produced by simonsayz and b sides additional production by lupe fiasco and chill
first off say peace to pine ridge
shame at all the damage that the white man wine did
ghost dance trail of tears five million beers a year
and all that other crime did
more peace to the teachers of blind kids
to rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
say everything’s hostile
suicide bombers and prosperity gospels emaciated models
with cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils they got to
just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
straight hair high heels and a handbag
crucifixes racism and a land grab
katrina fema trailers human body sandbags
a peace sign and a pants sag
a money toss cause a nine stripper mad dash
a friend request following a hash tag
now everybody want it like the last laugh
a michael jackson jacket or a daft mask
purple jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
stable is when the ba’ath had baghdad
but corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
war and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
cause that’s just more dinosaur for their cadillacs
hook
live from the other side what you see
a bunch of nonsense on my tv
heaven on earth is what i need
but i feel i’m in hell every time i breathe
reporting live from the other side what you hear
a bunch of nonsense all in my ear
rich man poor man we all gotta pay
cause freedom ain’t free especially ’round my way
and we marvel at the state of ottoman
then turn around and treat ghana like a garbage can
america’s a big motherfuckin’ garbageman
if you ain’t know you’re part and parcel of the problem
you say no you ain’t and i say yes you is
soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
you say no they didn’t and i say yes they did
the definition of unnecessaryness
manifested
say that we should protest just to get arrested
that goes against all my hustling ethics
a bunch of jail niggas say it’s highly ineffective
depart from martin connect on malcolm x tip
insert baldwin to similar the separate
to me the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
or finding really fast internet to have some sex with
it’s all one song short of a set list
couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
so absurd word to chief bone necklace
down at the lakota sioux casino
a whole culture boiled down to giving you pokeno
i go as left as a heart in the chest
cause the horn of africa is now starving to death
hook
live from the other side what you see
a bunch of nonsense on my tv
heaven on earth is what i need
but i feel i’m in hell every time i breathe
reporting live from the other side what you hear
a bunch of nonsense all in my ear
rich man poor man we all gotta pay
cause freedom ain’t free especially ’round my way
an allwhite los angeles the dream of mr chandler
hope and pray they take columbus day up off the calendar
south central an example of god’s gifts
so shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6
the projects of oakland city detroit ghost towns
monopolies on poverty where dboy coke bound
its parts of manila like the video for thriller
but the us embassy is reminiscent of a villa
if poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
then whats the flavor of the sunday preachers pedophilia
cash rules everything around these niggas
as classrooms everywhere around me wither
hither you can be mr burns or mr smithers
the tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
of the extremes of americas dream
freud fighting neo freddy krueger refereeing now
hook
live from the other side what you see
a bunch of nonsense on my tv
heaven on earth is what i need
but i feel i’m in hell every time i breathe
reporting live from the other side what you hear
a bunch of nonsense all in my ear
rich man poor man we all gotta pay
cause freedom ain’t free especially ’round my way
great american rap resurrect
lupe on the check
westside till i die
Artist: Lupe Fiasco
Year: 2012
Decade: 10s
Language: en
Word Count: 419