The Complex - Intellectual

[Intro]

Floating all night

Floating, floating, floating all night

Statik Selektah

[Verse 1: Pharoahe Monch]

Say left, huh, left-right, left-right

Wing hates exposure, but love a defeatist to death, right?

Beat the defeatist morality 'til there's no feet left, right?

Teach us the killer mentality to shove us some tech

We are just another formality of government debt

But Lord, what's worse is even after I served

After I followed the scriptures and honored the word

After I fought for America, got what I deserved, I

Came back to racism, absurd

You look down on me while I pick the garbage, you enjoy your melanin curb

I'm like, "what's your thoughts, son, your bird's eye, bitch?

You probably thinkin' I'm itchin' for my post-traumatic, huh?

Is it because I'm twitchin' from the most dramatic shit I've ever seen?"

My commanding officer yelling at the pregnant woman to drink from the latrine

Little baby body layin' face down on the ravine

I thought I'd be an action figure

Kung-fu grip, and that ain't even the half, my nigga

When I needed medication the doctor wouldn't respond

Even when I told him I was the very first to respond

He said..

[Chorus: Pharoahe Monch]

Step left-right, left-right

Right, left-right, left-right

[Verse 2: Reks]

Complexities of our complexion

Different shape and size, look in the eyes, see a reflection

Of what we feed mind, and body get chose

Your alkaline skin glows

Pharmaceutical companies pimp us like hoes

With quick fixes mixin' the elixirs, too addictive

Momma's prescription is the side effect, small printin'

It's all business, industrial, revolution music

You listen to it to just numb the reality

Desentizized mentality, tablet to tongue to have relief

The doctor's bedside manner make nana have belief

Soilin' the soil tap water, we need to boil no seeds

It's GMO if it grow, it needs to spoil, man-made

Manipulation unpure, it's unnatural

Doctors said it, we say it's factual, watch the ph scale

Don't let them sell you on depression pills and chemo

Lessons from the keynote, speaker on systems, we know

[Chorus: Pharoahe Monch]

Step left-right, left-right

Right, left-right, left-right