Lupe Fiasco’s amazing personification of societal evil:
One of the oldest most ancientest things
Speak every single language on the planet, nah mean?
I am the American dream, the rape of Africa, the undying machine
The overpriced medicine, the murderous regime
The tough guy’s front, and the one behind the scenesI am the blood of this city; its gas, water and electricity
I’m its gym and its math and its history
The gun shots in the class
And you can’t pass if you missing GI taught them better than that
I taught them aim for the head, and hope they never come back
I’m glad your daddy’s gone baby, hope he never comes back
I hope he’s with you mother with my hustlers high in my trapI hope you die in this trash; I can’t help it
All I hear when you crying is laughs
I’m sure somebody find you tied in this bag
Behind the hospital, little baby crack addicts hadThen maybe you can grow up and be a stripper
A welfare receiving, prostituting gold digger
You can watch on TV how they should properly depict ya
The river shall flow with liquor, quench your thirst on my elixirsI am the safe haven for the rebel run away, and the resistor
The trusted misleader, the number one defender
And from a throne of their bones, I rule
These fools are my fuel so I make them coolBaptize ‘em in the water out of Scarface pool
And feed em from the table that held the Corleone’s Food
If you die tell em that you played my game
I hope your bullet holes become mouths that say my name
Cause I’m the {*gunshot*}
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