Lesson One (Tablo's Word)

[00:01.98] I walk through the streets

[00:03.74] Everybody wanna change

[00:06.23] You gotta do certain things, you know?

[00:09.00] Straight up

[00:10.75] Yeah, people, attention

[00:14.98] Education, knowledge

[00:17.48] Huh, yeah, I got something to say to my teachers

[00:20.98] Genius is not the answer to all questions

[00:24.48] It's the question to all answers

[00:30.73] Do we learn math to add the dead sums?

[00:32.98] Subtract the weak ones, count cash for great ones?

[00:35.48] Yo, we multiply but divide the nation

[00:37.98] Break down like fractions, send our sons away to die

[00:40.98] Do we learn science in defiance of faith?

[00:42.98] To make alliance with fakes for an appliance's sake?

[00:45.98] We ask for the real to make artificial intelligence

[00:48.73] To make smarter kills of others' presidents

[00:51.23] Why do we learn history? To fix stories for the guilty?

[00:53.49] Make angels look filthy and the devils look milky?

[00:54.98] If the victor writes the books then what have we won?

[00:58.48] Are we battleships of authorship a rich man's guns?

[01:01.25] Do we learn to read to receive the lies

[01:03.50] To deceive the eyes from seeing between the lines?

[01:06.24] Yo, we use words to bring forth sticks and stones

[01:08.73] To sing songs of hate that fill the streets with bones

[01:11.49] "Unseen or heard"

[01:12.98] "A king with words"

[01:14.23] "Tablo, lyrical assassin"

[01:16.73] "Y-y-yeah yeah"

[01:19.23] "Make me vision for better livin'"

[01:21.75] "Unseen or heard"

[01:23.23] "A king with words"

[01:24.48] "Tablo, lyrical assassin"

[01:26.98] "Y-y-yeah yeah"

[01:29.23] "Make me vision"

[01:30.48] "I'm the truth"

[01:32.23] Is a day job more than self-slavery?

[01:34.51] When we're locked watching the clock impatiently

[01:37.23] We sweat for the dollar bills, the checks, and the credit cards

[01:39.75] But the dollar kills, breaks the necks of our inner hearts

[01:42.23] If the police are role models for the righteous

[01:44.75] Why does justice depend on guns and nightsticks?

[01:47.23] Mr. Officer, don't punish me, with brutality

[01:49.73] The streets got me singing Marvin Gaye off-key

[01:52.48] Why do we need church to get to heaven's gates?

[01:54.98] Can holy water quench the thirst of those whose fates

[01:57.51] Started in the wrong place with the wrong face?

[02:00.23] Can the poor and the hungry survive solely on grace?

[02:02.49] Can this rap game ever bring changes?

[02:05.23] When MCs would rather floss a cross than be saviors?

[02:07.99] Will I last in this game, be blasted with shame

[02:09.23] Will I stand for my name and never blaspheme for fame?