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Rattus Norvegicus

from Isolation by Kasey Zoned

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(Verse 1)
I stroll in solitude
It's what I often do
A dub in the Dutch
I call it two
Am I allowed to groove
All of you
Collars in suits
I'd rather not bother you
But something smells fishy
Probably not otter food
So imma get audible!
Hear me? Imma get audible!
Ain't shit sweet like a hollow tooth
Be damned if I don't follow through
Our feet deep in the shallow pool
But on your side of the street
Adult swim in the condos
Through y'all windows, I see feasts
Y'all blind eyes turned
From behind your beige blinds
Sidewalk grime, pushed to crime
Liquor stores on our corners
A fifth or more
Not sure if we can afford
To floor past the precinct
Into schools that are decent
But boy, I'm off the deep end
And no it doesn't depend
On what you're believing in
I'm tired of weeping
Gentrify our avenues
Having new clubs at our expenses
So honestly,
I don't give a fuck who I'm offending


(Hook) x2
Ain't no rats in they trash bin
When walking past, like a has been
Burning grass and I'm ashing
The furnace is fast blasting
We're learning they laughing
They laughing, we're learning
We're learning, they're laughing
Ain't no rats in they trash bin

(Verse 2)
Y'all acting as if it's a tragedy
Magic, how'd this happened
Like poverty wasn't swept under
Rugs, mats, tapestry. Thunder
Storms pour on your floats
Born with more, hope you don't choke
On your platinum spackled spatula
But y'all still hazardous Draculas
Snatch up my Nouns and verbs verbatim
My adjectives agitate aggressors
My words are what you make em
And fly over the heads of lessers
Now, onto the next spurt
Turning heads so quick
You finna get nauseous and sick
I'm lit, Often coughing, equipped with a six bics. But
To the topic on hand,
Fuck a racial catalyst
Fuck a white ACTivist,
That's white with an asterisk
The type to act as if
Blactivist practices are
So blasphemous
Straddled higher than a saddled kid
Y'all damned us like that apple bit
Since the nation's Genesis
Blacks been busting blemishes
Blacks never had it effortlessly but
Blacks been pure excellence
If you're an ally, be one
Not all fabled, fee fum
Because yes, we be one
But we sip from different serums

(Hook) x2
Ain't no rats in they trash bin
When walking past, like a has been
Burning grass and I'm ashing
The furnace is fast blasting
We're learning they laughing.
They laughing, we're learning
We're learning, they're laughing
Ain't no rats in they trash bin

(Bridge)
I jotted these after crossing the street into poverty
What bothers me is gentrification ain't an oddity
Streets went bleached from their previous black
I guess theses people teaching some obedient rats

(Hook) x2
Ain't no rats in they trash bin
When walking past, like a has been
Burning grass and I'm ashing
The furnace is fast blasting
We're learning they laughing.
They laughing, we're learning
We're learning, they're laughing
Ain't no rats in they trash bin

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from Isolation, released April 20, 2017

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