Jason D.Harris, Leroy Jones - American Detox Lyrics

You got all these gifts but you gave yourself nada
Dressed up like a baller but your pockets full of dollars
Fake to you make it was the word from your mama
So you cold in the summer, now your hard in the winter
This is not ghetto dreams, this is more like a scene
Ain't no such thing as green when the dope man free
You got that A.D.D. so you smoke that weed
You tired of feeling oppressed so you kneel on one knee
Because the system is not clean, freeze freeze
That's all we really hear when we walk down the streets
We try to do right because we was born to be kings
The battles not finish so distress won't leave
Inhale breathe, break, run, leave
It's not what it seems it's your body tryna feed
Off the medicated meal you don't never see spill
All over your dresser like them medicaid pills
Death on your shoulder with odor stronger then saurus
Terrorized by the people with symbols and different orders
With sickness flooding the radio, radiating scenarios
Hello death to America, digital burial, RQ your area
Convoluting the meaning of life and changing your stereo
Zombified by the chemical snake that's loaded with venom
Convoluting the meaning of life and changing your stereo
Zombified by the chemical snake that's loaded with venom
City of metamorphosis thriller fluffing your pillow
Reinforce new killers still sucking on mamilla
Surviving, running and covered in armor like armadillo
Camouflaging emotions that's fatter than caterpillars
Flying with no direction not knowing they dying reckless
Digesting the pain, the fear, the hate, the drugs
Sacrificing our blood, while characterize as thugs
Monopolize the game
False teaching they preaching
Misleading the people with myths to not believing
But leaving like flying eagles
Like the gangs and leaders
Artists that was funded sold their souls and called it even
Now eating their own demons
Pretending they don't see it
Contracted by people with money that had the privileges
To live in high class
Holding all the billions from the health care plans
Student loans and all the prisons
As a safety net just incase the Lord reveals them
He's been flagged, hold up record this
Trying to press us and hoping we acting like adolescents
So they can shoot us and give em reason like he was moving
And I told em stop, but he wouldn't
Regardless if he couldn't
Cuz in the back off his mind its either dying or booking
Be careful how looking now days we all thugs right
Rather baggy or skinny them jeans just don't fit right
Yeah we the issue at hand
But I description of man shouldn't be build by the man
Only if you understand
A suit and tie was only when people died
Or when you would go to church
So how can you prove my worth
With the clothes that purchase
And the things that I know like
Retail price is bout double they paid for them clothes
Well I know
Life is only for the rich and not the poor
Quantity over quality is the new way to go
Its no hope for the average person
Your either stagnant or your situation worsens
You fiending for that dollar you need it to scratch the surface
And if it all crash then everyone's getting nervous
Chip em, we all up in the system of life now
It's rather you comply or fight and get laid down
It's simple choice
We all up in the system of life now
It's rather you comply or fight and get laid down
It's simple choice especially if you got some kids right now
And if you don't, strait away cuz homey its getting wild
And just that's real spit, yeah

You got all these gifts but you gave yourself nada
Dressed up like a baller but your pockets full of dollars
Fake to you make it was the word from your mama
So you cold in the summer, now your hard in the winter
This is not ghetto dreams, this is more like a scene
Ain't no such thing as green when the dope man free
You got that A.D.D. so you smoke that weed
You tired of feeling oppressed so you kneel on one knee
Because the system is not clean, freeze freeze
That's all we really hear when we walk down the streets
We try to do right because we was born to be kings
The battles not finish so distress won't leave
Inhale breathe, break, run, leave
It's not what it seems it's your body tryna feed
Off the medicated meal you don't never see spill
All over your dresser like them medicaid pills
Death on your shoulder with odor stronger then saurus
Terrorized by the people with symbols and different orders
With sickness flooding the radio, radiating scenarios
Hello death to America, digital burial, RQ your area
Convoluting the meaning of life and changing your stereo
Zombified by the chemical snake that's loaded with venom
Convoluting the meaning of life and changing your stereo
Zombified by the chemical snake that's loaded with venom
City of metamorphosis thriller fluffing your pillow
Reinforce new killers still sucking on mamilla
Surviving, running and covered in armor like armadillo
Camouflaging emotions that's fatter than caterpillars
Flying with no direction not knowing they dying reckless
Digesting the pain, the fear, the hate, the drugs
Sacrificing our blood, while characterize as thugs
Monopolize the game
False teaching they preaching
Misleading the people with myths to not believing
But leaving like flying eagles
Like the gangs and leaders
Artists that was funded sold their souls and called it even
Now eating their own demons
Pretending they don't see it
Contracted by people with money that had the privileges
To live in high class
Holding all the billions from the health care plans
Student loans and all the prisons
As a safety net just incase the Lord reveals them
He's been flagged, hold up record this
Trying to press us and hoping we acting like adolescents
So they can shoot us and give em reason like he was moving
And I told em stop, but he wouldn't
Regardless if he couldn't
Cuz in the back off his mind its either dying or booking
Be careful how looking now days we all thugs right
Rather baggy or skinny them jeans just don't fit right
Yeah we the issue at hand
But I description of man shouldn't be build by the man
Only if you understand
A suit and tie was only when people died
Or when you would go to church
So how can you prove my worth
With the clothes that purchase
And the things that I know like
Retail price is bout double they paid for them clothes
Well I know
Life is only for the rich and not the poor
Quantity over quality is the new way to go
Its no hope for the average person
Your either stagnant or your situation worsens
You fiending for that dollar you need it to scratch the surface
And if it all crash then everyone's getting nervous
Chip em, we all up in the system of life now
It's rather you comply or fight and get laid down
It's simple choice
We all up in the system of life now
It's rather you comply or fight and get laid down
It's simple choice especially if you got some kids right now
And if you don't, strait away cuz homey its getting wild
And just that's real spit, yeah