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this song started off about braggadocio and ended up being about gentrification? i don't know what happened here. rick snyder is a dummy.

lyrics

follow me to the gates of hell or to plates of kale
if i'm rarely on time it might mean i'm too late to fail

entering mystic zones glimpses in the crystal shown
narcissistic clones too busy to grow artistic bones

my alter ego, is the supreme leader of a race of tall bird people
i'm called Nerd Eagle

my bullshit detector has a high tech
filtration system
weeds out the haters and believers in creationism

most of yall are ex skaters with a cocaine addiction
snort lines long as the mason dixon is your daily mission

you hate to hear it, the tensions thicker than maple syrup
if it ain't a paid appearance then i ain't appearing

your favorite labels had a bidding war
once they saw me break a billion boards
and the blade of the Spirit Sword

maybe that's the pacifist in me and though i hate fights
i should probably join a group of overzealous space knights

'cause really i just wanna take ship rides and ride on some ziplines
and die in the rip tides

but
i don't even wanna brag yet
i don't even wanna talk sad yet
i just wanna relax rest and get some teabags wet
and snag the top sash at the swag fest

v2
what's the balance between a gentle rise
and neighborhoods being gentrified?

like you living in the same spot all your life
a store opens next door
and you cain't afford the shit inside

paycheck probably a different size
there's no inflation adjustment, i see the raping of budgets
greatly intensified

and now your rent is high
local demographic shifted now you fit a description meant to be vilified

and if you live in places yet to be penetrated
they getting innovative
genocide's been incentivized

things allowed in the H20
lower you base I Q
and they don't care if your kids survive

maybe we'll be able to police the politicians and see their negligent decisions result in being penalized

but i gotta better chance jumping through the television into a film
now i'm the captain of the Enterprise

Snyder gotta drink lead the rest of his years just to make it a 8th even
or claim he's civilized

now i'm muthafuckin sad now
somebody done tipped over the cash cow
feeling like i'm eating out the trash now
that's just McDonald's, Ronald laughing in the background

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from I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS, released April 29, 2016

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Illingsworth Detroit

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stuff i make = music with @rufiojones @seanuppercut, beats, raps, videos.
born & bred resident of Detroit.
smooth due to alopecia.

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