Ishues - Read Between The Lines lyrics

(Movie Sample) Think about it... Think about it, and understand it. Do understand it (Chorus 2x) Read between the lines, everything seems fine But our rapid decline is a sign of the times Most of us is scared of revolution Thats why we strap up the Glock, go on the block and we dont care who we be shooting (Verse 1) The world is a ghetto Politicians pull strings like Geppetto Cops k**, but still the court case gets settled Little kids peddle dope on the streets, like its a hobby Cause Moms lives in the building with fiends all in the lobby Somebody called the preacher, and asked him for his blessings It probably cost you some cash, when they pa**ed the plate for collections Only lessons teachers taught me in school was propaganda And the picture of Jesus nailed on the cross, of course its slander This land was built on corruption, murder and lies Thats why every president had some sort of murderous ties So I despise what you teach me, despise you completely You can always see defeat in the eyes of the weakling Over half the population of blacks today are Christian And Christianity was the product of constant whipping Cause they said that we were savages, so our values they took em The majority of the slaves that they traded here was m**m So do they hide the truth from us, or are we just too scared to look They say the truth is safe from n***as in books Because we dont read, so we dont really know our history Yeah thats the type of sh** that gets to me (Chorus 2x) (Verse 2) I listen to Immortal Technique, when he speak he make a lot of sense The record business is just as crooked as any politics Thats why you hear a lot of rap n***as talking that nonsense Its the grand plan to keep our people stuck in bondage Slaves to the rings, slaves to the chains, slaves to the reins Most of these rappers is slaves to the game Getting sodomized, just to wear some platinum and be idolized When they whole entire life is itemized The revolution won't be televised Cause the television's only use is just for telling lies, to keep us confused Cause confusion's easy to rule, so they use TVs as tools To warp the minds of the youth so they grow up as fools Over eighty percent of African Americans dont even know they heritage And they dont think this knowledge is imperative Thats why you see more babies and less marriages No change, because the arrogance has been inherited right from our parents And its carried over into our seeds, so when they sprout up as trees They dont know who to believe, its a disease And its called ignorance, and its highly contagious And it gets worse over the ages (Chorus 2x) (Verse 3) I write the songs that you don't wanna hear The songs that DJ's dont be playing on the air The songs that's gonna make my people wanna care The songs that real heads bang in their Discman's and stereos The songs that fortify you with nutritious values like Cheerios The songs thats underground, like seismic prints that make the thunder sound And shake the ground for miles around and cause buildings to crumble down That jungle sound, that ruggedness, that n***as nod their heads to The type of music that'll make the police try and dead you Son, I wouldn't kid you, I'm a hip-hop fanatic I ?? up on music like Edutainment and Illmatic So that wack sh** you can have it, radio-friendly garbage You caught picking off somebody and callin yourself an artist? I be starving, for a sellout just to keep up with the ?? Everybody is biting, nobody knows when it started 50 different songs about the same thing on the radio What happened to the basic concept of being original? Its pitiful, because hip-hop has influenced our culture These little kids look at the videos and hang the posters Our time is getting short, our final days are coming closer Its time to bring this age of ignorance to a closure (Chorus 2x) (Ishues interview -- beat fades to end)