Turmoil creeping in the mind state The media been trying to start a race war
while the rich still unaffected by the crime rate
I wait, citizens are in the streets that made a change
But none of us agree on what to change to I'm sitting here just plotting on a move
But the fam said they praying that this industry don't change you
And I ain't finna compromise nothin' People said I'm switching sides but y 'all
frontin' I mean y 'all don't really know my heart
Just more work and I'ma do this thing with all my might
Boy, this all my life You don't like the things I'm saying in my
music You don't have to listen when I'm speaking
I never promised to do one thing that you can't expect from me
I guarantee you I'ma always keep it honest
Yeah, anti -tribe, you know we're pinning upon it
Yeah, true winner, favorite, single opponent Yeah, but who's my competition?
Bro, my brother's jealous, sickest guy An enemy compared with me to another
When I see the accomplishments and accolades I get jaded but I keep it hidden
from my face Cause I don't want the world to see me as
I really am A self -righteous hypocrite that's always
doing shade, yeah
On January 1st of every year I open up my Bible
Then I always say I'm gonna talk to God more
On January 5th I hit the Vatican And then I start to question everything that
I believe in God for But January 10th I put it down and running
down I'm down and now convinced that I am falling
out of grace now And I remember when you showed me your face
The world is hungry for your love and I've been running in place
And now I'm asking for your help to get me back in this race
And I'ma speak my testimony just to give them a taste
Of what your freedom really like before I hear it's too late
Cause I got homies dropping dead from all these bullets that they take
And you're the zinging epidemic who can fathom the rate
And all the rappers on the radio stay moving away
And I won't hesitate to call you out when I make it fake
Thank God for future Juicy J and all the rest of you lames
Yeah, if I'd have started making music just so I could get wealthy
I'd have gotten a law school so Donald Trump wouldn't expel me
Then I'd sue the government and most of them would repel me
I'm a Zack Taylor, woke up, I won't do what you tell me
Got a lot of hatred in my heart, I need y 'all to help me
I need you to pray for me, I need you to check me
Cause when I see my sin as God does, it wrecks me
And I need that perspective up in my life to direct me
If racism's dead, why aren't you just segregated?
This the land of the free, believe the world and incarcerated citizens
But the minimum sentence isn't the remnant of the thing
We thought we'd change with the 13th Amendment
Still growing, still moving, stay steady
We go through it, we ain't losing it, y 'all knew it
Don't see the world in the same way I used to
The current state is tumultuous
People say that drowning is actually a really peaceful way to die
It's not difficult to see why
After this shock and hysteria passes
After fluids violently fill your lungs as you struggle to hold your breath
A certain serenity takes hold after you surrender
But you don't die immediately, you become numb
And the longer that you're under, the more you forget what could have been
And you lose perspective of what's about to happen