Green

Countin grams
Greener than these dollars
Ponderin if it really solve all of my problems
Havin things
It'll get me follows
But when it comes down to it
I still be feelin hollow
How can I get rich
And still maintain my soul
Losin all these friendships
Tryna get the gold
This shit feel never ending
When will I have enough
Shit's gettin expensive
N I still be sad as fuck
Focused on ascension
Still not knowin who I am
Got all this potential
I'm still workin for the man
Bills ain't stoppin no time soon
So I guess that I ain't either
Writin rhymes in the meantime
Tryna give my life some meanin
Workin to provide
Til I meet the reaper
We all pay the tithe
We really pay the preacher
I guess that that's jus life
We born into the system
Choose a 9 to 5
Jus to become a statistic
My soul end up a victim
Never pursue what I love
Sold to capitalism
So I end up just a number
They funnel kids into prisons
Start a war on drugs
Ain't no government assistance
This exactly what they want
Savin on labor costs
White man a solicitor
Keep the classist shit
Be an advocate for prisoners
We need a cataclysm
Or ain't shit gon change
I don't want my children killin
For a minimum wage
Green, green, green
Spend my whole life chasin green
Never chase our dreams
Cuz we stuck in the machine
Green, green, green
Smokin for some dopamine
We forget the enemy
They keep us starin at a screen
Public education
Used to brainwash the masses
They don't see a problem
45 was a fascist
Whitewashin history
Pickin through curriculum
Teachin what they want
And erasin all the shit they done
Oppression is systemic
Law and order all corrupt
Abandoned in a pandemic
Showed us they don't give a fuck
This the real disease
Issa system underneath
N they still tryna claim that this the land of the free
Really Fuck the police
They in place to maintain
That property's prioritized
N people still remain chained
Them pigs still get away with killin people in the streets
I'm hopin that you listen
If your pigment look like me
Silence is compliance
And now's the time to speak
Recognize that my whiteness violent
Historically
Regardless of my situation
I've got to acknowledge
My privilege and the system that
Needs to be demolished
Cops gotta be abolished n
I'm jus paying homage
To all my friends in bondage
That shit more than jus symbolic
Cuz they really got this trauma
That they carry from they father
I'll never understand they pain
When 12 claim another body
BLM is not a trend
Society stay movin on
Get used to the movement
Cuz this sumn I'm not movin on
This is real life
Not a hashtag
It don't stop at ya status
But we got work in the morning
Cant afford to get distracted
Green, green, green
Spend my whole life chasin green
Never chase our dreams
Cuz we stuck in the machine
Green, green, green
Smokin for some dopamine
We forget the enemy
They keep us starin at a screen