Armageddon

I'm really getting tired
I'm really getting tired
Ayo
They say violence ain't the answer
Well how you think our people overthrew the slave masters
And escaped being captive
Down in shackles
And I just spoke to my grandpapa
Think he dying but nobody told me that he had cancer
And my uncle too
I'm thinking in my own head what to do
Father left us without a word
But he was comfortable
So sorry to you heavenly father I can't look up to you
What happens when the bad example of a man is haunting you
Mix it with these lynchings and these CNN articles
This a white mans planet I am just a particle
Another pawn on the chessboard
In reality we small
But we wanna be big
So we ride the latest trend
Flexing for the whole globe to see
They say I'm writing poetry in motion
But I call it motion poetry
I'm the reason why they say ya body's made of water mostly cause you could see the flow in me
Soon as you look into my eyes pupils focused on what's on the other side
Of the wall ya lil president built
Crooked cops tryna tilt
Me off the edge of this mountain that I'm sitting on
While they listen on to knowledge
Over beats I'm spitting on and they buy it when I publish
Man they love it
But it's funny cause my hair nappier than Frederick Douglas
Man they love it
What a conundrum they love it
You would think they would wanna kill me but they feel me

If this is Armageddon then I'm getting out this country
Need some reparations not just talking bout the money
Used to be pharaohs then they turned us into mummies
I ain't got no property you took it all from me
I don't know what's going on in my mind
All I see is Armageddon when I walk outside
Wanna go and get a job but you might get declined
Wanna go out for a jog you might lose your life
Dear Ameri k k k a can you hear my cries
You don't think my life matters but you love when I rhyme
Don't make my name a hashtag if I'm shot from behind

You don't know what it's like, tryna make ends meet
I was running low on bread, I had to make ends meet
Tryna make a couple millions, tryna make M's meet
Pass em on to my children, I'll never be a deadbeat
I kill the track, lay it down, then I play the dead beat
They killed the man, 8 minutes 46 seconds that his head was under the knee
Another brother found he was hangin up from a tree
Black lives matter, yeah you said it for bout a week
You saw they painted a street
Then it was back to the beach
And while you sailing the sea
Another black man bleeds
She was 12
Threw her body in the river then them cowards fleed the scene
Do you see
What I'm sayin now
Start protesting stop the praying now
The prayers of the ignorant ain't never answered
If you wanna be part of the show you can't be acting like a background dancer
If you got a problem wit violence
Stand up and tell the masses
And the massas
Who, wanna see me dying faster on the TV
All I see see mommas crying right after
They just lost they son, to another bastard
Carbon copy we get killed
Then it sparks a lotta chatter not a action
They say that we burning buildings down in a appalling fashion
Oh did you forget what happened way back when in 1921?
Black Wall Street was burned
Whole city going to the curb going up in flames and ashes
Why they killing us for sport
Do it year-round got they season passes
Wear em on they shirts and they call em badges

If this is Armageddon then I'm getting out this country
Need some reparations not just talking bout the money
Used to be pharaohs then they turned us into mummies
I ain't got no property you took it all from me
I don't know what's going on in my mind
All I see is Armageddon when I walk outside
Wanna go and get a job but you might get declined
Wanna go out for a jog you might lose your life
Dear Ameri k k k a can you hear my cries
You don't think my life matters but you love when I rhyme
Don't make my name a hashtag if I'm shot from behind