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Begging For Change (featuring Ricky Pharoe)

from Corroded Utopia (2010) by Eastern Sunz

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Travis T
Lives hang in the balance, a fallacy is all it is,
a high stakes game played with currency and politics.
New World disorder, anarchy, and chaos,
everything will fall, and it's all because of payoffs.
The one's controlling Washington is blatantly obvious,
the K Street mafia, AKA the lobbyists.
The lesser of two evils is still evil,
pay close enough attention and the mask is still see through.

Courage
No transparency, choices made behind closed doors,
like fuck a vote, bitch we going to war.
They’re dropping bombs on the poor, black people, bloody far away shores,
then kick back, have a drink, and watch the stock market soar.
That's why these rappers pretty soft at the core,
claim they keeping it real, but peep the issues that they'd rather ignore.
She told me rap just aint the same anymore, it's all garbage,
and boils down to money took it's heart and soul hostage.

Ricky Pharoe
I make make money, they take take from me,
jack me and tax me, and wonder why I’m hungry.
Fuck that, I’ll come back and hijack your Humvee,
then drive it through the White House front doors, fuck me.
No I mean fuck you, hello Mr. President,
I got a couple debts to collect, so get up and settle it.
It’s so effortless the way they dig a deficit,
and live inside a palace telling me to feel the fellowship.
What, motherfuck AIG, you need to bail my ass out, I’m on EBT.
You need twenty-five cars while I starve,
and you still have the nerve to go charge me an overdraft fee?
Barack Obama, change to believe in,
wish I could believe, but I have no reason.
Pretty soon you’ll be begging for the change though,
spare change bitch, yeah I hope you brought a raincoat.

Courage
We strive to keep it moving, view this world through many lenses,
deontological, consequentialist.
Got fake niggas looking at me pensive,
like intellectuals up in the game somehow offensive.
Shit, I'd rather see a doctor or a dentist,
that represent the hood with some skills that's comprehensive.
Fashion show, petty shit is the consensus,
and niggas flatlining cause the price tag was expensive.

Travis T
Vital signs stable, label me pretentious,
in a maze with six million ways that we can end this.
Look at me, such a good little worker bee,
keep the system running so the queen can get the honey.
There is no god, there is no country,
pray to profit, pledge allegiance to money.
Ignore the poor, the sick, tired, and hungry,
put more in the budget for war, isn't it lovely?

credits

from Corroded Utopia (2010), track released June 1, 2010
Featuring Ricky Pharoe
Produced By Smoke
Scratches By DJ Flip Flop

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Eastern Sunz provide a fresh take on sociopolitical issues which has landed them the Independent Music Award for Album of the Year, the Eco Arts Awards Grand Prize, first place in the International Songwriting Competition, and the John Lennon songwriting contest grand prize. ... more

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