D.C. - Woke

A lot of folks say they woke, what they speakin' bout?
They don't really know the truth, they just seekin' clout
Wannabe insomniacs, swear they never sleepin' sound
No research, just tweet and it's so easy now
Bunch of sheep run with it like receiver routes
Next thing you know the lies spreading like diseases now
Any dissension and you leave it out
You only speaking to people about the things that you agree about
Regurgitating information from your echo chamber
Overrating people's statements just because they famous
That clapback look good, but what they really saying?
I can't recall when popularity meant validation
Drape a blanket on a person when they make a statement
Don't dispute the phrases, you just gotta say they racist
And if they're POC you just say it's self hatred
Then wonder why you see the same things and nothing's changing
Boy you really think you woke when your mind's broke
Every single thing you wrote is somebody quote
Everything you thought somebody thought before
I think you forgot how to think on your own
Staring at your Twitter through your iPhone
See another protest you cosign on
In your feelings, middle finger to the five-O
Think that really makes you woke, boy you not though
When Mike Brown got shot what was y'all response?
Y'all got up and burned down the entire block
That's black businesses hurt, now he ain't got a job
And can't feed his kids all because your temper hot
Let's talk about that resentment that you feel inside
The rich privileged white man should be vilified
They out to get you right?
So tell me how y'all gunned down triple XXX and George Zimmerman is still alive?
Y'all popped Smoke and took the Hussle from Nipsey
No riots, no noise like a lip sync
I ain't never visualized folks so unified
When a human dies by someone looking like you and I
Look at the hoods, Planned Parenthoods on every side
Call it women's rights to determine if you live or die
That's a disguise in my eyes for legal genocide
Murders everywhere while you continue to sleep at night
Boy you really think you woke when your mind's broke
Every single thing you wrote is somebody quote
Everything you thought somebody thought before
I think you forgot how to think on your own
Staring at your Twitter through your iPhone
See another protest you cosign on
In your feelings, middle finger to the five-O
Think that really makes you woke, boy you not though
Mass media controlling all the crap you see
It's a travesty how they sensationalize tragedy
Now that's your reality, you walk outside thinking that's what's happening
I see what they're doing, it ain't no trapping me
Being woke ain't about the best conspiracies
It's the ability to think independently
Cuz we don't know all that happened in the past it's a mystery
That's not an excuse to make up history
Always tryna change the past, what does that do?
Focused on school names and taking down statues?
Should be tryna change the laws and the statutes
Running off emotion disregarding what the facts prove
Being woke in 2020 is deceiving
All I'm seeing is a philosophy of convenience
No real reason for things that you believe in
You think you woke, well then I don't know what sleep is
Boy you really think you woke when your mind's broke
Every single thing you wrote is somebody quote
Everything you thought somebody thought before
I think you forgot how to think on your own
Staring at your Twitter through your iPhone
See another protest you cosign on
In your feelings, middle finger to the five-O
Think that really makes you woke, boy you not though

Written by:
Derek Clark

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