Word to Grandpops who couldn't fathom the I don't hate America, just demand she keeps her 20-teens looking the 60's, it's crazy A nationwide deja vu, what my 'posed to do? Go to schools after the Klan founder Word 'round town is don't see why we frowning Native American students to learn about Junípero Serra How is that fair, Some unsung and some monsters get monuments built for 'em But we all a little bit a monster? We crooked! Man, your are worthless And man can try, but only God gives purpose You crooked! Be or be quiet Your can catch flames as effortless as riots Entire empire's a castle, chill And the strength of your whole team is crumbled one meme crooked! Your whole works is He ain't old enough to buy but go on and enlist him him to Iraq and why he come back crazy? 'Cause no human being should see the of a baby You expect trust in a system that needed to be Of the madness of trusting a court that a Confederate flag crooked! That's twisted, demented, perverted, got fallen all over us And got the to judge each other Crooked! That fatally flawed Like sickness is a sign you out of the will of God Like one ounce of crack gains the same amount of jail As eighteen of cocaine, but ain't they the thing? crooked! Stay eating our own And muster up a 'stead of celebrating shine And somehow that's righteous like the world to know We exposing them with judgmental boulders Crooked! And at one time, we built One can only why we ain't wiped ourselves out yet as good as it gets: crooked! Clueless put a man on the moon And I still can't get cellphone in my room crooked! Boy, often off-kilter Awful standoff-ish, plan is And awful uncanny, resemblance a Like Chris Columbus might as well landed in Denmark Me - just an Chuck Taylor rhyme sayer And the fact I get lost on the way here is amazing Me - just a crooked stick in all of its And somehow the school-to-prison pipeline missed And moving minds swiftly and change an industry for greatness 'cause cuz got bad blood Yeah, y'all still at a Tunnel Rat Pen player, earthworm, battle cat, trend learn my lesson the day after the world ends And been wrestling with it since my was my girlfriend Crooked like I'll a bullet for my wife Yet I wonder what's under the of the girl on my flight These eyes are mine, off sight, come and get me Homie, I'm not a leader, just a hippie daddy issues Shatter dreams and promises, a hypocrite All the while in the pulpit, the culprit We are all of the above, and wrong and indifferent Yet none of the above, it fit in this Subjects and predicates subjected to my Dedicated to elevating pride It's a ride but if you look inside, bruh things just don't make sense, go wit' it We stay perplexed at the truth that logic But who say that logic the way to understand it? Man, the thinking of our colonizers Truth is proven only through ears and and If you can't touch it, you can't trust it That's why they explain the love in my daughter's eyes And that conscious rap, oh that's played out You old-school, you old, dude, you out It's not cool, them old rules, they out There's new rules, them new ain't like you They say you when you don't toss 'em a retweet I study for test and y'all is looking for a cheat sheet Things I tell ya, love you too much to be scared of ya Concoction of contradictions, misnomers and confusion like the way that I see me An apex predator, ten steps of ya Desperately trying to hide my Papier maché proper, you trying to hide the duct Defending my castle like it could stand in one gust of wind The lust of eyes shackle me just as I be My inner demons eat through my marriage and my What is arrogant and Eloquent ridiculous, and nervous The smell of cigarettes and dreams Sold out the tickets for the Bands that been contenders now Venice Beach vendors Like dawg, that be me I swore I'd never wear skinny But homie real dumb in size 40 Dickies That's laughable, better be And hit the road to see how far that hole go This is tense of this "already I've been delivered" mess None of that I'mma let you guess the little clusters surrounded by natives That's the picture of pride in the eyes of General Custer They watched his eyes slowly close "Yeah, weirdo, we the Alamo" confusing, American generals get statues Even for the that they lose People are so Perpetuating the same hate they out And Netflix the holes in our motives like Who's are you on: Walter or Sky's? You now 'cause every corner boy is now humanized Tryna make ends meet like you and I That shifts your paradigm, that go Change your life on sight the skies in Morocco What is man but rich soil in fine Hennessy A beautiful garden that cost a pretty it's freely given, but you've been warned These stay balanced on the tip of our horns We crooked!