CURRENT STATE OF MiND V

[Intro]
You have to understand the castration of the black male's ego, by the white power structure
This also speaks to the earlier conversation on sports and athletics as well, it's one of the only vehicles where you can challenge, a white person, without them feeling threatened and being motivated by the need to seek revenge against you

[Chorus]
Days go by, we gon' see who gon lie
Live your life, evеrybody gon' die
I don't have time, so you know I don't try
Whеn you need a spare tire, we gon' see who gon' ride
How you know me when you don't know yourself?
Only took time so you could show yourself
Getting back at me but you gon' hold yourself
Niggas ain't solid, better bro yourself

[Verse 1]
When you black you gotta get a title deed on a map
I was selling beats on a app
I remember days I thought you had to read just to rap
I would always bleed on a track
And when you gettin' money know that you got cheese for the rats
Make you put degrees on a strap
And everytime a nigga think he quit the lean, I relapse
I don't have too many ways to relax
Days in the East, days in the East
Lately I been swimming in the belly of the beast
"Zooloo where you been, when you gon' drop your next release?"
I been soul searching, I been talking to my priest
My daughter got a full set of teeth
Her mama got me sweating like I'm Keith
My sister say she really love her niece
But she don't even wanna talk to me
I get so many calls in a week, but I could never fall to my knees
I let her crack her stiletto with ease
Where's the juice from all the lemons that you squeeze?
How are you the G.O.A.T when you dropping with an artist five years and they only streaming five K?
V for Vagina not Villian
You'd be household names if you only did it my way

[Chorus]
Days go by, we gon' see who gon lie (Ayy)
Live your life, everybody gon' die (Ayy)
I don't have time, so you know I don't try
When you need a spare tire, we gon' see who gon' ride
How you know me when you don't know yourself?
Only took time so you could show yourself
Getting back at me but you gon' hold yourself
Niggas ain't solid, better bro yourself

[Interlude]
You don't go on a white guy on the court, it's okay
If you tackle a white guy on a football field, it's okay
So only through sports, is black aggression if you would, unbridled masculinity is actually celebrated, it's the only place where it's celebrated, where it is not feared or punished
We have to realise, that a lot of the -, most black men have suffered, from some form, of psychological castration at the hands of the white power structure
We are not allowed, to maximise our God-given intellectual talents

[Verse 2]
Cracker really tried, can't oppress none
Label owner going on a press run
Pushing on my buttons, tell 'em, "Press one"
You wanna get bodied, go and press one
You were selling lies to the public and you know you can't cut it, where the hell you get the best from?
I was selling rhymes in the Gully, niggas been getting money, you ain't give me no projection
And we some real ass niggas, always in the house and we some field ass niggas
They gon' think you soft 'cause you a chilled ass nigga
Faking signatures they tryna kill that nigga
I'm so mad, I can't think
Eyes wide open, I can't blink
Sign my name with no ink
My name too big, it can't shrink
They don't like when niggas get money
Playing with my life and my kid, ain't funny
How you put a male on a come-up, you a dummy
My nigga say he wanna wipe his noise, it was runny

[Outro]
I'ma talk about what really happened, what actually happened, so and what's actually going on
So, you've got individuals who, who could steal, your publishing with pieces of paper, knowing that, it's very hard to prove, that, you-you ain't sign the contract, you know?
You see your signature on a contract you ain't never seen, you will start believing in magic, but
You got people, who-who are able to do that and-and-and, you know steal, your-your-your-your catalog and uhm---
Represent you and say you-you-you published by them, they do your publishing, when you never signed these contracts
And, those people's goals, is-is-is to, back us into a corner where we're-we're either so broke or we're, where-where we worried about our careers so much, that we gonna come crawling back and give the same people our music
I personally have, decided I'm not going to do that, whether I never get to drop or whether I-I drop one day, I-I will not hand over any MP3 or wav., to people who-who-who manage to do that, in front of everyone, this is happening in front of everyone, I just kept quiet about it, I didn't tell the story
One thing that confuses me the most, is, how are you gonna try and get back at me, for not wanting to work with you, it's, this is one of the most, bizarre things I've ever experienced, this one of the most arrogant things I've ever experienced
They walking around that office probably talking about, "Nobody crosses us"
I didn't cross you for not wanting to work with y'all no more, you know?
I didn't-I didn't-I didn't do nothing wrong, for holding y'all a-accountable for something y'all did
So I don't understand what squeezing me, and my family, is-is suppose to do
I don't understand, what-what trying to starve my family and trying to take everything I've ever worked for away from me just 'cause I don't wanna work with y'all
I would understand it maybe if I signed those contracts and you guys were standing by them, these contracts, I didn't-I didn't-I didn't, I don't know nothing about these contracts, I signed away my catalog, my whole catalog, for nothing, nothing
To all my fans, to everybody who's ever streamed a song by me, anybody who keeps me on repeat, anybody who fights for me in these debates and says I am the best, I am the best producer, I am the best artist, anybody who utters those words in any debate, anybody who plays my music religiously, I apologize for being so stupid, I apologize for, trusting so easy, I apologize, for putting myself in this difficult situation, but it is what it is and you know, I love you, and I will see you soon, hopefully