Word To! Video (MV)

What civilization is
Is six billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in
It's not a pleasant situation
Why are we at war with one another
Division is not a form of math that adds up
How can you have community without unity
Why is the culture more convenience than empowerment
Why cry when you choose to do as you do
(The real)
Why should I party with people who always deceitful and don't want to see me prevail
How could I pardon their evil and still keep it peaceful if they only cheer when I fail
See you in hell, I'm lying, cause I am a lion of God, He saved me when I fell
Out here threading the needle to reap what I sew
So my soul isn't something for sale
Couldn't you tell, this isn't a tale
This Ninja Turtle came out of his shell
No plan to abandon you without a trail
Blood of the Lord, then I'm someone to hail
Y'all keep the cover of Double XL
It would be nice, but I'll still excel
I will excite until they don't exhale (gasp)
I'd rather live life than do life in a cell
That's word to the jails (word)
That's word to the scale
And word to the block, and word to my L
That's word to the Lord when they hit that record, I give them the real (word)
Since y'all wanna brag I got something to tell
I get to the bag and I ain't gotta kill
I get to the bag and I ain't gotta kill
Yo te lo juro mis hijos, morenos, latinos, unidos ganamos la guerra
Lo que pasa es que nadie respeta y lo que hablan son indirectas
First it was Nipsey, then it was P&B
Takeoff was somewhere he ain't need to be
Triple X in the car by his scenery
And Stack in the hood he was greeted in
I swear I'm sick of this culture we murdering
The vultures and poachers who bury 'em
Please don't approach him and open a nerve in him
Get to injecting the truth that I served to 'em
Got a way with these words they be purchasing
What it's like when you find what your purpose is
Write a verse without curses to church 'em with
With the gift that Our Father has birthed 'em with
That's word to the jails (word)
That's word to the scale
And word to the block and word to my L
That's word to the Lord when they hit that record, I give them the real (word)
Since y'all wanna brag I got something to tell
I get to the bag and I ain't gotta kill
I get to the bag and I ain't gotta kill
Had enough of the gun talking, all the drugs talking
And the blood sporting', that we all caught in
I've been off of it, y'all been all for it
It's uncalled for and yet they call for it
Hit that call forward, when they call for him
Want a Friend now, hit up Ross for it
Try to win now and take a loss for it
Put that pride first, end up lost for it
I want more for it, give me more for it
That's that greed talking and they poor for it
Fill my cup Lord, watch me pour from it
See the trap door and watch 'em fall for it
They get off on it, I go off for it
Try to shine light, they shut off on him
Guess in hindsight, they just blind mice
Why would they see what they caused for it
That's word to the jails (word)
That's word to the scale
And word to the block and word to my L
That's word to the Lord when they hit that record, I give them the real (word)
Since y'all want to brag I got something to tell
I get to the bag and I ain't gotta kill
I get to the bag and I ain't gotta kill
Culture is not your friend
Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions
It insults you
It disempowers you
It uses and abuses you
None of us are well treated by culture
It fetishizes objects
Creates consumer mania
It preaches endless forms of false happiness
Endless forms of false understanding in the form of swirly religions, and silly cults
It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines