Alas Babylon

[Intro: Malcolm X (from Malcolm X)]
I'm not here this afternoon as a republican or as a democrat
Not as a mason or as an Elk
Not as a protestant or a catholic
Not as a christian or a jew
Not as a baptist nor a methodist
In fact, not even as an American, because if I was an American, the problem that confronts our people today wouldn't even exist

[Chorus]
It's the haves versus the have-nots ain’t no in-between
For the cream
Niggas fix they mind to hair-brained schemes
Pull up to your building with the heavyweight machines
Run up in yo shit as we came from everything

[Verse 1]
I nevеr got my piece of the applе pie
I guess I gotta take it
They always told me life is what you make it
Peddle this penitentiary chances that I’m taking
Came on a slave ship, the fuck is immigration
Blow up these project buildings we need some acreage
40 to a man is the promise that they made us
Broken dreams crashed like 40 bottles on the pavement
Land of the free, except my niggas in them cages
It's world war three in our feed, nigga Twitter think it's cute
With these memes and these jokes 'til Iran drop a nuke
And we through, No escape
Babylon at the gates
No one’s safe, we just wait
Wait to die another day
What’s the matter? Make this money, buy a rollie
Fuck these bitches cop a phantom, beam or Benzs
Rockin ice on my appendage
See we can’t take it with us
Even dying be expensive
Dark is living hell on earth you say is waiting at the ending?

[Chorus]
It's the haves versus the have-nots ain’t no in-between
For the cream
Niggas fix they mind to hair-brained schemes
Pull up to your building with the heavyweight machines
Run up in yo shit as we came from everything
It's the haves versus the have-nots ain’t no in-between
For the cream
Niggas fix they mind to hair-brained schemes
Pull up to your building with the heavyweight machines
Run up in yo shit as we came from everything

[Bridge]
All I got is my word to my boss and
Fifteen bricks in the dirty apartment
Stabbing at these candles while I’m loading the cartridge
Ready to finish it if ever they start shit
All I got is my word to my boss and
Fifteen bricks in the dirty apartment
Stabbing at these candles while I’m loading the cartridge
Ready to finish it if ever they start shit

[Outro: Agent Smith & Cypher (from The Matrix)]
Agent Smith: Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?
Ignorance is bliss