[Verse 1:]
First off say peace to Pine Ridge,
Shame at all the damage that the white man wine did:
Ghost Dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year
And all that other crime did.
More peace to the teachers of blind kids,
To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big,
Say, everything's hostile.
Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models,
With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you,
Straight hair, high heels and a handbag.
Crucifixes, racism and a land grab,
Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body, sandbags.
A peace sign and a pants sag,
A money toss 'cause a 9 stripper mad dash,
A friend request following a hashtag.
Now everybody want it like a last laugh,
A Michael Jackson jacket or a Daft mask,
Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class.
Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad,
But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad,
War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat,
'Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac.
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Live from the other side what you see,
A bunch of nonsense on my TV.
Heaven on Earth is what I need,
But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe.
Reporting live from the other side what you hear,
A bunch of nonsense all in my ear.
Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
'Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way.
[Verse 2]
And we marvel at the state of Ottoman,
Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can.
America's a big motherfuckin' garbageman.
If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem,
You say, no, you ain't, and I say, yes, you is,
Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is,
You say, no, they didn't, and I say, yes, they did.
The definition of unnecessary-ness manifested,
Say that we should protest just to get arrested,
That goes against all my hustling ethics,
A bunch of jail niggas say, it's highly ineffective,
Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip,
Insert Baldwin to similar the separate.
To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit,
Or finding really fast Internet to have some sex with.
It's all one song short of a set list,
Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast,
Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish.
So absurd, word to Chief Bone Necklace,
Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino,
A whole culture boiled down to giving you pokeno,
I go as left as a heart in the chest,
'Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death.
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[Verse 3:]
An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler,
Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar.
South Central an example of God's gifts,
So shout to all the mothers raising babies in SPA 6,
The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns,
Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound.
It's parts of Manila like the video for «Thriller»,
But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa,
If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla.
Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia,
Cash rules everything around these niggas,
As classrooms everywhere around me wither,
Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers,
The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle.
Of the extremes of America's dream,
Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, now.
[Hook]