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