[Kanye West]
We got this new thing called “Cla**ism”. It's racism's cousin. This is what we do to hold people back. This is what we do. And we got this other thing that's also been working for a long time where you don't have to be racist anymore it's called “Self-Hate”. It works on itself. It's like real estate of racism. Where, just like that, when someone comes up and says something like “I am a god”, everybody says “Who does he think he is?” I just told you who I thought I was, a god!
[Verse ]
My father was raised in an era when
Just to eat he had to pick his occupation
Born here you would have thought we'd dream bigger
Become anything we want instead we reinforce the system
See there's 3rd world cla**ism – that's “Do what we say cuz you're poor”
And there's 1st world cla**ism – that's that “Come sell out your soul”
“What you want, some money? A title? Access and fame?”
“Please take ours, we love diversity!”
But it ain't really freedom, if you choose to obey
Upgrading your chains but never causing change
New $laves
[Bridge]
You see there's real change and there's tokens
But I'd rather be myself than beholden
You see there's real change and there's tokens
But I'd rather be myself than beholden