Systemic Suffering

Mr big rap star what you done with your check?

Brand new whip and chain you know something to flex

Gotta watch out for these youngins cause they'll come for your neck

Cause they ain't never had nothing and they under distress

You can't come around here unless you come with a tech

I come for respect is what you mumbled under your breath

Blink once

Now somehow you got a gun to your chest

And now they dumping and your wishing you could summon a vest

I'm just saying that them diamonds may be dope to you

And maybe you will gain praise from a chosen few

Maybe it'll bring fame and some roses too

Or maybe it was a game you were roped into

I was hoping you would wake up and maybe change a bit

How you ever gonna prevail if you aim to miss

Looks like my people won't change for shit

Still trapped behind chains and whips

That's enough, I'm fed up

Cause something's gotta give

I don't want to wake up

until the chaos ends

Cause we all turn to dust

Hard lesson learned from this

We're all just victims of

Systemic suffering

I see my ancestors praying on their knees

That their loved ones never catch em swaying in the breeze

They'll tell ya to settle down boy you gots to breathe

But it's kinda hard when you're swinging from the poplar trees

 They would stoke the rage

Listen, don't be brave

 Gotta hope and pray

To try and keep the ropes away

The vultures shipped the slaves

The culture stripped away

Let's open the conversation

On how it sculpts today

That's enough, I'm fed up

Cause something's gotta give

I don't want to wake up

until the chaos ends

Cause we all turn to dust

Hard lesson learned from this

We're all just victims of

Systemic suffering

After everything we experienced

We should really be furious

From the war on drugs to crack

And The Tuskegee experiments

I rather stand for the people

And everything we hold dear to us

Than to stand up for an anthem

And keeping up with appearances

Generational wealth is what we groveling to

With all the power from the profit that you garnered from who

But they do everything they can to not acknowledge the proof

You say critical race theory

but I call it the truth

And I ain't Superman

But I'd rather leave it all in the booth

And hope that every emcee after me is following suit

Let's hold our... fathers accountable and stop the abuse

If you can't identify the problem then it's probably you

That's enough, I'm fed up

Cause something's gotta give

I don't want to wake up

until the chaos ends

Cause we all turn to dust

Hard lesson learned from this

We're all just victims of

Systemic suffering