It's All Insane For Me

[Chorus] It's all insane to me We never lived like we supposed to Now they wanna come say to me "You should be a registered voter" We still living in slavery Meeting the prison industrials quota No you can't play this game with me I'm a bit wiser and older [Verse 1] Big car, big house, 2.5 kids This is the way the system told us we had to live Many of us took the role, many of us paid the bid We thought it was positive, but it turned out negative It put us all in debt from the sweat of our relatives So stay in school, that's a lie, what are you telling kids? We gotta wake up to the present reality Knowledge, that's more than just chasing a salary Knowledge, that's about lifetime enjoyment The education is training for lifetime employment They want you to work till you die No retirement, no social security I wonder why (Uh) [Chorus] It's all insane to me We never lived like we supposed to Now they wanna come say to me (C'mon) "You should be a registered voter" We still living in slavery (Woo) Meeting the prison industrials quota No you can't play this game with me (Ya) I'm a bit wiser and older [Verse 2] I dropped out of junior high school Sometime in the 80s when it was not cool Yeah I was criticized, told I was living lies Cause the hip-hop MC is what I epitomize There was nothing for us little guys, but I ain't worried I walked right into the Brooklyn Public Library That's where I realized they got us like fools When the prisons are more maintained than the schools Like a thief in the night, on the run I drop jewels They give rappers 40 acres and treat them like mules Life is mechanical, brother, I got the tools Life is like a game, my sister, I spit rules I win battles and duels against the devil and jewels Hungry for the minds of our kids in these schools I hope this song hits a young dropout Forget homework, learn how to work home, no doubt (Uh) [Chorus] It's all insane to me (Uh-ha) We never lived like we supposed to (C'mon) Now they wanna come say to me "You should be a registered voter" (C'mon) We still living in slavery Meeting the prison industrials quota (Woo) No you can't play this game with me I'm a bit wiser and older [Verse 3] They never wanted us to vote, the whole process is a joke They leave us all with no hope And anyone you vote for or support with cheers You're gonna wind up not liking them in just four years You might have to adjust your ears for this clever rap See it's all about where your head is at and where you headed at See this a better rap, we don't need to edit that When I say we bigger than Republican and Democrat Democrats supported slavery, remember that And it was the Republicans that fought to put an end to that When black people would rise and many people resented that After the Civil War, there was the Reconstruction Act The feds made a way for all blacks to start coming back Political office, blacks could now run for that But racists couldn't face this in public spaces They felt it to be tasteless in political places To have a black person lead America, they hated this The governors, even the ministers, they all stated this If you're gonna drop out, no doubt Educate yourself, this is what it's all about [Chorus] It's all insane to me We never lived like we supposed to Now they wanna come say to me (Woo) "You should be a registered voter" (Yeah) We still living in slavery Meeting the prison industrials quota No you can't play this game with me (Yeah) I'm a bit wiser and older It's all insane to me We never lived like we supposed to Now they wanna come say to me "You should be a registered voter" We still living in slavery (C'mon) Meeting the prison industrials quota (You know) No you can't play this game with me I'm a bit wiser and older