they swear niggas win when they sin the most temporarily be the toast guns and butter on what matters the least watch them overdose let them hang nigga hang by their gold ropes smoke dope until you re comatose no hope for that butter niggas die broke third eye woke poke holes in the american dream run out of options made it easy you can hustle and scheme but one problem they re building private prisons just to house niggas for cheap labor that s why nigga they call it pic it s not a club but you re vip series of numbers that replace your id home of the cowardly freedom ain t free the revolution won t be shown on tv we re too busy watching fake reality you see what goes up comes down dog chase tail go round and round we all hypnotized when we hear the sounds ever seen a clown with a smile that was upside down you see it they swear we going to the promise land they swear they better than the better man we need to get our shit together man probably listening like whatever man they swear niggas be killing when they re just killing waking up every morning hollow no feeling you hear the rap money stack how it touch the ceiling got to tell my nephews they really have a ceiling that s to be honest you ain t getting everything that s promised 40 acres and a mule right work so they can take cost of living tax til your back break no grass but you re still missing the snakes til they slither on you who tired of looking at the middle man the one on top so he devised a plan and who too busy thinking promised land then realize the real lies pinpoint the scam shooting the messenger that s only part of our conditioning they keep trying to tell us but we re not listening you want to hide it put it in a book they want to hide it put it on a corner watch it cook you see it  what goes up comes down dog chase tail go round and round we all hypnotized when we hear the sounds ever seen a clown with a smile that was upside down you see it they swear we going to the promise land they swear they better than the better man we need to get our shit together man probably listening like whatever man1