Hook: They want me 9 to five clockin All my thoughts robotic Paper as my profit Pourin up the toxic They want me believing what they tell me They want me buying what they selling Get behind me Satan Kuz I ain't f**in with u Devils Verse 1: This a virus to the system k** it But the remedy to illness Healin Anyone that wanna hear this Feel this In your heart and in your spirit Fearless Kuz fear is just deception Clearly We've all f**ed up perception When Nearly All have misconceptions On what this life about f** all that plottin on commas and dollars I'm only concerned with my daughter and truth We lined up for slaughter and label it progress I Keep it one hunnet and bring u this proof When you was on your way to college I was on my way up the water And The Crazy thing about all this Is That I still came out a scholar I'm just Rollin up my lil marijuana Tread through Sodom Eli persona Everyone be livin off this garbage I'm over here just tryna end the saga See the squad don't do it for the money Cookin up this food for the hungry Flow feel like a tsunami Verses on swami Mouth like rowdy Roddy Piper All that blood on those diamonds Murder for hire so you can be shinin Build an empires over bodies that's dyin
While history's writer go to the highest buyer 1000 magazines Almost 2000 tv stations All pushin the same thing And all Owned by 6 corporations Hook* Verse 2: Beaten and battered Beyond what the normal mind fathoms Swear I refuse to move my standards Or believe these t.v. channels The valley of d**h consumin With hopes to leave us ruined See We rejoice in what we think is winnin Because they've disguise losin So the top becomes the bottom That shot and spot of stardom Is now the only thing that matters As your heart begins ta harden And fulfillness just seems farther With every object that's boughten And you feel your soul is rotting But you keep buildin your own coffin Got that thang line with Egyptian cotton Dipped in gold and bronzes But all those riches harnessed Will go and meet eternity tarnished Everybody say that they eatin But I can see em all starvin Only reason that they breathin Is for these f**in chains and these garments And the only thing that they thinkin is Please look how I'm garnished Please Give me the glory As I BALL and flaunt this profit Don't ever mention its nonsense that I spent a house on these watches While there's kids all in my hood that still go to bed at night starvin Hook*