Lyrics Vent (feat. Tang3nt) - Mic Flo

Spiritual elevation, American reservation
We try to breathe in this troubled nation
Black, white, brown, yellow, rainbow coalition
Turn your eye towards the truth of our position
We started off sick in the mind and social condition
Struggle and pain, troubled brains on a mission
The truth is that hate is born from abject fear
Deliver love cuz all we want is to trust our intuition
Please don't set us back 100 years
And open the wounds that brought our country to tears
If your heart never opened to Harriet, Malcolm
Martin Luther King or Shirley Chisholm
If you never listened close to Huey or Angela Davis
Chuck D or KRS wisdom
Then I suggest you take a ride
On the most inspiring journey of American life

I vent, yo I vent
To speak against America's descent
I vent, man I gotta vent
To express my distress & my dissent
I vent, my rhyme is how I vent
Why we going back to where we been
Naw I vent, let it out & vent
To move us forward that is the intent

They shooting, everywhere and anywhere
So gone are the days that you can live without any fear
The solution isn't clear & definitely isn't near
He opened fire steps from where Nick was sipping beer
Will passive thoughts and prayers stop the active shots of slayers
We aren't indivisible whats visible is hostile neighbors
We encourage hate then wonder why god forsake us
Meanwhile, Blacks with guns are lost & ape-ish
While whites with guns those are lawful patriots
America's racism was always ostentatious
No fear of immigrants I fear the white, lost and anxious
But we can't let these monster hate mongers break us
We focus on love & unplug from this awful matrix
But we still get confronted by awful racists
That try to keep us out or pack us into cells
& protect the bigots those are the true infidels
That's why you see demonstration after demonstration
Due to the frustration about our denigration
But I'm also frustrated by my limitations
& when I get impatient, my verse is ventilation

I vent, yo I vent
To speak against America's descent
I vent, man I gotta vent
To express my distress & my dissent
I vent my rhyme is how I vent
Why we going back to where we been
Naw I vent, let it out & vent
To move us forward that is the intent

As brothers and sisters we're in
Original sin, freedom from hatred begins
When our minds open up and acknowledge our humanity
No one has the right to racist insanity
No one has the right to oppress and control
Women or another nation's people and soul
Americans have endless will for great good
But instead we stick our fellow man into the 'hood
Instead we pay women 30 percent less
And turn a blind eye to corporate greed, it's a mess
Homeless people line the roads in makeshift tents
Right across the street from the White House press
So who you gonna be in this future we share
Consider this to be my wish if you dare
Take a step into the light if you care
& arm yourself for war against hate and despair

I vent, yo I vent
To speak against America's descent
I vent, man I gotta vent
To express my distress & my dissent
I vent my rhyme is how I vent
Why we going back to where we been
Naw I vent, let it out & vent
To move us forward that is the intent