Strength

To the 3:30 am waking up Paperboys
Hate the job, you’ll hate it more when you ain’t employed
I say strength to you
This one is tailored for, all the night shift nurses at the hospital
Raise their families dressing up open sores
Niggas out of control messing up the neighborhood
Just an average boy till he got made a hood
Bad boys play for good, casket maple-wood
Shame when you bastards gotta face the music
He who pays the piper learns to play the tune
Strength to the guardians that pray for you
And bring a few packages to the prison too
The rat race claimed a few
That Mickey Mouse house trap made for you
To all them young ladies that made the news
Them charges don’t stick like paper glue
Blame a pencil skirt and take a number two
On a person’s worth what it’s coming to
Ey, strength to that dark nigga Mamadou
They burn rubber like Fast & Furious coming soon
Strength to that other dude
Lost a child to substance abuse
The cops don’t got a clue
She was Riri reading from the song book
Did it for the kicks, got off on the wrong foot
This for the onlookers, living for the RTs
Steep fees, can’t get schooled, so pricey
These chicks undressed nude y’all like it
E.G. Less IQ more IG
Strength for my auntie
Who is in a better place RIP
My nigga Shaan ain’t with his family
Strength to Melissa and Tyreeq
Tshidi got pregnant at 19
Stogie T scared for the laaities
Strength to my country
We are now The Empire of Sheep
We’re living in a world that’s upside down
Where the exception has become the rule
Where the margins have become king
The aesthetics of the carnival are all around us
The spinning, the spurning, the entertainment mode
Anything about our world is carnivalesque
And usually it is the fool that brings us to that moment
It’s the fool, the clown, all of these types of characters that bring us into
this upside down world of spinning and entertainment and excess
Listen to this, an army of sheep, led by a lion will always defeat an army of
sheep led by a lion
You’ve been part of the people who think like sheep, act like sheep,
smell like sheep, walk like sheep and we have become just like them