[Verse 1:]

There’s a deadly epidemic and it starts with the mind state

Manipulation over heads like a spy plane

I'm trying to walk straight while the world turning sideways

Greed and self decay shooting up at a high rate

Yo, the whole country coated in fentanyl

Consumed by green and white lines like a tennis ball

Pharma making orphans serving these chemicals

Schools poor but no money going to them at all

Standing on shaky ground, while our leaders let us fall (WHY?)

That’s the million dollar question that’s never solved

Sick from fast food and it’s spiking cholestеrol

Kids committing mass shootings, we gotta do better y'all

Spitting mad jеwels all I got in my repertoire

I'm tryna tap into the depths of my reservoir

It’s getting bad and it was bad already

Young men circling the drain say they feeling sad and empty

The middle class path harder to attain

People slaughtered just for gain, we became a bunch of Machiavellis

Brainwashed gazing at your telly

Scroll addicts captivated by all of the hatred that they selling

And yeah I’m talking politically

I seen the mind virus move across my vicinity

We in an age where they want us to get enraged

And take that Twitter feed literally

It's making me jittery

[Bridge:]

I'm stuck

No doubt

And I can't get out (of this lifestyle)

[Verse 2:]

The love is missing in the hood it’s like a state of war

Living in danger and despair from the day your born

The lack of mentors, the parents and the neighbors poor

Traumatized, raising more with a double digit ACES score

You gotta thank the Lord if you made it out

I try to pay it forward because too many days I stayed without

And looking back got me breaking down

Seeing conditions then were just the same as now

Sneakers hanging over electric wires

Abandoned buildings with copper stolen, they set on fire

Seeming like we been misled believing elected liars

Jobs are fleeting, laying off and rejecting hires

People are tired

The crab mind spreading like an infectious virus

The flatliners and death defiers define us

Population declining, there's more sellers than buyers

You know it’s bad when you out of the scope of the gentrifiers

They don’t wanna unify us, they’d rather divide us

They monteitzing loss of life like a mammon of violence

That’s a game I won’t play as a man of defiance

Now I’m revolving like Rae understanding the science

There’s a lack of guidance growing through uncertain times

And no man is safe from the surging crime

Like Nas dropped the album of the year the same night his home was burglarized

Thank God it was only merchandise

You gotta walk with observant eyes

Body language talks way before you verbalize

And behind every corner a serpent lies

Preying on your demise

That’s why I’m dropping seeds in my rhymes hoping they fertilize

We need a ray of hope and its part of the perception

Breaking through deception, you gotta harvest a growing mentality

Knowing it’s bad but it doesn’t have to be

It doesn't have to be

Nah