Stew (feat. Krizz Kaliko)

[Intro: Krizz Kaliko & Gradient]
And sometimes it looks better than it feels
Better to look good than to feel good
True or false?
Yeah (Yeah! Pickin’ up the pieces!)
If I’m feelin’ good
It’s gotta be real, ‘cause I can’t fake it
As far as lookin’ good? (Yeah!)
I’m hopin’ that rhyming with conviction and heart is more essential, so we’ll see

[Verse 1: Gradient]
Not long ago, I lost a home and a car in the same day
And in that moment I thought that I may break
But even though it was harder to stay focused
Well if you know me, you know I never vacay
Not when the world been’ spinnin’ like a Beyblade
Grip it and rip it until the thing shake
Destabilize and never maintain
But take from your neighbor? That’s a great gain
With senators sent to play the same game
Insider trades so they can make bank
So the Kyrsten Sinemas and Joe Manchins
Got their home cinemas in their old mansions
Wanna put their pay before you. Ooh!
Then we cry and vote blue
Really don’t know what’s inside of your stew
But I know that never can I now trust you
If your heart’s made of coal, we then combust you
Walls up no Kool-Aid man could bust through
I’m lookin’ like Schoolly D meets the Tool EP
Plus the food he eats is up, too
Can’t help it, I do mean to disrupt you
‘Cause any looming trust is up, dude
I’m low on charge, lemme Raichu later
Then who needs a Pikachu?
Electric shock and awe
Verbal bacchanal
Watch, I’m walkin’ all on your vocabulary
On a tear like I’m perforated
Aerate it, percolate it, all the perjury I thought I had to bury
So now the Ryan Goreys and the David DeMarks
Across five years that made fake remarks
Yo when you’re spreading a lie
And you’re not getting it right
I think the evidence might be one place to start
When you betray the truth, then you betray yourself
Stew in the pain or try and drain it slow
I can understand, we gettin’ tricked into bullyin’
But hurry up and take responsibility, bro
Bein’ homeless and carless got nothin’ on the pain
Of bigoted harm, and my people frequently targeted
So when I speak, I keep receipts
Please proceed, Kali!

[Verse 2: Krizz Kaliko]
Many men can’t walk a mile in my shoe
Took a while, I got proof
Not in style, I got moved
Dumb it down and I tried but they lied to us
Jive, I’m not cool
And everyone inside but not you
Always want to sit on the side of my pool
Think he got way more pride than I do
Oh well, still livin’ alive, I’m not through
Pick it up and then I’m puttin’ it down beside you
And I cried ‘til I’m blue
Really don’t know what’s inside of your stew
But I’ll stay 10 does down in my shoe
Made it kinda sicker as if ‘n I had a flu
Woulda been different, givin’ it time but I’m through
I was tryna make me a hole to climb through
Everybody told me it’s too hard to find you, Kali!