Thought vs Everybody - Black Thought

In just a few moments

We will hear from the most powerful black man in America today

Uh (Everybody)

(I don’t think you heard me) Ayo

The most powerful black man in the world

Ayo, they ask why I seem so solemn

On the throne between three stone columns

You know the name, fuckin' up the game, no condoms

Everybody got damn first world problem

The truth is inconvenient as non-believers

Fearing DACA dreamers instead of FEMA

Bentley, Benz, or a Beamer, Fiji or Aquafina (Everybody, every goddamn body)

We fuck around and be the next Iwo Jima

The tides risin' at the same time like they synchronized

For makin' art, for makin' love, for makin' Hajj

The home is where the hatred lies, they takin' lives

But everybody just so saved and sanctified

Then they rely upon, we the few defiant ones (Everybody, every goddamn body)

Communicating in higher forms than Viacom

To dialogue before the roar of the riot horn

I wonder on which side of the lines I belong?

Lady Liberty face full of concealer

I’m half Masta Killa and half Hugh Masekela

Latrophobia, that’s a fear of the healer

Kaepernick is an activist, y’all in fear of the kneeler

Everything’s obtuse, nothin' is obscene

Another young life was lost on live stream

Another great fell from grace in high esteem

Then the clock struck thirteen, we in some kind of dream

First I’m handling first things, decipher what it means

To a planet of earthlings, where the question remains

Am I a journal or journalist?

Herbal eternalist

Olympic tournament level genius author, affirmative

Though turnin' back and returnin', I’m not concerned with it

The permanent ink paved the way out the turbulence

My hands against the wall outside a billiards hall

I hear police discussin' whether to try and kill us all

I questioned if that’d matter, life is like a tree that falls

In the woods, even with iPhone footage to see it fall

Great men chose the Papermate Pen or State Pen

The firin' pin of a pistol aimed at a playpen

We go from musket to a missile to a revelation (Everybody, every goddamn body)

Between Heaven and Satan, while I’m steady creatin'

And try to separate the truth from the lies that they told us

I even heard the Soviet’s, the 45th POTUS

That ain’t the photo they showed us, or acceptin' the onus

Did they Washington us?

My condolence to y’all diplomas

Here’s a bonus, the point of view to make things see through

If I’m a walking institution, I’m a HBCU

Face the music, keepin' it moving’s one of the great things we do

Yo, the devil’s tryna put together his gang, me too

And whether you come from Lagos or Trinidad and Tobago

You can either stay broke or be wealthy as Jeff Bezos

If you just stay woke, I was in the dark then day broke (Everybody,

every goddamn body)

Directin' questions to my ancestors until they spoke now

Inherently rockin' the disco currently

Bars is cryptocurrency, hypnotherapy

Shittin' on everything, 5'9″, 6'4″ lyrically

Crystal clarity, wonder how I spit so thoroughly

Stay so hungry, rappers can’t get no mercy (Everybody, every goddamn body)

That’s the reason any other one who spit won’t versus me

It’s so lonely in my own class «Formerly known as»

And the inscription that your headstone has

On my own path, in my own world like Disney’s

I feel the fuckin' system fail just like kidneys

Up steps the one who upsets all carriages

'Cause it’s imperative we change the narrative

(Everybody) Yeah, and that’s Thought vs Everybody

(Everybody) Listen, check it out, that go to everybody

(Everybody) Yo, I got myself over everybody

(Everybody, every goddamn body) Yeah, every goddamn body