EXTRA EXTRA, the world is pretty messed up
Gotta empathize with a country that’s playing catch up
California burning, pandemic pushing deaths up
Don’t let em tell you bad times’ll never let up
EXTRA EXTRA, the world is pretty messed up
If we can’t fix it together it will ingest us
Rain forests burning, riot cops wanna oppress us
We finna take the planet back and never let up
KHEMMETA:
“Local rapper vows to drop 12 EPs"
I’ll believe it when i see it, inhale release
Don’t hold that breath! He might hold for cheese
Let’s peruse some good news overseas
UAE and Israel formally gon play nice
While the West Bank stays under they knife
Belarus protests election, Hong Kong postpones election
….Can’t relate! What’s good stateside?
Today the news says Herman Cain’s in black capitalist hell
So everything's okay, and all must be well
I mean, that wasn't the spin, just my humblest O
Now, “Many people are saying” you know how the rest go
In electoral news, every issue’s distraction
From whichever one i happen to be ready to bat with
Like are Dems leaning left, are the People’s crazed?
Warren ain’t the pick, billionaires should be ok!
Extree extree the president is messy
Said his opposition's pick is nastier than Hep C
He just thirsty, someone get this man a Pepsi
Old Obama logo got him livid seeing red screen
New management, at the USPS
The guy’s wife, got millions, in XPS
The guy’s boss wants election bets hedged, and the mail is slowing
Down while the Rona’s hogging hospital beds
Already passed a hundred thousand dead
They’re reopening schools, I guess caution unamerican
Two hundred thousand’s looking like the estimate
For where this all might go before we finish the election
Every headline’s like, “it’s a mess, what you expected?”
In other news, “water is wet”
If you’re breathing and you hear me, we both gotta be best
Abolish ICE and the rest of the DHS
EXTRA EXTRA, the world is pretty messed up
Gotta empathize with a country that’s playing catch up
California burning, pandemic pushing deaths up
Don’t let em tell you bad times’ll never let up
EXTRA EXTRA, the world is pretty messed up
If we can’t fix it together it will ingest us
Rainforests burning, riot cops wanna oppress us
We finna take the planet back and never let up
WIG:
EXTRA EXTRA, Wig and Khemmeta
That ain't news, we been killin shit forever
When we done, they take the beat out on a stretcher
And at the risk of sounding like a broken record
EXTRA EXTRA, the president doesn't care cuz
COVID deaths are the highest in America
Among the people he really wasn't put here for
So take your asses to the beach and get your haircuts
Send your kids to school but don't prepare stuff
It's not like children get each other sick very much
EXTRA EXTRA, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
Murdered by the state with minor effort
Cuz white society was taught to feel terror
When they see the skin that I see in the mirror
And white supremacist structures we just inherit
So we get tainted for tryna change or come near em
EXTRA EXTRA, sources say, Wig in the zone
in album mode, cooking "August Botellita"
I heard he on his "Double Up", Mason Betha
Releasing stress as he retires from the pressure
Picking spirituality over cheddar
Karen Bass shoulda been Veep, but, whatever
EXTRA EXTRA,
Black women in America still have to meetthe highest standards ever
So now I gotta defend Kamala Harris
She's the human sacrifice and we're the scarab
They got their propaganda machine revved up
So it's a coupla lies I gotta tear up
Marajuanna convictions plummeted in her tenure
As DA and AG, remember
Back on Track was before it's time, and when her
Chance for higher office came, they used the fact
That she refused to seek the death penalty against her
Activist parents told her infiltrate the system
She probably got tarnished while doing that mission
But in the Senate
She pushed bail reform and demanded the First Step Act was strengthened
EXTRA EXTRA
Mike Pence thinks training police on implicit bias is "offensive"
Trump's people gave Consent Decrees an ending
EXTRA EXTRA
There's a reason the same folks wanna turn the rest of us against her.
EXTRA EXTRA, the world is pretty messed up
Gotta empathize with a country that’s playing catch up
California burning, pandemic pushing deaths up
Don’t let em tell you bad times’ll never let up
EXTRA EXTRA, the world is pretty messed up
If we can’t fix it together it will ingest us
Rain forests burning, riot cops wanna oppress us
We finna take the planet.
credits
from The House by the Riverside,
released August 21, 2020
Lyrics written and performed by Khemmeta and WiG.
Recorded by Khemmeta and Crossword.
Beat by Crossword.
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