Word to who couldn't fathom the Obama-sis I don't hate America, just she keeps her promises 20-teens looking like the 60's, crazy A nationwide deja vu, what my people to do? Go to schools named after the Klan Word 'round town is y'all don't see why we American students forced to learn about Junípero Serra How is fair, bruh? Some heroes unsung and some monsters get monuments for 'em But ain't we all a little bit a We crooked! Man, your heroes are And man can sure try, but only God gives You crooked! Be or be quiet Your kingdom can catch flames as as riots Entire empire's a castle, chill And the of your whole team is crumbled with one meme crooked! Your works is twisted He old enough to buy beer but go on and enlist him him to Iraq and why he come back crazy? 'Cause no human being see the inside of a baby You expect in a system that needed to be convinced Of the madness of trusting a court that waved a flag crooked! That's twisted, demented, perverted, got written all over us And got the to judge each other Crooked! logic fatally flawed Like is a sign that you out of the will of God Like one ounce of crack gains the same of jail time As eighteen of cocaine, but they the same thing? crooked! Stay our own kind And muster up a scandal of celebrating shine And somehow that's righteous the world needs to know We them posers with judgmental boulders Crooked! And at one time, we built One can only why we ain't wiped ourselves out yet We're as good as it crooked! Clueless buffoons put a man on the And I still get cellphone reception in my room crooked! Boy, often off-kilter Awful standoff-ish, is outlandish And uncanny, resemblance a mis-mark Like Chris Columbus might as well have landed in Me - an Allstar Chuck Taylor rhyme sayer And the I ain't get lost on the way here is amazing Me - just a crooked in all of its goodness And somehow the school-to-prison pipeline missed And minds swiftly and change an entire industry Tailor-made for 'cause cuz got bad blood Yeah, y'all still at a Tunnel Rat Pen player, earthworm, battle cat, trend Might learn my lesson the day the world ends And wrestling with it since my wife was my girlfriend Crooked I'll take 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 with daddy dreams and promises, a closed-minded hypocrite All the standing in the pulpit, the culprit We are all of the above, and wrong and indifferent Yet of the above, it naturally fit in this and predicates subjected to my detriment Dedicated to devastating pride It's quite a ride but if you inside, bruh things just don't make sense, go wit' it We stay perplexed at the truth that defies But who say that the best way to understand it? Man, that's the of our colonizers Truth is proven only through ears and and If you can't touch it, then you can't it That's why can't explain the love in my daughter's eyes And that's that conscious rap, oh played out You old-school, you old, dude, you out It's not cool, them old rules, phased out new rules, them new dudes ain't like you They say you when you don't toss 'em a retweet I study for every test and y'all is looking for a cheat Things I gotta ya, love you too much to be scared of ya Concoction of contradictions, and paradox Conclusion confusion like the way I see me An apex predator, ten steps of ya Desperately trying to hide my Papier maché proper, you trying to hide the tape my card castle like it could stand in one gust of wind The lust of shackle me just as I be tackling My inner eat through my marriage and my parenting What is arrogant and ridiculous, confident and nervous The smell of cigarettes and broken Sold out the tickets for the Bands that been contenders now Venice Beach vendors dawg, that could be me I swore I'd never wear jeans But homie real dumb in size 40 Dickies That's laughable, better be And hit the to see how far that rabbit hole go is present tense None of this "already been delivered" mess of that pseudo-righteousness I'mma let you the rest Lusted little clusters by natives That's the picture of foolish in the eyes of General Custer They his eyes slowly close like "Yeah, weirdo, we the Alamo" It's confusing, generals get statues Even for the battles that they are so perplexing Perpetuating the same hate out protesting And exposing the holes in our motives like Who's side are you on: or Sky's? You cornered now 'cause corner boy is now humanized Tryna ends meet just like you and I That shifts your paradigm, that go Change your life on sight like the in Morocco What is man but soil toiled in fine Hennessy A garden that cost a pretty penny Listen it's given, but you've been warned These halos balanced on the tip of our horns We crooked!