Rhys Langston Jesus Of Los Feliz
Undermining overthinking all the time
You know it's through
(you know it)
Lenses bifocal bifurcated
Yours who is signed true
(yo, we signed true)
Email game on fleek dependency
For decorum rule
(for decorum)
Was finna complete my sentence
Fragments they will have to do
(they will have to)
Application not submitted
Rejection in time is due
(it's due)
Haven't updated resume or worked in a year or two
(in a year or two)
Linkedin profile twice a day notifies me of openings too
(they got openings?)
Glaze of the eyes, hover the color
Of socialized media blue
Thousand likes, fickle social proof
(with the social proof);
Facebook algorithm, indie rap truth
Mofucka I was Jesus of Los Feliz
Before the sun gave you my noose
Was in my Black Temple collecting Illidan's loot
360 flips and hot cheeto fry chips
Skin tone comp corner grill
And the park echoed across the way
Coming college grad culture fill
Raised them pitchforks before the move to Hollywood and Leimert
Away from vegan breadcrumbs
And non-fat free
White guilt trip rule of thumb
Performativity of onion bagels
Along 125th
Acclimatizing yiddish politics at
Upper west side dinner party trysts
Hair became becoming artifact
Intact with tact
Outstretched pallid fingers
Desiring to touch that “safe black.”
(don't touch it, don't touch it
Naw, naw)
Birthing them same nervous poems
Midnight oil turned to rap
(yeah we turned to rap)
Gave way to conjunctive musings
Of possibilities following that
Outrage made introspection
Sans social media blast
Searching for the face to match
Upon the Google gene pool map
(Google gene)
'til I returned home and saw that:
Undermining overthinking all the time
You know it's through
(you know it)
Lenses bifocal bifurcated
Yours who is signed true
(yo we signed true)
Email game on fleek dependency
For decorum rule
(for decorum)
Finna complete my sentence
Fragments they will have to do
(they will have to)
