Promise Land - Rapper Big Pooh, Apollo Brown

They swear niggas win when they sin the most

Temporarily be the toast

Guns and butter on what matters the least, watch them overdose

Let them hang, nigga, hang by their gold ropes

Smoke dope until you’re comatose, no hope

For that butter, niggas die broke, third eye woke

Poke holes in the American dream, run out of options

Made it easy, you can hustle and scheme but one problem

They’re building private prisons just to house niggas

For cheap labor, that’s why, nigga

They call it PIC, it’s not a club, but you’re VIP

Series of numbers that replace your ID

Home of the cowardly, freedom ain’t free

The revolution won’t be shown on TV

We’re too busy watching fake reality, you see

What goes up comes down

Dog chase tail, go 'round and 'round

We all hypnotized when we hear the sounds

Ever seen a clown with a smile that was upside down

You see it

They swear we going to the promise land (right)

They swear they better than the better man (right)

We need to get our shit together man (right)

Probably listening like, whatever man

They swear niggas be killing when they’re just killing

Waking up every morning, hollow, no feeling

You hear the rap, money stack, how it touch the ceiling

Got to tell my nephews, they really have a ceiling

That’s to be honest, you ain’t getting everything that’s promised

40 acres and a mule, right, work so they can take

Cost of living tax 'til your back break

No grass, but you’re still missing the snakes, til they slither on you

Who tired of looking at the middle man

The one on top, so he devised a plan

And who too busy thinking promised land

Then realize the real lies pinpoint the scam

Shooting the messenger, that’s only part of our conditioning

They keep trying to tell us but we’re not listening

You want to hide it, put it in a book

They want to hide it, put it on a corner, watch it cook, you see it

What goes up comes down

Dog chase tail, go 'round and 'round

We all hypnotized when we hear the sounds

Ever seen a clown with a smile that was upside down

You see it

They swear we going to the promise land (right)

They swear they better than the better man (right)

We need to get our shit together man (right)

Probably listening like, whatever man