Rat Race

Stick with the team like I'm Kobe
Covered in some silverware, mistook me for a trophy uhuh uh look
Gotta weave then I'm throwing
We ain't all on violence though and I don't do heroics
But I kinda look like spider man
See morals from a mile away
Fly back to the mother land, they might give me the time of day
Spending money quickly cos I can't afford the time it takes
That's why I lie awake, see
She only wants me for a light skin
Told her that ain't my thing
Cos I know I'm valuable
My heritage is priceless
The way I looks a trend
So the activists are typing
But half of them don't mean it, please believe in what you're write
Cos in life we do a lot of laps
Chasing after dreams
And if it's money over everything
There ain't no other meanings
But these dreams that I've been seeing
They've been changing how I'm feeling
I'm tired of the tiredness, money to my demons
And time goes to the man, am I a human being?
Being trapped, with no plans, just grinding til I'm bleeding
If I speak up... they let me know my place
If I act up... then they compare me to an ape
But if you're black in modern day then that's a lucky break
Back then they were cracking whips, all over a small mistakes
So me and all my niggas keep it hush in public space
Cos one minor misdemeanour and
Your colour crack the case
It's the rat race
Running in the ... huh
Judgement in this area, probably my black face
I can't see it clear enough
Going out the back way
We've been crying years you know
Need to get your fact straight

It's the rat race
Running in the... huh
Judgement in this area, probably my black face
I can't see it clear enough
Going out the back way
We've been crying years you know
Need to get your facts straight
"The other day I asked myself
The other day i genuinely asked myself
What is the worst thing I could think of
Thats happened to me in my entire life
And I was in the shower thinking about it
And y'know what I couldnt come to terms I couldnt think of something
Think of an answer
For such a significant questions that I've asked myself about my life
It caused me understand
That the reason I am who I am today is because
I'm just fucking amazing
I'm fucking amazing
You can't-
I am the greatest
It doesn't get much better than this
Like I am the pinnacle
If you could-, if you could ask me could I trade lives with anyone
Nah, nah, I would never do it
I would never do it
Because there's no one out there thats like me
Theres no one, no one that can be like me, absolutely not."

I wanna wear my chains *huh* cos I bought em
But that lady looking strangely like I should be at an auction
And I don't know her parents and I don't know what they taught her
Next she clutched her purse and she started turbo walking *haha*
I have to laugh at all these silly situations
Cos I can't blame myself but there's no way i'm mistaken
In stating my complexion pays a factor in the friction
I mean I could blame the system but it's people lacking wisdom
I'm the meniacle menace
The style yeh it's vintage
Don't you, tarnish my image
I'll get the place spinning
You can in-ject him with venom the powers will kick in
I'll get expensive with the pen, and charge a 10 if it's written
And then I'm back to the colony with crocodile and waloby
Out here for survival so I'll kill before the poverty
Light turned off in class and it resulted in them mocking me
I'll stick to my philosophies and write it off like socrates
In the bible it says to respect your neighbours
If you can't respect my colour, I don't owe you any favours
It's like asking Paris Hilton for an algebra equation
Like please look at the state of her, how she writing statements and
Look what a faker does, when they should be paper chasing
Ain't no debating baby, you can ask me later maybe
Hah like I ain't really got no faith in it
Rings on like a patriot
Tell my man to bake a bit