Kanye's critics

Folk fired up 'bout four hundred years;
but last week's unpublished injustice
gets no tears.
What's more - ain't no outrage over what's right now
but so offended when some unrelated shit goes down.
Pick and choose from popular choices
to legitimize your conscience
to popular voices
then criticize perspectives
that don't ego stroke
epitomizing the pretentious -
your logic's a joke.

I realize your identity ain't your own
but borrowed from a narrative
that was etched in stone
so you can read it
and believe it
but you ain't grown
cuz you still got your eyes on
somebody else's throne.

Damned, giving up on heaven
to rule in hell,
your mind infected with their lessons;
You hear the bell?
And when I ask you bout your story,
the one you tell,
how come it sounds just like that script
that they always sell?"

©05.03.2018