Fentanyl

[Verse 1: Knox Hill, Knox Hill & Ren]

Conscious rap was vibin', but they said it wasn't sellin'

So instead of Tribe, the quest, it was for highs, I guess I get it

But we sold our De La Soul's and reassigned the proper metrics

Violent raps survived, and Darwinized the profit zealots

Survival of the fittest

Trade your bars for gems, and you'll be shinin', that's the realest

In this climate of addiction stock, Big Pharma is the realest

Now as long as pills are fillin', you ain't really gotta feel the sound

The world is full of juice, and while you're floatin', you been fin' to drown

How many rappers out here missin' now?

But thеy sell you with this vision, and this fear of missin' out (Yeah)

Thе industry will fuck us (True), so we follow what is trendin'

Brag about these hollow tips, but it's all hollow, tip the pen in

I lace my verse with fentanyl, and lean into attention

Toe tags for the mentions, body bags for what they spendin'

While they braggin', we descend, and from the ground, we're all descendants now

[Chorus: Ren]

Sinners don't sleep in this broken town

Tradin' their souls for some gold and brown

Feel the release, come back down

But we're not comin' up

Killers on the city streets, buyin' it up

Crooks and addicts, weird habits get rushed

We livin' in vain just to end it all

And I spend it all on the fentanyl

[Verse 2: Knox Hill]

My cousin was a pitcher, on that curve, he got that scholarship

On campus, he's the man, throwin' heaters, he was hot as shit

But then he hurt his arm, senior year, his time to prove it

Started takin' painkillers so he could play and keep it movin'

Scouts watchin', couldn't lose 'em

So he took more, and he kept usin', 'fore he knew it, he's abusin'

Fastballs and two seams, too clean, but now he's losin' weight

Drug test, he failed, so they kicked him off the team

He tried to kick the habit, but he's mad that he had lost his dreams

And sad, but he got off the lean, but all it takes is one reminder

In his mind, he couldn't help it, he was tryna finally settle

Midnight, he went outside, he was fightin' with his devils

"One hit", he told himself, "It'll help me through this hell

I know I'm sick, and I need help, but one hit, man, what the hell?"

So he lit it, then he took it to the face (Yeah)

But as the story goes, you know that fentanyl was laced

[Chorus: Ren]

Sinners don't sleep in this broken town

Tradin' their souls for some gold and brown

Feel the release, come back down

But we're not comin' up

Killers on the city streets, buyin' it up

Crooks and addicts, weird habits get rushed

We livin' in vain just to end it all

And I spend it all on the fentanyl

[Verse 3: Knox Hill, Knox Hill & Ren]

Took my heart, you took my fuckin' life

Took my pride, you took my mind, took who I am, and turned to vice

Took my fam, I paid the price and now I stand on murdered time

And my plans have turned to ice

I'm burnin' fire, build this pyre higher

I'm wired, and this dopamine get higher, still a broken fiend, supplier

Of the hopeless dreams, when it's all smoke, the only ropes are one that chokes

Will they remember me? Take all my memories and light them on this fire

Fire for the crooked dealer, he who packaged hate

Fire for that greedy villain, he who had it laced

Fire for my future, that look on my father's face

My mother's still in tears, my cousin, he's too far away

When they told me to get help, and yes, I tried, I tried again

But in the end, we're all just vains

And in the end, it came to veins, and in the end, I died in vain

And in the end, I tried to- Fuck it

[Outro: Knox Hill]

*Crying*

Oh, God

(Samad, cook it up, yeah)