From the recording You Are What You Listen To
Lyrics
Verse:1
You sitting on the couch, facing the loud
Face in a frown, feeling like a grouch
You try to be thankful try not to be wishful
It isn't that simple when poverty's an issue
You tried doing right doing right is so slow
Make you want to go grab up a mask a four-oh
Run up on him and point it like give up the dough bro
Then don't worry bout what you don't have no more
But what if you get caught end up on Sycamore
That's a different road so is your freedom worth his gold
Or is it his gold worth your freedom
The type of predicament struggling n*ggas be in
Struggling with they demons struggling with they penis
Influenced by stupid sh*t you water her garden with semen
You chunking and peacing when she say you fathered her seed and
Nother fatherless anther ain't have a father to teach him
To be a man
Hook 1:
These dudes running around with no fatherly guidance
Out here in these streets wilding
We gotta do better
Verse 2:
You standing in the room looking in the mirror
Looking at your figure wishing it was thinner
You looking at tv looking at Mimi
Hanging from the shower rod saying that can be me
You tried working out working out is so slow
Went from Zumba class to the twerk class with a pro
You growing desperate just to see those results
On the internet copping waist trainers for the low
You looking doper now on Instgram dudes scope you out
You don't take a pic unless you turn around and poke it out
You prefer bad b*tch instead of selfless queen
All those likes is what boost your self esteem
And its so apparent the more folks thats staring
The more lost you get the less clothes you wearing
You don't show yourself respect and it hurts me
And you wonder why men be acting all thirsty
Hook 2:
Nothing but the truth
These women will degrade themselves in an instant
All for popularity and attention
We gotta do better
Verse 3:
Turn the radio on I ain't feeling it dog
Gotta thank God for auxiliary cords
Every 30 minutes hear the same songs
On all these songs hear the same guys
So I'm convinced this is operation brainwash
Said double cups what's up got your brain fried
If you stop and listen and really pay attention
All these kids learning is how to go to prison
All these young women all they ever see
Is how to exploit themselves for celebrity
Half of them you wouldn't consider something to wife
They too busy looking for beauty under the knife
I feel like if we showed better they'd know better
Stop trying to be like the next be a go getter
We gotta do more that's all I can say
Until we all step up and show them the way it won't change
Hook 3:
We got a responsibility I aint just rapping Its more to life than turning up and trapping
Lets Take action
We gotta do better
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