Word up
I got a couple of fans, they hold me down
I drop a monumental album every couple of months
But I’ma keep it real
There's lessons my school teachers ain’t never teach
I thought that being the best alive would have some better reach
I know my follicles died so I don’t look the part
Far as that marketing that people really took to heart
But I’m a work of art
Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe they don’t stock my CD at your local mart
I get a buzz when a rhyme begin to germinate
And documented astronomical conversion rate
You’d think that I could take that to a label
And have em put whatever on the table
You would be wrong
They tell me I don’t belong because I always wanna write about love and life and right and wrong
And ain't it dawn on me good songs ain't the way to get on at all
Nah
I get it whatever liquor whatever car
Be sure to say the word “nigger” every other bar
Majors are hardly about sales people
They don’t want artists they want salespeople
So they can tell you what your culture is
‘Cause you do not protect your kids
So now they convinced women are just for sex
They're just objects
You lame if you not from the 'jects
But lemme object
I know that got dark dark fast
But take it from me, mass media got a dark past
Cue instagram to cultivate a whole generation
Of kids that’s never moved to read about the movie Birth of a Nation
Boy Sand read all the time
We can’t give him no shine
He ain’t even online
He gon have these people using they minds
He gon have these people losing their minds
If it was really about pushing what people like when they heard it
It'd be mics getting murdered instead of Pop Smoke
It’s not a joke
And that’s just one example of a lotta folks
It’s more than kinda gross
If you can’t see for the forest for the trees
You’re probably someone that believes that advertising doesn’t work on you
Which is the reason advertising works on you
It’s so ill
To not get any play not 'cause they think that folks won’t like it, they’re just certain that they will
Why?
Expose the world to music that it’s proven fewer people gon’ like?
The numbers don’t lie
That’s bizarre Rapcaviar
It time to straighten up and act right Rap Life
If it was up to y’all I never even woulda heard of Illadelph Halflife
But no sweat
Hit the email list I’ll keep you posted
The releases and the touring yo the whole sched
Boy Sand be the paragon
The evidence that’s it’s not a sprint it’s a marathon
And ain’t no burden yo cause word to God I’ll be here when they are long gone