Mos Def (yasiin Bey) - Fake Bonanza lyrics

[Verse 1] Hip hop, modern time, flossy and raw so self-absorbed, immature I can't remember being this bored Fake bonanza, there come real wars Bullets burn through the candy on the driver side door Long investigations and no firm lead, billion dollar flow And black life is still cheap Your rent skyrockets and job prospects plummet Ten murders, ten days, this summer Talk about today's mathematics, a eighth, an O, a key And the caliber on your ratchet The inmate number, the centerfolds measurements As close as a cold cell comes to some tenderness I heard them say it was all about the Benjamins I don't believe it now, didn't believe it then, f** wutcha heard You believe wutcha want, the truth is what it is, it be what it been Get rich, shorty just tryna live Don't believe in heaven and ain't tryna get in And hell is everyday, f** the world anyway Potion and sips, spark up a clip, FADE AWAY! [Hook] The low lights, tree top heights Be careful how you move the traps are covered in the lights Landmines be disguised as welcome signs I'll repeat it so you ain't got to press rewind The landmines be disguised as welcome signs Black fresh from Iraq, a wild look in his eyes, missing part of his arm What the f** is your problem!? Ohh lord! Fake Bonanza! [Verse 2] Gladiator, circus world Glamour, p**y, pimp, ho good to serve this world Paranoid, if she trick a n***a nervous world Shatanic natural order in reversal world The eye, but no God, zero circle world The blow-a turtle world, smoke from the purple world The k**er murder world, hamburger murder world Open twenty-four hours, all about them dollars Pretty poison the pork sausage Cold coffee and more coffers, fake bonanza [2x] Huh? What? I don't understand ya! What they talking bout save they soul, ohh lord, save they soul! Help them reach the goal, peace! [4x] You know, peace [3x], boogieman! Don't be scared Ohh lord, save they soul [2x] Ohh lord, save my soul [2x] Please Boogieman [Outro] Woke up this morning with my, my state don't fade and said I Had the baddest feeling, maybe you stayed on my mind, said I [2x] Woke up this morning in my, my state, I'm dreaming, dreaming Ain't nothing even.....dreaming, praying, keeping Woke up this morning and my mind stayed on freedom Woke up this demon that keep staying on my mind Said, woke up this morning and my mind stayed on freedom It makes no difference what people say, AHHHHHHHHH