Tumultu - Mogli the Iceburg

2017 and the earth is filled with violence

Turmoil creepin in the mindstate

The media been tryin to start a race war

While the rich still unaffected by the crime rate

Irate citizens are in the street demanding change

But none of us agree on what to change to

Im sittin here just plottin on a move while the fam

Steady prayin that this industry don’t change you

And I ain’t finna compromise nothin

People said I’m switchin sides but yall frontin

Homie you don’t really know my heart

This my work and I’ma do this thing with all my might

Boy thats on my life

You don’t like the things I’m sayin in my music

You don’t have to listen when I’m speakin on it

If I’m promising you one thing that you can expect from me

I guarantee you I’mma always keep it honest

Yeah, Indie tribe you know we’ve been up on it yeah

Chewin up every single opponent, yeah

But who’s my competition but my brothers

Jealousy has gotten into me comparing me to another

When I see their accomplishments and accolades

I get jaded but I keep it hidden from my face

Cause I don’t want the world to see me as I really am

A self-righteous hypocrite thats always throwin shade, yeah

On January first of every year I open up my bible

And I always say I’m gonna talk to God more

By January fifth I hit Leviticus

And then I start to question everything that I believe in God for

By January 10th I put it down

And drown in doubt I’m down and out

Convinced that I have fallen out of grace now

Then I remember when You showed my Your face

The world is hungry for Your love and I’ve been runnin in place

So now I’m askin for Your help to get me back in this race

And I’mma speak my testimony just to give em a taste

Of what Your freedom really like before I hear it’s too late

Cause I got homies droppin dead from all these pills that they take

Ayo this thing an epidemic you can’t fathom the rate

And all rappers on the radio stay movin that weight

And I won’t hesitate to call you out when I know you’re fake

That goes to Future Juicy J and all the rest of you lames, yeah

If I had started making music just so I could get wealthy

I’d have gone to law school so Donald Trump would expel me

Then I’d sue the government in hopes that it would propel me

On my Zach De La Rocha, I won’t do what you tell me

Got a lot of hatred in my heart I need y’all to help me

I need you to pray for me, I need you to check me

Cause when I see my sin as God does it wrecks me

And I need that perspective up in my life to correct me

If racism dead, why are churches segregated?

This the land of the free

But lead the world in incarcerated citizens

With the minimum sentences

Still a remnant of the thing we thought we changed with the 13th amendment

We still growin, still movin

We stay steady, we go through it

We ain’t losin and y’all knew it

Don’t see the world in the same way I used to

The current state is tumultu

(Splash into water)

People say that drowning is actually a really peaceful way to die.

It’s not difficult to see why.

After the shock and hysteria passes,

after fluids finally fill your lungs as you struggle to hold your breath,

a certain serenity takes hold after you surrender.

But you don’t die

immediately, you become numb.

And the longer that you’re under, the more you

forget what could have been.

And you lose perspective on what’s about to happen