kiwizzo:

Watched Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” and was inspired to create a song about the contradictions and lies of capitalism. Produced, wrote, and recorded this joint within the span of 24 hours. Enjoy.

Highway Robbery
Written and Produced by Kiwi Illafonte

[Verse 1]
The greatest trick that the devil ever played
Pulling the strings of a puppet onstage / a master and a slave
a story gets written with blood on the page
a family evicted a bank that gets paid

a pipeline to prison for black and brown kids
unless one of em kids gets shot by the pigs
shiiit, television tells our children they are worthless
that they’re limited to what is on the surface

money, cars and clothes, you gotta have those
lighter skin little plastic surg’ry on your nose
trust me bro / them dollars’ll pull you all the hoes
sorry folks, that’s just how this fuckin system goes

that profit margin the beauty of free enterprise
we gettin crumbs / while bankers are gettin hella pie
this part of history is that we alla lived a lie
sky’s the limit / for us the limit is the sky

[Verse 2]

What gets me mad is this shit right here
bailed out the banks with a campaign of fear / the target was clear
the rich get richer and the poor disappear
that crisis in the mirror is closer than it appears

so folks stand back
all i’ve got left is these old man raps / with my soul on a track
shorties hella cruisin round oakland strapped
while this country’s gettin jacked by goldman sachs

so who’s the real criminal? the thugs on wall street
like corner boys shooting dice on the concrete
they got a gluttonous feast but they still wanna eat
ready to pounce just waitin for us to fall asleep

and no matter where we go they tryin to follow us
non profits lookin more like corporate offices
callin it / what it is / analyze it properly
real life monopoly / highway robbery

[Bridge]

Gap, Walmart, Starbucks, Exxon
Google, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chervron
Fox, Kellogs, JP Morgan
Halliburton, Shell, Caterpillar, Goldman

Lockheed, Merryl Lynch, Ford, Monsanto
Pfizer, Dow Chemical, Wells Fargo
Citigroup, Nike, Intel, Nestle
Mickey D’s, Pepsi, Apple, Disney etc…

Tell em kiwi…

3 months ago  /  2 notes  /  Source: kiwizzo