The bars are so rapid it's hard to even break it down like that cause it's PACKED with content or rhymes non stop.
Will have to do it in bits...
"sweating a discrepancy over the Confederate flag, but whenever cops weapons blast you never get mad"
This line for example, he's saying how these racist hypocrites will get mad over someone being against the confederate flag for what it represents but when the cops are murdering and brutalizing black people they never get mad or cause the same uproar. It's calling out their hypocrisy and their mentality, and how they don't give a fukk about black people but their own agendas and warped racist history, that's what they uphold, and that they don't have any compassion to the human suffering of a race of people up to this day. It's very dope how he did that in 1 line, also the rhyming of it is dope if you know about putting rhymes together, particularly with the context of the other bars.
It will take so much time to break down the bars cause it's packed with shyt so as I said I'll do it in bits but...
"meanwhile, the people they're deceivin' to believe in
every citizens part of this fake American dream n' When the fact of
the matter is that they lack love
for the people who this country was built on the backs of,
the brown and black blood, the sound in that mud
was inundatin' the hood, prior to the crack flood
nobody willin' to listen thats why we still in the system, greedy imperial visions consistent buildin' up prisons
"See thats a mistake man. Dont you know Americas a great land,
Nobody offers you freedom like they can," Wait man,
are we talkin' bout the same great man- who murdered the Indians made the Africans slaves and,
persecuted the planet soon as he left the cave and,
let his hate span, fool, get outta my face man
police academy puttin bullets in our anatomy, savage brutality's while elastic's gassin' their salary,
a different tragedy, sunday through saturday and sad as we rally anothers happenin', scary pastors are mad at me
See but i gotta be who i gotta be
yall are sleep-in a odyssey of hallucinogenic Christian theology
obviously concocted in privacy,
cuz a lotta these lyin' scholars be subscribin' to rotten policies"
So this is saying they are deceiving the people, making them believe in an all inclusive American dream which isn't the reality for many people, specifically ethnic minorities in America. And they have proved time and time again they lack love or compassion for the people who built the country, whether it was through slavery or the previous original inhabitants of the country. The people of African heritage and the American Indians too, not to mention they have fukked over other racial groups too. They've been fukking with people even prior to the crack flood that they orchestrated in the first place to destabilise and destroy the communities. Then he goes on to say nobody is willing to listen to the truth (in mass numbers) and that's why people are still stuck in the corrupt system with such atrocities still going on. The powers that be have greedy visions of building up prisons, making money from the prisons and capitalizing and exploiting on the institutionally racist system. Then he changes to the perspective of a typical brainwashed American apologist, copping pleas saying what he's saying is a mistake and America is a "great land" and nobody offers you freedom like they can and then K brings it back, like HOLD UP, you mean the same America who murdered and committed genocide on the Indians and made Africans slaves for centuries? And has been persecuting people and committing crimes ever since they left the caves, and let their hate span all over the world, through invasions and conquering of other countries and even continents far away, for instance when you look at something historically like the British Empire and what they did, or even the Romans, or America itself and what they've done which is a vast history of racial and otherwise atrocities. So he's saying get out of my face with that bullshyt, cause he's not buying it cause he knows the actuality and the history. Then he's saying how the police are putting bullets in us, with savage brutality, while fake people with no sound morals be hyping about money and their salaries as if that makes them superior or better than their people. You could probably elaborate on even that 1 line for quite a while but will do that another time. Then he's saying how it seems to be a different tragedy all the time , as people in many cases are just rallying and some of the moderate or more Uncle Tom Pastors are mad at him for going direct at America's neck and calling out the government and police for their crimes, but he's saying he's got to be who he's got to be, he can't fake it, he has to be authentic and can't fall in line like that. He's then saying many are drugged up in a long journey filled with bullshyt corrupted contaminated Christian theology, that was planned, changed or written in many cases to control and abuse power and put minorities in a downward place. Then he's saying how even a lot of the so called scholars are liars more concerned with their rep in the white wold than with their people and they subscribe and support these rotten policies.
Now these are just a few bars of a long ass verse, and you look at all the ground he touched, and that's not even getting into the lyrical and rhyme elements he did very effectively.
Will have to do it in bits...
"sweating a discrepancy over the Confederate flag, but whenever cops weapons blast you never get mad"
This line for example, he's saying how these racist hypocrites will get mad over someone being against the confederate flag for what it represents but when the cops are murdering and brutalizing black people they never get mad or cause the same uproar. It's calling out their hypocrisy and their mentality, and how they don't give a fukk about black people but their own agendas and warped racist history, that's what they uphold, and that they don't have any compassion to the human suffering of a race of people up to this day. It's very dope how he did that in 1 line, also the rhyming of it is dope if you know about putting rhymes together, particularly with the context of the other bars.
It will take so much time to break down the bars cause it's packed with shyt so as I said I'll do it in bits but...
"meanwhile, the people they're deceivin' to believe in
every citizens part of this fake American dream n' When the fact of
the matter is that they lack love
for the people who this country was built on the backs of,
the brown and black blood, the sound in that mud
was inundatin' the hood, prior to the crack flood
nobody willin' to listen thats why we still in the system, greedy imperial visions consistent buildin' up prisons
"See thats a mistake man. Dont you know Americas a great land,
Nobody offers you freedom like they can," Wait man,
are we talkin' bout the same great man- who murdered the Indians made the Africans slaves and,
persecuted the planet soon as he left the cave and,
let his hate span, fool, get outta my face man
police academy puttin bullets in our anatomy, savage brutality's while elastic's gassin' their salary,
a different tragedy, sunday through saturday and sad as we rally anothers happenin', scary pastors are mad at me
See but i gotta be who i gotta be
yall are sleep-in a odyssey of hallucinogenic Christian theology
obviously concocted in privacy,
cuz a lotta these lyin' scholars be subscribin' to rotten policies"
So this is saying they are deceiving the people, making them believe in an all inclusive American dream which isn't the reality for many people, specifically ethnic minorities in America. And they have proved time and time again they lack love or compassion for the people who built the country, whether it was through slavery or the previous original inhabitants of the country. The people of African heritage and the American Indians too, not to mention they have fukked over other racial groups too. They've been fukking with people even prior to the crack flood that they orchestrated in the first place to destabilise and destroy the communities. Then he goes on to say nobody is willing to listen to the truth (in mass numbers) and that's why people are still stuck in the corrupt system with such atrocities still going on. The powers that be have greedy visions of building up prisons, making money from the prisons and capitalizing and exploiting on the institutionally racist system. Then he changes to the perspective of a typical brainwashed American apologist, copping pleas saying what he's saying is a mistake and America is a "great land" and nobody offers you freedom like they can and then K brings it back, like HOLD UP, you mean the same America who murdered and committed genocide on the Indians and made Africans slaves for centuries? And has been persecuting people and committing crimes ever since they left the caves, and let their hate span all over the world, through invasions and conquering of other countries and even continents far away, for instance when you look at something historically like the British Empire and what they did, or even the Romans, or America itself and what they've done which is a vast history of racial and otherwise atrocities. So he's saying get out of my face with that bullshyt, cause he's not buying it cause he knows the actuality and the history. Then he's saying how the police are putting bullets in us, with savage brutality, while fake people with no sound morals be hyping about money and their salaries as if that makes them superior or better than their people. You could probably elaborate on even that 1 line for quite a while but will do that another time. Then he's saying how it seems to be a different tragedy all the time , as people in many cases are just rallying and some of the moderate or more Uncle Tom Pastors are mad at him for going direct at America's neck and calling out the government and police for their crimes, but he's saying he's got to be who he's got to be, he can't fake it, he has to be authentic and can't fall in line like that. He's then saying many are drugged up in a long journey filled with bullshyt corrupted contaminated Christian theology, that was planned, changed or written in many cases to control and abuse power and put minorities in a downward place. Then he's saying how even a lot of the so called scholars are liars more concerned with their rep in the white wold than with their people and they subscribe and support these rotten policies.
Now these are just a few bars of a long ass verse, and you look at all the ground he touched, and that's not even getting into the lyrical and rhyme elements he did very effectively.
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