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caterpillar (logic version cover)
- Yeah, sold a quarter million records in my first week
- And BET still don't wanna let me perform
- Maybe it's 'cause my pigment, maybe I'm being ignant
- Maybe it's all a figment of my imagination
- And exaggeration exacerbates that I'm the illest, yes
- How many are willing to kill us?
- We the realest, that's why they feel us the best
- But I don't give a fuck about this rap shit, not really though
- Shittin' on a brother I should love, man, that's silly, yo
- Fuck all this division and lyrical incision
- It's time to unify cause hip hop is beautiful, it's you and I
- And it doesn't discriminate if you black or white
- And you Christian or Muslim
- It just love 'em and put nothin' above 'em
- I just want to be remembered as a good person
- Dispersin' a message of hope while the world worsen
- And the media will still find a way
- To turn us into clickbait and misquote
- Wanna keep the peace, but if you do that
- I'ma slit throats, sike, nah
- "Logic's such a hypocrite", you can take a hike, nah
- Right now, I'm here to talk about suicide and depression
- Anxiety, mental health and all that other shit
- You scared to mention
- Yeah, I could talk about the millions I've amassed
- But now just ain't the time or place
- It's crazy how everyone so obsessed with my race
- Cause I'm proud to be black, but matter fact
- If it was flipped around and every time somebody asked me
- What it was like to be a white rapper
- "What's it like to be a white rapper, Logic?"
- Oh and I was just like, just never talked about it like
- "Man, it's just so great being a white rapper
- White, white, white, white everything
- White man—being white's so great—wow it's so great"
- And then some brother was like, "Ayy, ain't yo daddy black?!"
- And I was like "Oh shit!"
- And the whole world be like "What, are you scared to be black?
- Are you ashamed to be black?! Motherfucker, fuck you!
- Fuck you, you piece of shit, mixed, biracial, fucking cunt"
- (That's how they be)
- Cole said fuck all this black and white, it's time to unite
- Be who you are, identify as a star
- Fuck all the jewelry and money inside of yo car
- You still just a person and I'm still dispersin' these lyrics
- Fuck the rap ego shit, just be a good person now that's the spirit
- Shoutout to true emcees that love the culture
- From Duckworth to Chano, Jermaine and Joey
- And Aubrey and can't forget Bobby
- To every emcee who knows that this is truly a way of life
- And not just a hobby, uh, not just a hobby, uh
- Not just a hobby, this is a way of life
- Shout out to Bobby, the L O G I C, this shit a way of life
- This shit a way of life, yeah
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