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Despite the fact that we're policed unequally from our majority culture counterparts, the black community still largely understands the need for a group of individuals that they can call on who are professionally trained to deescalate situations (whether or not the police are always that is up for debate). But the reason for that understanding is the presence represented here in this song: the menace to society. I've been in jail with people who are just off. Like, they really do not care. Most of those people are conditioned to become that way through traumatic experiences. And what we experience in mainstream culture in things like gangsta rap is usually only the fun side. Even the more honest street rap leaves out a lot of the less-cool elements of what can plague our neighborhoods: when kids get shot, when whole houses of people get murdered (especially in robberies), men preying on women, kids indoctrinated in violence in continuing the cycle. People doing these things intentionally. If you haven't seen it, that's a good thing, but just know that no rap song can see it for you.

lyrics

"The Menace"

AIN'T A NIGGA DISS ME DYIN OF A NATURAL CAUSE
I'M BACK TO PAINT YA CHURCH BLACK
MAC TO YA BACK
NEVER SAT AND PAUSED
FUCK YA BITCH ASS
YOU BACK THE LAWS
AND THAT FACADE IS NOT HONEST
BUT YOU GON GET A CLAP FO YA ACT
APPLAUSE
IN FACT I CLAP YA WHOLE WHACK "ACT NATURAL" SQUAD
PULLIN SHIT
I GOT EM RUNNIN TRACK AND JOGGIN
BULLETS GETTIN THROWN
NO OPTION FOR YA HALFBACK
THATS THAT
I LEAVE EM NAPPED AND WRAPPED UP
DEFRAUDIN NOTHA NIGGA SOON TO BE NODDIN
ROTTIN
FUCK A SET YA BITCH ASS BELONG IN
ROBBIN MOBBIN NIGGA UNTIL IM DROPPIN
ID PROBABLY GET YOU FOR YA GATORS DEAD IN MY COFFIN
REAL SHITLL HAPPEN THAT OFTEN
CAPPIN GON LEAD TO GATS POPPIN
THAT AINT EVEN THAT SHOCKIN
YOU STAYIN TALKIN SHIT WHERE THERE AINT SHIT TO DO
NIGGA YOU GON DO SOME SHIT OR IT GET DONET TO YOU
GOTTA HAPPEN ONEATHEM WAYS
FO CRACK POPS DIPPED
ME AND LEE STARVED SUMMATHEM DAYS
BECAME A RUNNER HUSTLER SET TRIPPER
GUNNIN YOU LAMES
YALL GOT ME FUCKED UP
I FUCK UP THE GAME
BITCH NIGGA
TRYNA DO THE ODD JOBS
SHIT WAS NEVER FOR ME
KNOWIN I COULD LEVEL UP ANOTHA HUNNIT STORIES
FUCK A WRONG WAY
CANT A RIGHT WAY SUPPORT ME BUT THE NEED WAY
I NEED IT
BETTER RUN IT
MOTOR SPEED-WAY
STRAIGHT ROCK
WHOLESALE
BALLIN OFF THE REPLAY
CAKE GOT STRAIGHT THOTS CRAWLIN
GO WHERE WE SAY
SAID HE WASNT FROM MY HOOD GOT MURDERED ON A WEEKDAY
NO SLIPPIN
NO FUCKIN PASSES
NO LEEWAY
NO HOPE
I STARTED OUT WITH A HEART
PEOPLE COULD NEVER TELL ME AND MY BROTHER LEE APART
A NIGGA SAID MY NAME AIMED FOR HIS HEAD AND SAID YOU HARD?
PULLED THE TRIGGER (left him dying in my arms...)
FUCK THAT
IMMA BUST FIRST SO IMMA NEVER HAVE TO BUST BACK
MAPPIN OUT YOU BABY MAMA CRIB
IMMA RUSH THAT
HUSH THAT
HOPIN YOU FEEL THE PAIN OF DEFEAT
TOUGH ACT WANT BEEF?
SOFT NIGGAS WONT EAT
DONT LET YA LITTLE CUZZIN WALK TO SCHOOL ON MY STREET
I AINT CHOOSE MY DESTINY
MY DESTINATION CHOSE ME
I MERELY MASTERED MY SURVIVAL
A RIVAL DEAD ON ARRIVAL
WITH AN EYEFUL OF HIS BLOOD
IN DENIAL OF FEAR PRIMAL
AND WHEN ME AND MY CREW DIE WE READY
FUCK IF ITS FINAL
THE YOUNGINS IN THE HOOD GON GET RIFLES AND PLAY THE CYCLE
JUST LIKE WE DID
THEY USED TO JUMP ME AND LEE FO WE GOT CHROME
GOT A CLOCK
SHOT IT ONCE
BLOCK EMPTIED
WE WALKED HOME
IM STILL HERE
STILL NO HOE
AND THIS STILL LIFE
STILL DRINKIN AND STILL SMOKIN AND STILL STAYIN ALIVE
AND EVERYDAY STILL WALKIN PAST THE SPOT MY BROTHER WAS KILLED
WE JUST STILL
WE JUST STILL

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from You Will Never Understand (The State of Soul), released February 1, 2019
(featured vocals - Davontay Marston)

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