Shithole

Tell me what a shithole look like

Is it a place built on the backs of enslaved people was taken from they people

By hate and deranged evil and greed and the need

To feel that we all not the same people where no one is made equal?/

Tell me what a shithole look like, where we move heaven and earth/

For a couple of men’s net worth while we let our poor live in dirt/

Where lies are national, fashionable trumps factual/

Where we don’t know what just is, justice is laughable?/

Tell me what a shithole look like

Where you get famous for being famous we worship the mediocre

Where bankers is playing poker with people’s futures with futures and leave them homeless

And our leaders save them and leave us broken/

Is that what a shithole look like? where we send folks to die for courage and valor

In their mind but for real it be for the purses of power

And we proclaim that we kill to defend the people’s rights

But install dictators just for resources at cheaper price/

What a shithole look like? is it what the hood like?

Where you could die any minute because of what you look like?

Where children starving all cause of discrimination

In ghettos created by homeowners loan corporation/

Was an agent of the government so, tell me what a shithole look like

Is it a place where we exist cause the unforgivable

And walk around like if you not us we don’t want sit with you

Where opinions with truth in them dismissed as hypercritical?/

Tell me is a place a shithole

Where we lock and abuse people and cage the soul out 'em based on a color skin tone

Allow folks to make millions off their pain while they sit home

Smiling, while babies crying cause they fathers ain't never get home?/

I’m tryna imagine a shithole aesthetic..

Is it where anyone with an amplified voice is prophetic?

Where people who gave their lives for freedom go unknown

But we deify people who make phones?/

Tell me, when our president called black countries a shithole

Was i mad because that’s racist to say?

And i know its wrong but deep down i be thinking the same?

And i would’ve said it to a neighbor over a brew and a j?/

Like do i know why wrong things are wrong?

Do i accept my many privileges, and the role that i play when i play along?/

Do i want a pat on the back for basic humanity?/

Would i still be righteous in the face of calamity?/

Tell me what makes a shithole? i think i live in one/

Am i ready for it to change ‘fore i get my livin’ done?/

This ain't a riddle son these are the simplest questions/

If i knew i’s making a shithole would i switch professions?/

How we make a shithole on land that was never ours/

Then puff our chest out with no shame bout how we get the power?/

Create a monster the surest way to get devoured/

Homie look around you, A mu'fuckin shithole