I Ain't Better

(album: While We're Here - 2022)

A lotta folks asking the wrong question
When you get the answers those gon' be the wrong lessons
Like where the rap superstars?
I got an objection
Death to the superstars the only natural progression
That [?] you chase only make corporate pensions
[?]
How many celebs bend and folded in the light before we realized big isn't best?
Damn, that's what I'm questioning
How can we lose what came from streets when it returns to it?
Means you're no longer part of the we that really yearns for it
Everybody teaching these days, nobody learning shit
I just sit perpetually amazed at how absurd it gets

Yeah
But I ain't better
But I ain't better
No, no
But I ain't better
Yeah
But I ain't better

What is underrated when I answer to my own taste?
Listening to suggestions a pass that I won't take
Everyone always thinks they the one that's gon convince you
They never gon believe you really acting out of principle
Cause they can only see you through the lens that they live through
And they trade in their humanity for a digital life
But I'll be humble in this bitch, polite
Cause it's a thin line between honest and resentful spite
The breeze blows a minute out and I'll be here for years
Wind resistant so never been a problem to cheer for peers
But the sounds I'm surrounded by got me feeling like ain't no one else in my atmosphere
Got that clear?

But I ain't beter
Yeah
But I ain't better
No, no
But I ain't better
I ain't better