Can't fall in love with these illusions

How you gonna survive with your mind polluted

Confusion , come fuck with the movement

The undisputed , live & direct

Came to collect , every ounce of respect

Until we resurrect (wake up)

Cause & effect

You causing corruption & interruptions

Cool , we don't follow instructions

Free the underground , Harriet Tubman

Writing more than Fredrick Douglas

While I'm cutting

Through the back field

Life is unreal

You can wait until a bag of chips is 2 dollars

Tryna have my whole hood pop collars

And have scholars

Free education without owing dollars

Safe parks for the toddlers

Growing up without fathers

But yall don't hear me tho

Your eyes stuck on TV & porno

Lost in images

This is for the tribes & villages

Where the surroundings is limited

They don't know about

Sleeping on the couch

Moving from house to house

Having plaque in your mouth

Turning socks inside - out

Didn't sleep in a few days

Bumping illmatic

Ignoring their fear tactics

Mos definitely feeling ecstatic

Super magic , slaying dragons

Who be bragging

About name brand clothes

Only a few people my color

Who own those

Bout to pick every bum

In the street

& having them Mobbin Deep with me

As I'm killing these beats

Survival of the fittest & they still here

Shut the fuck up , i care

We all deal with pain

Young boys selling candy on the train

Or be dancing for a meal

Well - least they don't have

Kill or steal but still

Can't say we free we

Get these shackles off your mind

They tryna tackle when we grind

I'm a philosopher

In disguise

Until we rise