Hopeless Generation (feat. Jay Bales)

Disappointed I was born within this generation Where the homeless sleep on sidewalks near a spot that's vacant I pray that all my peers can build a good foundation My morals set in stone but not my expectations Niggas out here dodgin bullets we not in the matrix Then we wake up and see footage of the altercation And they a post a dead body with no hesitation And never think about the families when they post and share it Then the media debate it spark up conversation And just because they sold a story they want compensation We turn to isolation when outside seem dangerous But Pop Smoke was in the crib when his life was taken They say I got an old soul I'm tryin to embrace it And still remain consistent when the trends have faded Havin deja vu bout different times and places But I don't even believe in reincarnation To the people came before me I drew inspiration The cloth that y'all are cut from seems like fabrication Yeah I'm grateful we ain't fightin shit like segregation I'm just pissed that I'm apart this hopeless generation The writing is on the wall I hope we don't crumble and fall You can't even tell me I'm wrong We're cut from a different cloth This hopeless generation This hopeless generation This generation's going to take more than some thoughts and prayers We look soft on the outside but let's peel back the layers Covid during college made Zoom second nature But it made it hard for us to love thy neighbor Twitter and Tiktok became our new newspaper No wonder all these kids want to be content creators Hunnid grand out of college that be the debt we payin Then company's offering to pay minimum wages Old heads and boomers got the nerve to call us lazy But we just know our worth somebody tell them bout inflation 15 dollars in the 80s more than 50 now But they don't want to give us raises that shit trips me out Our first election we watched dumb and dumber face each other Country polarized as when north and south faced each other Had to protest for our sisters while they killed our brothers Trynna discover ourself while we go through this struggle Everybody go through shit but it seems like we been through more You don't got to win every battle make sure you win the war Then when you look back later at the moments you had to endure Peel back some of those layers we the strongest at the core The writing is on the wall I hope we don't crumble and fall You can't even tell me I'm wrong We're cut from a different cloth This hopeless generation This hopeless generation