Cheerios

I watched em have to perch with some shit that they couldn’t redo

You never lived that lane but it’s like it was stripped from you

Cause all they ever do is lean back and get stacked off your labor

If you can’t embrace it, they shove you to a chamber

On the path with a board begging for Cheerios

It’s turning dim, you dread the worst and you sense it most

For your child who ain’t fed in days and his spirit’s a ghost

What else can you attempt when the single word you get’s a “no”?

Even if you snag some coins from contributions

The fact is it’s never enough for shift and won’t uphold solutions

You get sympathy assistance but they won’t retain it

It don’t contain any substance, it’s just so the blame fits

And you can sport it like crisp slacks or a plain blouse

So you take on a low rank wage for the same routes

Send the kid to care and never gotta explain clout

Them rugged pills to ingest only make your aches sprout

So you begin peeping around for something to grasp

Cause they launching kicks straight to your groin while you crash

It’s your last and you just tossed it on a scratch tag

Cause if this don’t spark… you press it to your head and snap back

Caught your leader strolling to his ride, you know he holds stacks

Slide on a budget mask… and push in fast

Aim the piece at his dome and mumble “hand me everything.”

Drain the wallet, your cargos, the glove box. What’s that, a ring?

Don’t overlook the stash in the gap that’s beneath the seats

I know you’re heated but take it out on your partner between the sheets.

Forget your peace, forget your raise, forget your ladder and your face.

I swear if you don’t rush the hell up it’s 2 in your brain

… He tried to stall so you put 2 in his brain

He’s leaking out making motions, 2 in his brain

You’re not the sort to take a soul at all

But you just know someone watched or heard, you know the cops got the call

Your road is done, you didn’t know what the hell to choose

They locked you like a creature, now shocked you wound in a zoo

You roll up, you’re staring at the front porch

You blame it on them like they ever in life knew the score

You step from the whip convinced it’s everybody’s fault but yours

You hit the bell while letting despair take its course

His partner answers, you tell her you ended her husband

It’s not a trick or a gag but she still thinking you fronting

… Then you blast em both and vanish out

But you forgot about a small kid, unaware of the world’s evils

Met traumatic venom, he needed support from decent people

What he got instead was absence, the motive was lethal

War steers through aggression toward the naturally peaceful

Never saying I ain’t mindful of those who lack
 facts

My issue lies with the hunger for things abstract


The same damn grip that make em run after cash stacks


But never pause to raise a sprout or roll grass packs


That mindset got a homie’s gaze stone solid


If you peep it, and twitch, they dip out all frolic


Every prize belongs to ones who might jab your jaw


Then ask why you mad or need some damn room at all


I don’t trip on kindness or selfless deeds


But I clock the imbalance in crews and creeds


They running 2K, you on Madden


Turnin' every turf war into savage vs. savage


Ain’t no warmth behind that fervor


Trampling homes like that earns honor


If it don’t, question why they chest out proper