The learning burn

Preserve flows like an urn

Other folks had their shot, it’s my turn

Classic Mobb Deep, my mob deep and we creep

Straight from the streets of the hood in Southeast

DC, home of the sloppy dreams

Where the words “#allcaps” don’t represent a hockey team

Grand Washington Wizard occupies 16

Still rock the name of a racist football team

Jockey dreams, trap brothers and broke teens

Gentrification, still killin’ dreams

Triple beam pay like $1.15

Freakonomic ebonic brother, the flow’s clean

Can’t say the same for water up in Flint, MI

Where government intentionally watched folks die

Drank ‘em to death, whole towns nothin’ left

Glad they changed the gov cause homey was tone def

Speakin’ of dyin’, dunno why they keep lyin’

Shootin’ our brothers down unarmed too many cryin’

And sisters too, get it as bad as we do

For every Sandra bland that never made the news

Yo we got you too, never forget you

Cause #blacklivesmatter #timesup #metoo

And forget Cosby, watchin’ him was my hobby

But when you disrespect a woman you get kicked out the lobby

Or get bodied, we gotta have higher standards

Let me make it clear so you overstand, word

Ya heard, lyrically I’m flippin’ birds

To anyone defendin’ rapists and drugging herbs

Cosby, Weinstein, Kevin Spacey yo

Shout out to Tarana and Lupita Nyong’o

And all those who found the courage to come forward

And other silent victims still looking for words

I’m bringin’ havoc, I told y’all it’s the learnin’

I’m a standup for anybody out their yearnin’

For a day when we don’t care for what a predator’s earnin’

And care more for the victims still cryin’ and hurtin’

So if you’re heart lurkin’ and somehow stopped workin’

Hear my now and help us all stop the burnin’

Yeah it burns deep when the world don’t believe you

And money makin’ media keep wantin’ to deceive you

They just care about ratings and clicks, what up Moonves

Bout to make a midnight run but I ain’t Nunes

More like Fabian or Ocasio-Cortes

New voice need no roscoe to rock flows breth-

-ren, I go hard like Bushmaster

I’m a hard man fi dead you gon’ feel the rapture

Wildfires, floods, crazy natural disasters

Like the world’s comin’ to an end but it don’t have ta

If we show the world good sermons don’t preach ’em

If each one grab one and just teach ‘em

We’ll see how quick the tide can suddenly turn

Like switching the learning burn to the burning learn

It’s OD, don’t act like you don’t know me,

Next prodigy on the flow the one and only

I’m an upstander, I will never stand by

Think you can shut the people down don’t even try

Bye!