Exodus

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The Lord said to Moses
Who gave human beings their mouths
Who makes them deaf or mute
Who gives them sight or makes them blind
Is it not I, the Lord?
Now go I will help you speak
And will teach you what to say
When I was a shorty
I was a junior deacon at a baptist church
And they'd always tell me
Son, you gon be a preacher one day
I can see it now every Sunday
You up there in the pulpit
And I was like, um, okay, bullshit
See, I know the goal of every human is to become
That which we were put on earth to become
It is to align to our highest selves bar none
So when I finished the last track
I realized that in order to make an impact
You gotta find something the world needs and fill it
Problems solved, the realness
Is that the world don't need more rap
So I resolved to myself to speak
Nothing but facts over this boom bap
Now you can call me
The Good Reverend Doctor Hip Hopper
Often, we only want the good things in life
We want to forward fast through the rough patch
Or even skip the ringer altogether
Cause ain't nobody got time for bad weather
It's elitist to only want the sunshine
It's unrealistic to demand Good Vibes Only
My favorite teacher, well
my homie Lola called it spiritual bypassing
When you got unresolved trauma or wounds
But use spiritual concepts and terms
To avoid doing the real work and sidestep the germs
It's like how we idolize and celebrate celebrities
When they on top and shining
But let them make one mistake
One slip up, one small fall from grace
Canceled
On the way to work, we hope it's no traffic
And if the path happens to be jammed up
We be like dammit, why me, for real hurt
As if we like our jobs on any other day
Than the fifteenth and the first, word
A lot of what's passed off as truth
Sounds like lies to me
But you know what
I've accepted my inner skeptic
Truth is, we've come to live in an on demand society
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Lose 30 pounds now
Get rich now
Become an overnight sensation
Enter your email address to find out how
To get 20 thou
Followers from one post
My spam folder be doing the most
Plus the fine print say these results
Are not typical
And that experience may vary
Depending on the individual
Even Jesus, if that was his real name
More on that later
Had his lost years and nobody knows from whence he tarried
Buddha was able to reach enlightenment only after leaving the palace
And seeing suffering
He must've been like
Yo, this can't be the full picture
I ask myself, would there have been a Malcolm X
If not for a Detroit Red before him
And how many Detroit Red's pick up a mic and glamorize they life
Flipside, how many Malcolm X's are presently going unsupported
Much is made of discovery
But little is said about the moment
One first commits to exploring
I ask myself, am I afraid to set sail without a course
On the real, it ain't no map for this shit
If anything, it be hella forks in the road
Should I stop and take a break or push through
We spend a whole lot of time glued to the screens
Scrolling and being bombarded with images of peeps
That appear to be successful, on the surface at least
We're constantly inundated with messages
About how we should look and speak
What we should be doing
What to think, how we should dress
The exodus from these external messes
Is to stare deeply into your reflection
In a world that tries to make everybody else
Like everybody else
It is revolutionary to say I am!
I was, I will be
But for right now I am, I am, I am

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