Not Great

[Intro]
How many times can you say that you have actually been in need of a policeman?
Very few, I offer. I think you will concur
And uh, we are entitled, I think, to a little exploration as to how these people spend their day

[Verse: Mykele Deville]
Oh say can you see?
This government with another trick up its sleeve
Wanna rock me to sleep then sell me a dream
Foot the bill watch it kill never really hear the screams, suppression
Will we ever really learn our lesson?
Narrative is warped, never needed a confession
Check the method: Make em wait, Make em pay, Make em slaves
Make em hate anything that they don't understand
How they supposed to fight the biggest gang in the land?
Pipedreams funding pipelines in the sand
Wanna raise up a fist, whoa now theyre outta hand, getting violent
Protect the blue code of silence
Put a black site near campus like a island
We paying tuition to keep a victim in confinement, Geronimo
Can't even hollow out the cells of Guantanamo
Don't hear the whole truth we learn what we want to know
Lies!
Manage morale to keep the empire quiet
Political poker they playing games with our lives
From The Chi won't comply with a stop & frisk
They betta find another option quick
Cause we awake and we ain't going nowhere (nowhere)
We know the basis of this and its unfair (unfair)
Triple K's and the cross intertwined with the faults of the folks at the top and they don't care. (Don't care)
So how to live? how we gone manage?
You know we gotta understand how they take advantage
We can't be begging for some access theyve never granted
We have to reassess our language to heal the damage
So we can breathe and feel fresh like we rose from the concrete (concrete)
Muddy flesh but we sun kissed honestly (honestly)
Redefine what it means to be a patriot
But most of all redefine what greatness is...

[Chorus (Repeat 4x)]
Never great, never great, never was
How can you when pumping communities full of drugs?

[Verse: Jovan]
They wanna hate me!
But at the same time, they wanna date me, take me, wanna rape me
Scape, humiliate me, cage and mutilate me
I have scars (I got scars. Yeah, I got scars.)
Telling me who I are, reminds me of the dipshits
Who brought us on ships who were chaining all our slit wrists
Who can I trust, who can I run to?
Because everywhere I turn, they’re tryna hunt too
Am I a mad black woman? Yeah I’m one, two
Amongst the many other brothers, yeah I told you
On the corner over there, I see the po-po
Driving in their four-door riding slow-mo
On the side of their waist is a fo-fo
Cocked the gun and they shot a little Jo-Jo, solo
As the time fly as opportunities to knock
The clock won’t beat me, I am never gonna stop
This is not what I had originally fantasized
Just waiting on replies and asking the Lord why (why why why why?)
I’m knowing this all too well, they took my daddy from me
Even though I turned out cool, It’s sad how, they can do this legally
They do it so strategically, making it so hard and not easily
They not gone put me down, because I continue to breathe, I continue to breathe!
We gone be alright, at the end of the tunnel, we can see the light
We gone fight until the hell freeze over, and we gone fight while we’re still on ice, bitch!

[Chorus]

[Outro]
You can never expect to get a fair shake, from anything that is involved with government
There is nobody who has ever run the government who has ever been fair and righteous
Don't ever leave yourself open, to these people because they're dirty (that's a funny word: dirty. That's very basic.)
But they are, they're dirty and they're no god damn good