What Is Real Lyrics

What Is Real by Akala

• Will you you talk about being from the hood, like we're glad
• Wear it proud, like it's a badge
• But I'll be damned if, when I'm a dad my kids don't have more than I had
• Please don't confuse your situation, with identity, it's not the same thing
• You were pharaohs and scholars, long before the day you were armed robbers
• But, whatever, it's dumb to be clever, better to act like your brains been severed
• Like these Americans so called “artists” boasting about their latest garments
• But the same labels make it very clear, they don't make clothes for dark skin
• Can't you see they're laughing? The question that I'm asking
• Real
• Is it real, really?
• Now is it real really?
• Real
• Is it real, really? (Is it real really?)
• I doubt it's real really
• Real
• Is it real, really? (dolla dolla bill y'all)
• Now is it real really?
• Real
• Is it real, really?
• I doubt it's real really. (uh, get money)
• Pop champagne got my chain, act like you got no brain
• Pop champagne got my chain, act like you got no brain
• Pop champagne got your chain, act like you got no brain!
• Come on let's pop champagne!
• Come on let's pop champagne!
• Sorry, if I don't dance enough for the radio to play my stuff
• And got no girls in the video playing the city ho loco shakin' their butts
• I thought that rap was about content, I see now that's just nonsense
• We judge MC's by the Bentleys, and how much they can have no conscience
• How many chains can you wear, and not care, the cost was a village somewhere
• Stones of begets, slowly forget, this ain't the first time there were chains on your neck
• It was much worse, choose to accept, but now vexed, just perplexed
• Of course that's all us people do all day, is pop champagne and have sex!
• Why am I lying, I can't stand it, Chip on my shoulders the size of a planet!
• I organic on the mike and the flames I will fan it
• To burn down the galaxy I'm up to the challenge
• Burn down the fallacy, scorch it with talent
• Burn down the anarchy, restore the balance
• I am the war with New York to Paris
• No fun now around me, I'm far too savage
• Yeah, hittin with knowledge, 'cuz we import it, ignoramus
• You're playin' the stereotype, so of course you're famous
• If for just one second you took your head from out your anus
• You would see the motivation for your elevation
• What is real?
• Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
• What is real?
• Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
• What is real?
• Or is it something that I can truly feel?
• Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
• What is real?
• What is real?
• Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
• What is real?
• Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
• What is real?
• Or is it something that I can truly feel?
• Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
• What is real?
• Still, I got love for you, though it's very clear that you hate yourself
• I'm just saying don't food for the crap, being from the ghetto don't make you more black
• Also the fact: this is bigger than the color of your skin
• It's a matter that we're all in
• Dumber you act, the bigger the cheer
• The bigger the fool, the bigger career
• It's about playing a role, the educated can't be controlled
• It's about playing a role, the educated can't be controlled
• So by keeping yourself dumb, keeping yourself under the thumb
• By keeping yourself dumb, keeping yourself under the thumb
• (Feeding your face on the foods that are?) dumb, keeping yourself eating the crumbs
• Elevating some fool with a gun, keeping ourselves numb
• So we can fit in in a world where the price of life is less than the cost of living
• So we can fit in in a world where the price of life is less than the cost of living
• Have you forgotten what is real?
• Close your eyes and don't believe that all you see is all you feel
• Got few tattoos, few bullet wounds? Silly songs? Deliver the tunes?
• That tattoo may as well say coon, may as well grunt just like a baboon
• That's what people see when they look at me, 
• though they may applaud my stupidity
• It's like sharks in a shark tank, watch them tear each other apart
• Find the sharks entertaining, but that don't mean that we think they're smart
• Or are for that matter, you maybe call yourself a rapper
• Disrespect women, but, but you are the one who is a slapper
• You get paid to degrade yourself, publicly castrate yourself
• What is real?
• Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
• What is real?
• Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
• What is real?
• Or is it something that I can truly feel?
• Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
• What is real?
• What is real?
• Is it how much you make in the dollar bills?
• What is real?
• Is it how many you say you're gonna kill?
• What is real?
• Or is it something that I can truly feel?
• Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
• What is real?
• We all play our positions, convinced that we are so different
• Accept these doctrines, and this nonsense, and we take these options
• Without one second, never questioning just what the cost is
• You're not a hater, you can't relate to the lowest denominator, dominator!
• No, I don't wanna read the Source, I'd rather read some of Plato's thoughts
• Of course, let us not ever forget, the place in which where he was taught
• So if it ain't clear, none of these clown rappers could be my peers
• It's philosophical, historical, speculations that I thought were rhetorical
• Like what's real, is it my face if an atom is nothing but empty space?
• Why the rock feel solid when I'm on it and a comet could collide with the Earth and dislodge it?
• Or maybe sonnets, metaphoric, promises the tonic for all that (is chronic?)
• Illness, apathy, ignorance tapestry that they weave to turn us into batteries
• What is real?
• What is real?
• What is real?
• Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
• What is real?
• Please tell me, please tell me, please tell me
• What is real?
• Have you forgotten what is real?
• Close your eyes and don't believe that all you see is all you feel

Lyrics taken from UndergroundHH, check out our full database of Akala Lyrics.