Doom

I grip the mic like it's been saving my life
These media likes been feeling like the stadium lights
And I'm nervous. Cuz on the surface people say I'm like EM
With just a little dicky tryna run away with my pen
The truth is... I really think I could be better than them
Problem is I'll never do it without cheddar and friends
I don't mean I need a video with chicks and a Benz
I need the privilege to focus while still meeting the ends
I'm talking Logic shacking up in the basement with Big Lenbo
Power levels climbing my rhyming improves ten fold
Drop with perfect timing divined by this fine pencil
Everybody's lining up kindly at my tempo

I don't really want the money
I don't really want the fame
Just been seeing lots of hungry kids and tryna make a change
Never been about the dollars
Always found it kinda strange
How a couple million moisturize and billions got the mange

Families barely scraping by or forced to go on welfare
Way too many laughing when I mention mental healthcare
Homeless people dying in the street and no one helps yeah
Putting on a mask could save a life and you're too selfish
It's been killing my hope
I don't know if I'm depressed or at the end of my rope
It's been so long, my symptoms start to feel like a trope
I'm in this glass box smiling like my brain was the pope
I'm amazing I hope ya'll spread the name for the ghost
How I just get up on the beat and flood the street with my flows
I drop a banger live without needing to read a line
And watch these other rappers blunder then just fix it in post
I'm on the tip of my toes, leering at all you busters
Dodging fear I summon courage and bravery what I muster
For the strength to tell these whack emcees to
Catch up, but hold the mustard
Bring the cream? I got the custard
Got my groupies feeling flustered
Got me talkin bout
I'mma float around the island while I try to catch a wave now
Dreaming bout the day my deepest thoughts will get my paid. How
Many people gotta die before I see some change. Wow
Planet really burning bro I gotta let this pain out
It doesn't matter what I say? That's true
I just know we need to find a better way. I do
Native bodies never even got a grave. Now you
Say the system is preferring our race
Come on. We both know that it's wrong
I done seen it for too long. How the demons in blue come
For the people who just mad they get killed in their own homes
Empire storm trooping and police are the clones

I don't really want the money
I don't really want the fame
Just been seeing lots of hungry kids and tryna make a change
Never been about the dollars
Always found it kinda strange
How a couple million moisturize and billions got the mange

Yeah baby, swear that I'm not crazy feel like I am lately ooo
Hey baby, swear that I'm not crazy feel like I am lately ooo, yuh