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Intro:
Mic check. Listen up!

Spoken Word:
I'm tired of this system...
But not just the side of this system that mistreats me because of the color

of poverty
Drug addicted moms and alcoholic daddies
Abused in the system while still driving caddies gladly
We're able to find joy in the midst of calamity but

walk around with
A chip on your shoulders
Tryna get lemon, couldn't get battered
You know it, where I come from
73 will get me from home to college

political agenda
Remember that, I am more
Professor Duncan
Community college cap
A Psych major, I might wager
The rest of my life for a purpose
Do I make you

to sort out what the flashbacks mean
System overload

My mind shut off in an effort to protect me
Bits and pieces of the scene kept me up at night with all

Stick with college it looked promising
The system had a lot of benefitting if you spotted it
But realistically I know I ain't getting no doctorate
My

the skin of some of you 
Well let’s talk about YOUR privilege, cause you got quite a few
Minorities going to colleges, got plenty of scholarships
But when

community, our eyes upon the steeple
I once believed in God until my life had made me question
Everything that stood before me always had me second guessin
I

a Porsche we can drive//
My country got these issues, and we refuse to acknowledge them
Killers in our classrooms, in our schools and the colleges 
Shot while

community, our eyes upon the steeple
I once believed in God until my life had made me question
Everything that stood before me always had me second guessin'
I

the sheets let me drop some knowledge
About computer science, let me take you to college
The following are bars a bout some nerdy code
That'll make your head

basic
Fuck that fake shit
This is greatness in the present fuck that waiting
I've been on a mission ever since my mommas basement a victim to the system

white college?
Still you ain't valid for most of them white collars
Southeast Asian dark cousins
Drive down the streets, police radio buzzin
Gaslighted

of balling and getting a college offer 
To be 1 of 12 on a roster or bully beats like the carters
Or ending up in the system succumbing to low ambitions

Everybody yoga
Everybody meditate until the class over
Everybody plants a community garden
Everybody talks to a therapist often
Everybody got teachers that

outside this garbage
Impoverish existence of mediocre promise,
A pigeon holed kid with apartment complex
And a college degree in a dying market
No community

On positions of power and squash our voice
I'd rather fight for my community, that's my choice
Good or bad, win or lose
Let's not get it confused
Between what's

Things have changed said Mr. Wallace, not a single thing bout rap modest
Guess we doing what the system taught us
Work for you, ain't bout community go

Vivisections performed by Gillette
And Unilever walmart moves in to monopolize
And rape communities
Nestle is responsible for third-world deaths
From baby bottle

listen to adult contemporary music, cranked up to 3
In my 3 level attached suburban townhouse with a community pool and rec room 495 PI year 1 through 3,

white college campuses aren't the same
Redline our houses and ruin communities
Stereotype- all with impunity
Media cycles it isn't their fault
But nothing

This life can get serious
More than shell casings

Casket or college life
Tell me what you chasing

You claim that you bout it
Then let's get

of babel
You know the county my alma mater
I go to your college I got the Cal and the balaclava
My homie is out on the run and running through Colorado