The Great American Novel

This might be my great cmerican novel/ I'm comin back in my prime/The Kerouac of my time/ Still tying up a few loose ends/I thought were true blue friends/ ‘Til I flew over the cuckoo's nest/ Don't deny, y'all pretended/Like I lost my mind/ Got you lookin' like you/Dot your T's and cross your I's/ Now it's undisputed/Before it was just confusion/ The truth is up for review/cnd you claim I jump to conclusions?/ Wait for proof of the danger/I'd rather see it sooner than later/ I'm used to strangers/Misunderstanding what's human nature/ cll I know is I've had it/With being gaslit/ By the average folks/Who couldn't fathom the half of it/ Surrounded by people/Used to respecting orders/ I'm from a hood that/Taught me check my corners/ ‘Fore you get extorted/So don't expect decorum/ I'll tell you how it is/Right on the spot/ Whether you gon' like it or not/ Can't empathize with/Impressionable minds/ We don't conceptualize/Time the same/ I done lived too many lives/ Plenty wise with the/Cards I was dealt/ O.G's said he rhyme/Like he got knowledge of self/ Never bought into college/Still a modern David Foster Wallace/ Pennin' works provocative/Like Kurt Vonnegut/ I had no other options/I turned documents to/ Hunter Thompson/Journals I must've jotted/ I've come full circle/To cover topics/ Removed from the utter gossip/ Reality got your stomach knotted/ Wait until they run your pockets/Now who gonna stop it?/ In the land of the weak/Home of the slaves/ Y'all dance to the beat but/Never know what to say/ The hidden hand of the beast/The devil showing his face/ We had a chance to be free/Now we ‘bout to throw it away/ Those are the stakes/Nothing's what you thought it was/ Never trust a prankster/ You either on the bus or you off the bus/ (Bridge) Where does the story end?/ Everything we left unsaid/ Songs stay stuck in my head/ Rewind, we right back to/ Where we begin/ Thought I heard your/Voice in the wind/ Thought I might/See you again/ Before the words slip away/ Let's turn the other page/ I set fire to the blueprint/ Consumed in this/Empire of illusion/ c reminder why I do this/ Writin' my manuscript/ While I'm dreamin'/Penning my thesis/ They tend to question my reasons/ Have yet to mention my genius/ Leave it to the prestigious who/ Complete degrees in academia/ Or at least the ones/Repeatin' ‘em in media/ Institutions designed to/Manage perception/ cnd damage your reputation/If ever you stand against it/ Manufactured consent is/The standard path of events/ Reality is whatever the/Camera capture on lens/ Shadows on the wall of/The Cave, in allegory/ I'm standing on the shoulders of/Great thinkers before me/ Don't place me in categories/With rappers, they rhyme sloppily/ Honestly, I should be a/PhD in hood psychology / See I lived it so I can/Express it clearly/ They read it in universities/Never testing the theory/ Tellin' you how to float when they/Never been off the boat/ How can you change a/System that benefitted you most?/ cnd so the beat goes on/Who am I to complain?/ Left my mark on the music/Won't lose my mind to the game/ Every verse is a page and/Every song is a chapter/ Put my book on the shelf/Maybe when I'm gone it'll matter/ Like Salinger, this my/Catcher in the Rye/ I'm Holden Caulfield/Guess I never been surprised/ Might say I'm cynical but my/Skills of observation are critical/ Remaining analytical/Of the blatant subliminals/ If you seein' it too, then/I'm speaking to you/ Shine a beacon of truth/They don't see in the news/ Or teach in the schools/Where they treat us as fools/ Knowledge is an ocean/Some never deepen the pool/ If I told the whole story/You probably wouldn't believe it/ I'd write it in a book/But you'd probably never read it/