GOTHAM (Explicit)

I think that we're headed down the wrong road I swear
Fake's real and they say real's fake woke you see this
False prophets on these screens everywhere we go
But what did you expect when dumb people got smartphones
More memes cool make it all a big joke
Crown your fake kings and let
Them sit up on your fake thrones
You're young now but just wait
Until you grow old
When life gets real you'll remember all these words I wrote
I went roaming walked multiple ways
For 40 nights 40 sleeps yes
Multiple days I tried
In the desert no food water
Searching for the answers
But you listen to these people
Who got nothing to say
You wouldn't listen
You wouldn't know real if it
Slapped you right in the face
Ain't for the culture I can
Tell by the s**t you embrace I see it
I'm in gotham but my minds
In a different place
So f**k your co-signs money and your radio play
I be shaking when I write my music
I've been anti-violent but don't push me 'cause
I just might do it don't push me
They won't give you no credit 'cause
They know you'll use it
And that's what happens when the
Master starts fearing the student they learn
In this city you're a number they
Don't see you as human they don't see
Just a puppet they replace for their
Games and amusement
In a city full of angels with the
Biggest influence
I see demons with a platform who
Just f**king abuse it
In gotham
Everybody knows everybody everybody
If you ain't got a blue check you ain't anybody f**k
Redo repeat sleep double tap see copy
Lost souls unaware they're turning into dead zombies zombies
Everywhere you look is plastic all fabricated
Everything you've seen on tv was exaggerated it's so fake
Don't nobody see you till you get a million
Followers and when you do they treat you
Like you're someone and you're validated
What do you do
How much money you make
Who do you know
What do you drive
Where do you stay where do you stay
And while you're answering those questions
They'll be calculating how much of it they can see
Themselves trying to come in and take
If you're fragile don't you even
Try come to this place don't come here
They gon' build you just to break
You then rebuild you to break
Let you reach your own limit then
Heroically save
And that's exactly how gotham
Turns you into a slave
In gotham
Everyone goes and they lose their souls
'Cause they can't control in gotham
Everyone lies
It's an eye for an eye
You will lose your minds in gotham
Everyone goes and they lose
Their souls 'cause they can't control in gotham
Living in gotham
Living in gotham
Living in gotham
Living in gotham
Nobody's from here
But everybody comes here
Wanting to be famous
Till they realize the price
Of fame brings close everything
That they once feared
Consumed by the algorithm it becomes clear
Life's a simulation all controlled by a puppeteer
Blind people leading blind people driving cars
To a destination that is unclear while they can't steer
1 year 2 years 3 years 4
Drugs alcohol addiction morgue
Fake friends women gold-digging as a sport
Who convince you you should live a whole life you can't afford
Nobody sees you you're continuously ignored
Everybody wants fame they don't care what it's for
They don't wanna build theirs
They're just tryna take yours
This is dog eat dog in this messed up world
You think you need this place but you don't
Happiness is not a physical place you call home
Did you ever wonder why you feel like you feel
When you take that time away from your phone
Fake s**t goes viral we know this won't
They'll say they care but will never show
Gotham isn't just a place it's a mind state
Watered by the thoughts
That manifest what you grow
In gotham
Everyone goes and they lose their souls
'Cause they can't control in gotham
Everyone lies
It's an eye for an eye
You will lose your minds in gotham
Everyone goes and they lose their souls
'Cause they can't control in gotham
Living in gotham
Living in gotham
Living in gotham
Living in gotham
Don't tell 'em how you feel
'Cause I promise they won't call back
Everybody's in it for money so it's all bad
Killing off my demons
I'm rapping this in all black
I ain't gotta
I ain't gotta
I ain't gotta
I ain't gotta
Prove nothing to gotham
They ain't done nothing for me for me