Why Am I So Happy? - Spose, Renée Coolbrith

You should see these Nike SB’s that I copped online

I turned the AC on then I wrote a hot rhyme

The girl who made my sneakers sobbin' all the time

Indonesian sweatshop makin' pennies and she’s nine

I took a clean towel out the closet

Showered half an hour took a sip up out the faucet

A mother in Nigeria, I wouldn’t wanna be ya

No clean water, so her daughter died of diarrhea

I typed a post about my government, was critical

And they didn’t arrest me even though it sounded liberal

In Russia, punishment for that isn’t reciprocal

You question ‘bout the man, then your lifespan’s minimal

When I was six, my biggest worry if I can reminisce

Was that I’d have a Super Nintendo but not a Genesis

Six year old in Rwanda blood what he’s wearin'

They cut his arm off when he wouldn’t kill his parents

I made babies out of wedlock

I read Ladybug Girl then get stoned in the basement by the bedrock

She defied arranged marriage, her betrayed parents

Stoned her to death on the terrace with the cleric

I took a bite of pizza told them, «Give the chef my accolades»

I eat a couple slices then I threw the other half away

A child stomach squealing, begging, he ain’t eat in days

He collapsed with a thud, sounded like a 808

I don’t go to church or the mosque, or the synagogue

If there is a God, he isn’t in my thoughts

A Kurd didn’t fit their definition of religion

Got beheaded in front of his children who lay in prison

I saw a tweet a girl wrote

It said, «I hate school, I’d rather skip it, party, take body shots,

and break rules»

School girl got her body shot by the Taliban

Women die to be educated out in Pakistan

If I know how it’s goin' down

Why am I so happy now?

I don’t know

I just filmed a video with Bosch

He just bought a drone, flew over a soccer game, we looked at it,

looked fuckin' dope

Iraqi kids playin' soccer live a humble home life

Mom screams as they got killed by a drone strike

Although neither represent my section

I voted the lesser of two evils in the last election

Some countries only got one candidate

Question them and you can pick which limb they’re gonna amputate

I got police protecting my township

Dial up the number, Crown Vic, come around quick

In Mexico, cops crooked east of Buena Vista

Juan had to join the cartel just to protect his sister

I love my daughter and the smile on her face

I told her she gotta be thirty-five before she start to date

Syrian girls abducted by the caliphate

They’re fourteen, sold as sex slaves in the Islamic state

I feel so alive bumpin' dead rappers

Life could be like lice, it’s a head scratcher

«Why am I so happy?», I don’t gotta answer that

«Why are you so miserable?»

Is the question that I need to ask

If I know how it’s goin' down

Why am I so happy now?

I don’t know