I am he who shan't be named, unspoken, most-ducked
black male Calamity Jane, but not gross enough to have grossed enough
to post up with the most deluxe frozen stuff
but still known for going nuts on microphones and giving the Holy Ghost to sluts
niggas that's really on the hood don't claim it lightly
'cuz when it's on like that you still have family banging nightly
and I was never on, but growing up I had to know enough
to decode the totem pole and bro, you are low as fuck
many dudes got female details when you're close up
you ain't a G, I know your folks--you froze up when toast bucked
too scared to even run, but mad peeps believe in son,
I cashed in my reality check, we're all in need of one
seeing unbelievably dumb shit jump off for no reason
ain't even wait for evening to come,
that's broad day, Stockton Boulevard and Broadway, all day
raw like bleeding gums, where the guns sound like beating drums
America, we eat our young, snatch their feet, delete the rungs,
from the ladders we climbed, tamper with minds, TV's a drug
media, we eat it up, it teaches us to not think enough
to fail to recognize the real 'cause feeling it can heal us up
cause healthy satisfied people can see through standard lies
of how to be happy you have to buy whatever's advertised
my calcifying passion cries out for lost motion
thoughts open, awesome portents of holocaust omens,
costs and quotients, gains and payoffs, paid vacay to layoffs,
been shittin' since Mitch Richmond was in the playoffs
I'm like Damarcus Cousins' smaller more talkative cousin
'cause I got all offensive options so I ball like it's nothin'
all-star with my nuts-in your face while I'm dunking
like 23 in '92, not even barking, just shrugging
but even if I'm always fronted on like Rod Strickland,
I'll still go coast to coast, rise and posterize your big man
The People's Revolution is the rawest most outlandish clique
CDC quarantines my ciphers screaming "that man is sick!"
credits
from Heir(EP),
released November 18, 2014
J. Jordan (beat)
J. Beasley (lyrics)
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