Race Against Reality - Monie Love

[00:00.00][Verse 1]
[00:08.46]A song for the mentally stable is about to be sung
[00:10.98]Get hip for the beginning has begun
[00:12.54]Some dumb young guns try to diss up on the one
[00:14.64]Who has a break plus chooses it, muses try to fuse in it
[00:17.01]The point I’m pressing on, why’s it so hard to understand black man, his needs and demands
[00:21.12]Even more so brothers  and sisters be dissin’ themselves
[00:23.82][?] reality upon a dusty shelf
[00:26.07]Going alone  with the stasis throne
[00:28.08]The ignorant tone is in a class of its own
[00:30.09]You could hate me for saying what has to be said
[00:32.16]Instead try checking what goes  into your head
[00:34.41][Verse  2]
[00:41.82]On a deep note, where I want my brothers where they should be
[00:44.55]Sisters should be following examples that are good, see
[00:46.68]Facin’ reality and what flows with it
[00:48.81]Using no fakeness no frauds no gimmicks
[00:50.94]Tricks of the trade-played out
[00:52.80]Like hoping your problems fade out
[00:54.84]‘Cause this only makes matters worse
[00:56.49]And makes facin’ reality act in reverse
[00:59.07][Verse 3 ]
[01:15.93]I’m disgusted with what I’m subjected to
[01:18.09]Watching  ignorant [?]  and  ugly you
[01:20.07]Playing a role of somebody in a soap
[01:22.08]Expecting the rest of the world to just cope
[01:24.27]Damn you’ve been playing a part that you’re not
[01:26.43]Damn  you’ve been spreading the vibe that you’ve got
[01:28.53]Wake up and break  up this stupid illusion
[01:30.66]Dismiss the negative vibes that you usin’
[01:32.73]Wipe off your face take a look in the water
[01:34.89]Quit this race it’s really what you ordered. To
[01:37.41]Develop thoughts with a sense of vitality
[01:39.63]Once and for all stop racing  against reality
[01:42.66][Verse 4]
[01:50.07]I’m slapping you with this beat with this rhyme
[01:52.38]Desperately tryin’ to get to your mind
[01:54.27]Come one come all, this goes to the troops
[01:56.46]Y’all a bunch of dumb folks—  I got proof
[01:58.50]From roof to roof floats a question mark
[02:00.60]I suggest you get rid of it
[02:01.86]Switch on the new shit
[02:02.85]Yeah fumes, the game of life you lose
[02:04.68]Cause you chose, you took on the stroll times lootin’
[02:07.05]You froze, when someone tried to reason you held up your nose
[02:09.84]What are you  dumb  or stupid or both?
[02:12.00]Ignorant brothers and sisters are hoes
[02:13.95]To games played by the media
[02:15.57]If they don’t kill you  the government will see to ya
[02:17.76]Wake up dammit, life is now
[02:19.53]You gotta plan  better than you have done
[02:21.75]This song is past its capacity
[02:23.88]My people —quit racing  against reality