Bad Math

I wrote this in 2012, in Phoenix, after hearing the founder of G.E.M.S. speak.
I finally transcribed it:



The math in this culture is all outa whack, my plan is to put these norms under attack,  I said
The math in this culture is all outa whack, my plan is to put these norms under attack,

She's coming from a broken family, lookin for a new home,
 the pimp says, I'll be your pops, line your portait in chrome,
but he just frontin, burn her leg with a blunt and,
smash her face, when he gets mad about something,
It happened to him when he was only five,
but we get used to it, and play it as 2000's second top jive,
"you know it's hard out her for a..." STOP It.
someone say, stuff is real, do what you gotta to survive,
so he hustle em, whatever, make cash and stay alive,
then he makes it his skill, cause he ain't gonna work no nine to five,


things start off at a very young age,
 you don't walk out the door and just start living depraved,
it's a gradual process that's getting children enslaved,
and at the age of 18 there's not some magical loosening of mental chains,
there's still the pain, there's still the memories that remain,
 the post trauma stress syndrome,
the fact is once you find em, you can't just patchem up and send home,
that place probably was a let down in the first place sending em to sins dome,

So what we need to do is stand up,
yeah just walk out the door and stand up,
tell them John's to quit buying sex and man up,

I admit some stuff in my rhymes are graphic,
so is the Bible,
maybe that's why so many churches want have it...Preached.
if you want to address sin you gotta stab it....REACH
to the core the heart of the matter,
the root causes,
 cause if you connect sin to death then porn should make you nauseous,

call up the press,
and tell them they should address,
the slavery that's going on with an urgent sort of stress,
what this generation accepts, the next will embrace,
so if we do nothing else, we must at least show our distaste,

but I say...that we need to do more,
I say .... it's time we get hardcore,
I say.... we put our knees on the  floor,
ask God to set before us good works galore,

I say... we give up despair, and take up the courage to explore, outside our door,

And what exactly comes next?
honestly, I'm not sure,
but it sure beats :
watching the innocent fall for another lure,
letting the little girl continue to feel insecure,
letting culture, as a whole, be robbed of everything that's pure,
giving up on the mission to endure,
keeping to ourselves inside walls the cure,

I say till we break out, all our rituals are manure,
....and are songs....and everything...manure...


The math in this culture is all outa whack, my plan is to put these norms under attack,  I said
The math in this culture is all outa whack, my plan is to put these norms under attack,

So what we need to do is stand up,
yeah just walk out the door and stand up,
tell them John's to quit buying sex and man up,

the math is outa whack, the math is outa whack, the math, the math, the. math. is. out. of. whaaaack.