The Nightly News

Lyrics

[Intro] Eh (Yuh) Eh The nightly news [Verse 1] You know, sometimes I like to see the bad guy win Commence the sin, ooh Let the party begin Reportin' live from the gutter of a fifth of gin Turn on the motherfuckin' camera to look through the lens Slash and dice, fulfill the appetite, we let 'em take a bite Teach 'em 'bout this trauma 'fore we teach 'em how to read and write Paranoia creepin' up, it's like a roll of the dice They gon' feel more than a buzz, this is a hell of a plight It's all scripted like it's reality television A rat race without a finish, who's really winnin'? Them job or a jail cell, they both prisons The only difference is amenities within the systems Who's tryna listen? All of us are now the victims Policies and politicians privatized the acquisitions Poverties, conformity, they advertised a hopeless mission Properties, monopolies, divided so there's no addition Where's the vision? I guess that we all blind and can't see That everything comes with a price in the land of the free That's your food, education, and shelter It's helter-skelter I hope that you're spiritual, only God can help us [Chorus] Who can you trust that will give you the truth? This is the news! (the nightly news, the nightly news) No biased information We're bringing this shit straight to you! (the nightly news, the nightly news) [Post-Chorus] If you're lookin' for disparity, you found your news We makin' millions of a heinous views It's a dangerous game and we all might lose You are now tuned in to the nightly news [Verse 2] They murder, they stealin', they killin' We talk 'bout everything from crime to the debt ceiling We give you all those cliché lines to get in your feelings Let's create a new collage, turn heroes to villains We force-feed you a new façade once we start revealin' Inaccurate biases replacin' our journalism Immaculate masters of deception, no activism Inadequate perception, the side effect of this livin' We packin' these prisons, fill 'em with children inside abandoned buildings Slave labor, printin' this paper providin' poor data Human nature, minor and major but our design is greater Take your neighbor, turn him to a hater, send him to his maker Glow from the ambulance is brighter than a lightsaber Programming feeling like a straight shot, no chaser Since 9/11 everybody fears Al-Qaeda On a mental treadmill, running like Gale Sayers [Outro] That's right And you know the saddest part is that the victim The fatal victim in last night's shooting The car crash several years ago It has been a violent weekend 42 people shot, 9 of them fatally