The New Drug

[Intro: Kari Epps]
*Vocalization*
Mmm
Oh oh ooo
Ah Ah mm
Yeah

[Verse 1: Young Noble & Kari Epps]
Damn, are we really that fucked up?
It's like these social media the new drug
Got us caught up in the gossip and nonsense
Ya own people they gon' scroll pass your progress
Maybe even hit like, but he really hate it
Why niggas hate to see another nigga make it?
Damn, it's like the pain, we embrace it
Killin' our own kind for a chain and a bracelet
Gotta watch for the homies and the police
Maybe when I'm gone I can find pеace
Man ain't no love in thesе streets
They wait to show love when you no longer breathin'
This ain't how it's meant to be
Doin' the devils dirty work
We our own worst enemies
Young black kings, we gotta break the chains
Even in this present day it's like we still slaves
To a dollar, yeah, we all tryin' to get paid
Break bread with the devil now the deals made
They sellin' poison in the music, but they bills paid
Afraid for these kids and future decades
Only god can clean up this mess we made
We still prayin' for them better days
We need to get back to what's important
Instead of helpin' they gon' stand around recordin'
On my death bed, these grown men is breastfed
Scared of the truth, e'ybody so sensitive (We're all scared)Just look around at the way we live
And how we treat each other, supposed to be my brother
The number one disease called jealousy
It's not that they don't like what I'm doin' they don't like that it's me
They told me I changed, nigga I had to
You don't know the half of what I've been through
They wanna catch my last breath, put it on youtube
Nobody cares, they just want the likes or views (Nobody cares)
This is what society has come to
Ain't nowhere to hide, nowhere to run to (Oh)
Just another dead nigga, like it's nothin new
Just another head line on the evening news (Ooh oh)
Should have watched how I moved, I had a lot to lose
Closin' my eyes I pray you see my point of view

[Outro: Kari Epps]
*Vocalization*
Can you take it back
Ohhh
Let's get back
To the place
Where we used to be
Oh
Let's get back
To the way
That we used to be
Ahh Ohh