Akala – What Is Real Lyrics
Lyrics
- Will you you talk about being from the hood, like we're glad
- Wear it proud, like it's a badge
- But I'll be damned if, when I'm a dad my kids don't have more than I had
- Please don't confuse your situation, with identity, it's not the same thing
- You were pharaohs and scholars, long before the day you were armed robbers
- But, whatever, it's dumb to be clever, better to act like your brains been severed
- Like these Americans so called “artists” boasting about their latest garments
- But the same labels make it very clear, they don't make clothes for dark skin
- Can't you see they're laughing? The question that I'm asking
- Real
- Is it real, really?
- Now is it real really?
- Real
- Is it real, really? (Is it real really?)
- I doubt it's real really
- Real
- Is it real, really? (dolla dolla bill y'all)
- Now is it real really?
- Real
- Is it real, really?
- I doubt it's real really. (uh, get money)
- Pop champagne got my chain, act like you got no brain
- Pop champagne got my chain, act like you got no brain
- Pop champagne got your chain, act like you got no brain!
- Come on let's pop champagne!
- Come on let's pop champagne!
- Sorry, if I don't dance enough for the radio to play my stuff
- And got no girls in the video playing the city ho loco shakin' their butts
- I thought that rap was about content, I see now that's just nonsense
- We judge MC's by the Bentleys, and how much they can have no conscience
- How many chains can you wear, and not care, the cost was a village somewhere
- Stones of begets, slowly forget, this ain't the first time there were chains on your neck
- It was much worse, choose to accept, but now vexed, just perplexed
- Of course that's all us people do all day, is pop champagne and have sex!
- Why am I lying, I can't stand it, Chip on my shoulders the size of a planet!
- I organic on the mike and the flames I will fan it
- To burn down the galaxy I'm up to the challenge
- Burn down the fallacy, scorch it with talent
- Burn down the anarchy, restore the balance
- I am the war with New York to Paris
- No fun now around me, I'm far too savage
- Yeah, hittin with knowledge, 'cuz we import it, ignoramus
- You're playin' the stereotype, so of course you're famous
- If for just one second you took your head from out your anus
- You would see the motivation for your elevation
- What is real?
- Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
- What is real?
- Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
- What is real?
- Or is it something that I can truly feel?
- Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
- What is real?
- What is real?
- Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
- What is real?
- Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
- What is real?
- Or is it something that I can truly feel?
- Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
- What is real?
- Still, I got love for you, though it's very clear that you hate yourself
- I'm just saying don't food for the crap, being from the ghetto don't make you more black
- Also the fact: this is bigger than the color of your skin
- It's a matter that we're all in
- Dumber you act, the bigger the cheer
- The bigger the fool, the bigger career
- It's about playing a role, the educated can't be controlled
- It's about playing a role, the educated can't be controlled
- So by keeping yourself dumb, keeping yourself under the thumb
- By keeping yourself dumb, keeping yourself under the thumb
- (Feeding your face on the foods that are?) dumb, keeping yourself eating the crumbs
- Elevating some fool with a gun, keeping ourselves numb
- So we can fit in in a world where the price of life is less than the cost of living
- So we can fit in in a world where the price of life is less than the cost of living
- Have you forgotten what is real?
- Close your eyes and don't believe that all you see is all you feel
- Got few tattoos, few bullet wounds? Silly songs? Deliver the tunes?
- That tattoo may as well say coon, may as well grunt just like a baboon
- That's what people see when they look at me,
- though they may applaud my stupidity
- It's like sharks in a shark tank, watch them tear each other apart
- Find the sharks entertaining, but that don't mean that we think they're smart
- Or are for that matter, you maybe call yourself a rapper
- Disrespect women, but, but you are the one who is a slapper
- You get paid to degrade yourself, publicly castrate yourself
- What is real?
- Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
- What is real?
- Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
- What is real?
- Or is it something that I can truly feel?
- Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
- What is real?
- What is real?
- Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
- What is real?
- Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
- What is real?
- Or is it something that I can truly feel?
- Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
- What is real?
- We all play our positions, convinced that we are so different
- Accept these doctrines, and this nonsense, and we take these options
- Without one second, never questioning just what the cost is
- You're not a hater, you can't relate to the lowest denominator, dominator!
- No, I don't wanna read the Source, I'd rather read some of Plato's thoughts
- Of course, let us not ever forget, the place in which where he was taught
- So if it ain't clear, none of these clown rappers could be my peers
- It's philosophical, historical, speculations that I thought were rhetorical
- Like what's real, is it my face if an atom is nothing but empty space?
- Why the rock feel solid when I'm on it and a comet could collide with the Earth and dislodge it?
- Or maybe sonnets, metaphoric, promises the tonic for all that (is chronic?)
- Illness, apathy, ignorance tapestry that they weave to turn us into batteries
- What is real?
- What is real?
- What is real?
- Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
- What is real?
- Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
- What is real?
- Have you forgotten what is real?
- Close your eyes and don't believe that all you see is all you feel