other race and that's a disgrace
We can stop police brutality but these problems ain't going away
A gangster and you boast and brag
Killing people over territory and flags you're sad
Robbing grandmommas you're a bonified dimwit
it's like you're on a mission to be another statistic

What stares back at you when you look in the mirror
Do you recognize the person you've become
This doesn't have to be your destiny you can find your way out
Find your way out
What stares back at you when you look into the mirror

You are not real you're a coward
Most of our problems are in house but you're silent like a mouse and you want to cry yet pout
It is too easy to point the finger it's convenient to point the blame but it takes courage to realize what you ain't about
Unfortunately that's something that you ain't got

You're fake
Your activism is not the truth
it's nothing more than an ego boost
You're fake
So you can shoot and pout
So you go ahead take the easy route

What stares back at you when you look into the mirror
Do you recognize the person you've become
The person you've become
This doesn't have to be your destiny you can find your way out
Find your way out
What stares back at you when you look into the mirror

12. Addict

The man that you see before you
May not be the one that you knew
Freed from the weight of his youth
Should worry if I chose to stay confused

Take it from me
Change is on the move and it ain't free
You take whatever life gives and hit the streets
Grinding day by day just to compete
Take it from me
May not desire everything I see
Impossible to predict to a T
My expectations change from week to week

The man that you see before you
Free from his old world view
Embraced change and let it renew
Even when he couldn't face the truth
I'm been working on it
I've been bad I've been wrong I've been a freaking addict
Not to drugs but to the wrong habits I've talked about it
I've been lost I've been gone no more trust it's too long
Since I loved or been home yeah

Take it from me
Change is on the move and it ain't free
You take whatever life gives and hit the streets
Grinding day by day just to compete
Take it from me
May not desire everything I see
Impossible to predict to a T
My expectations change from week to week

I try
I try
I try
I try

Take it from me
Change is on the move and it ain't free
You take whatever life gives and hit the streets
Grinding day by day just to compete
Take it from me
May not desire everything I see
Impossible to predict to a T
My expectations change from week to week

13. Democracy Sucks

[feat. Lauren Babic of Red Handed Denial]

Loyalty is conditional
You're misinformed
So they tug at your heartstrings to mask what's underneath

Emotions are running high so it's like nobody notice a lie
Using false security as a bribe but have you ever thought as to why
These people will go around hoping that you frown at the idea like the sky's falling down
Wow
They use it to control you like they package up and own you
Tap your fears and act like this but ask yourself is this really a path you feel
Selling your soul cheaper than a happy meal
it's sad to hear when you cling to a bad idea

Speak in lies
Deny and imply that we could not get by without you
Rule through fear
it's clear that you're here to lead sheep to shear their lives away

Entrust our faith to those who bend the knee to the underlying hate that you helped create
So step back the picture is bigger than you think
How can you open your eyes when you're blinded by a catch phrase

Worth the time or worth the fine I work to find solutions but it hurts when my family falls for the okie doke
Kind of like Obama we saw and we know he choked
Know what he wrote bro
Said he was gonna bring the troops home
Got in and started singing a new song but he's cool so they thinking he can't do wrong
Bomb more countries than Bush but I got a new phone

Speak in lies
Deny and imply that we could not get by without you
Rule through fear
it's clear that you're here to lead sheep to shear their lives away

Speak in lies
Deny and imply that we could not get by without you
Rule through fear
it's clear that you're here to lead sheep to shear their lives away

We know what it is giving you the biz I'm saying you ain't gotta lie to me
We know you got it wrong but you're not alone I'm not asking for apologies
I'd much rather you in a battle mood waking up smelling the coffee
I'm just stressing to spread the message before they turn around and just off me

Speak in lies
Deny and imply that we could not get by without you
Rule through fear
it's clear that you're here to lead sheep to shear their lives away

Speak in lies
Deny and imply that we could not get by without you
Rule through fear
it's clear that you're here to lead sheep to shear their lives away

14. Utopias Don't Exist

The life you're living just might be different
Despite what you might be thinking, your life decisions
Could fight, but the night just thickens and knifes your vision
I might be the light you're missing. My mic, you listen

First off: need to act, man
Take everything that you learned from this Liberal Media and toss it in the trash can
That garbage is probably why you try to make everybody feel sorry for the parties involved and it's whack man

Most politicians have one mission: Say or do whatever it takes to keep your attention
I guess you think the truth is so boring. They get away with telling lies and you're dumb enough to vote for 'em
Left, right, republicans, or democrats. Red or blue, different sides on the same crap
Black, white, gay, straight, need to pipe down
Nobody's obligated to accept your lifestyle

Stop thinking that the government should force it

They say that you should listen twice as much as you talk
You have two eyes so you should watch where you walk
'Cause everything ain't what it seems. Sometimes it's far from truth
You can mislead them but I see right through you

It's time to wake up [2x]

Another hashtag, now blacks mad
'Cause the cops shot another brother that fast, and yea, that's sad
Here come the marches on Washington. Fueled with fire like arsonist, it's hard to get, and I'm just sick, I'm tired of it
Get up in arms when a cop do it, but don't even bat an eye when one of US shooting and it's foolishness
What you're doing is proving that, not even our own kind truly value a life that's black

How can we expect, others to show black folks respect
When we act blind to all of this. Accountability is what we lack
Meanwhile the politician keep benefitting
Taking sides, while they just play the victim
Well I'm black, so I'll tell you like this.
Stop fronting like you're pissed when you're inconsistent.

I criticize y'all hoping that you rise, dog

Slander and lies, rationalize, the fact they try to dismantle guys with animal eyes
Rats, snakes, on the prowl over emphasis on differences.
The difference is, to co-exist is the heart of existence
Ain't nothing wrong with being on different sides of the same subject. Think before you criticize
Minimize conflict by understanding that you ain't gone understand all of what is different from you following

15. Let Me Live

Tapping out or giving in is not an option for me
People yap run their trap as haters try to torch me
But I still keep it real and own up to my L's
So you'll be waiting forever if you're hoping I fail

What you know about looking opposition in their face
Wishing you'd collapse but you just put them in their place
But holy crap just let me live
But if you block my path you know what time it is

Never holding back on my way to the top
No
Nothing's gonna stand in my path
Stand in my path
The grind don't end when the goal is in sight
My minds made up and I'm ready to fight

What's the point of going out your way just so you can snake me
I've done nothing to you but you make efforts just to play me
But lately I've been thinking what the hell have you been drinking
If you're nagging on me expect a reaction from me

Let me live
Is that too much to ask just let me live
Come on and let me live
I'm just saying dog just let me live

Never holding back on my way to the top
No
Nothing's gonna stand in my path
The grind don't end when the goal is in sight
My minds made up and I'm ready to fight

I'm no longer violent but I'll take it to fists and cuffs
So think it over if you decide to hit me up
I may be peaceful but I don't need a pick me up
So use aggression on me boss you may just get your block knocked off

I'm telling you that this ain't for fun
Why the heck would you hate on him understand that I ain't the one
I'm not saying this to be cynical
Just saying you can get it fool if it happens to get physical

What's the point of going out your way just so you can snake me
I've done nothing to you but you make efforts just to play me
But lately I've been thinking what the hell have you been drinking
If you're nagging on me expect a reaction from me

Let me live
Is that too much to ask just let me live
Come on and let me live
I'm just saying dog just let me live

Never holding back on my way to the top
No
Nothing's gonna stand in my path
The grind don't end when the goal is in sight
My minds made up and I'm ready to fight

16. Snap

A little crazy and I must face it
I'm on the brink of insanity
And I'm in neck deep they tried to tell me
But they're just wasting their breath 'cause I know what I felt
And I'm thinking that if you're not you're not living
No need for saving him because we all got a little craziness and you may not want to admit any of it
But I wouldn't want to be around me if I so happen to snap

I'm not in a fragile state of mind
I just don't run away 'cause it's a waste of my time
I'm not in a fragile state of mind
And I might get a bad rap if I so happen to snap

With all that is happens around me idiocy surrounds me
And I don't need no consultation I just don't shy away from confrontation

You came at me with unwarranted nonsense what am I to do
If one of us has to leave tonight with an L bro then it might be you
I think I've possibly already told you that I'm not the one
So back back give me fifty feet if you think conflicts not fun

I'm not in a fragile state of mind
I just don't run away 'cause it's a waste of my time
I'm not in a fragile state of mind
And I might get a bad rap if I so happen to snap

I'm not in a fragile state of mind
I just don't run away 'cause it's a waste of my time
I'm not in a fragile state of mind
And I might get a bad rap if I so happen to snap

If you could see into my mind
You would know what I've endured
From the brink of my demise
I have come from further shores

I'm not in a fragile state of mind
I just don't run away 'cause it's a waste of my time
I'm not in a fragile state of mind
And I might get a bad rap if I so happen to snap

I'm not in a fragile state of mind
I just don't run away 'cause it's a waste of my time
I'm not in a fragile state of mind
And I might get a bad rap if I so happen to snap

17. Stathiest

When I lay back and rest my eyes i can't help but notice
And it really blows my mind sometimes it's hard to focus
it's their pulpit and they worship
it's really funny how they be talking down on the religious a hypocrite when they run their mouth
The one they worship is far more dangerous with a bigger body count and it's far more famous

Go to the altar to your vote
There's no moral ground
Beg to your masters to your gods
They won't hear you

A similar level and you are not special 'cause you don't believe in Christ
May not be Muslim or Buddhist or Hindu or Jewish those just aren't the ones you like
I don't mean no disrespect
You love the law books and yes you cling to text
Just not the Bible and it's obvious that hypocritical is what you get man walking contradiction

Go to the altar to your vote
There's no moral ground
Beg to your masters to your gods
They won't hear you

Statheist
Statheist
Statheist
Statheist

I know some of you probably mad at me you try to legislate morality but you are a fraud
Stop acting like you don't believe in God
Say it we know the truth
Saying hail Mary's at the voter booth
You are a fraud
Stop acting like you don't believe in God
Acting like they made us
Politicians are your saviors
You are a fraud
Stop acting like you don't believe in God

Go to the altar to your vote
There's no moral ground
Beg to your masters to your gods
They won't hear you

Statheist
Statheist
Statheist

You are a fraud
Stop acting like you don't believe in God

18. Set Us Free

Sometimes it's difficult to put yourself out there for the criticism but it is what it is

Struggle comes with a lesson I can't be the only one
Questioning my heart and what the times will say about it
Carry on
The Word is in us if we'll just speak as though we have what we cannot reach keep your heart on it

It seems like more than ever when I say man's not who I serve
A target's put on my back but what You've endured has got nothing on that
My life is steady on the line for that I will not apologize
I still stand in defeat when it's all said and done I can't take those with me

If no one had faith in me
I'd still believe in You
The world can't set us free
(Set us free)
They'll chain us hands and feet
(The world can set us free)
Take all that I am
(The world can't set us free)
Consume me renew me







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