The Problem - Speech Debelle

Old school new school depends on the mirror

I rhyme about the times when the youts are popping pillas

Miniature shotta mini rockers

Ain’t gotta lot of height but heart he got a lotta

Dads are never there, nobody really cares

Cause we got used to it like perm in black hair

So under the carpet is where it lives

Along with the fiddlers, politicians and them other miscreants

I have a common sense for world’s events

So when I hear it on the news I try and analyze the views

The pudding is the proof that’s why they looking sick looking malnourished

They should have never listened to it

Switch it off get it out like unruly kids

That’s why I was suspended from it I was never in it

If they invented it never for your development

If you can’t recognize it then you irrelevant

Me and my people live in tenement yards

And since they’re too watchy watchy we have to draw card

Duppy let go of my hand for this conundrum

Is gonna get me in trouble like what bam bam

And they don’t know the half of it,

I shook hands with the worry man so it’s pure worry man

So I’m doing it like it’s my last album

Nothing is guaranteed so watch the outcome

I doubt we out with them we never roll wid dem

Never catch me chilling with the other villains

I prefer the ones who do it out of need rather the greed

Know what I mean

I recognize the pain and the will

And ovastand that it’s a sh*tty deal

But hey blood whatever we keep it real,

Giving it to em until they will — listen

I know they think that we’re dumb — listen

They better know I ain’t the one — listen

I don’t believe what they say — listen

Can’t you tell I don’t play — listen

And they can say what they like — listen

Hide the facts with their lies — listen

But if you feel it in your heart — listen

When they say that you can’t

Every day we try to find a way

To get it together, to get it together

They better be afraid of what we got to say

Cause we be get it together

Hey, it’s a problem hey, it’s a problem

We glorify and glamorize the popular

The popular ting can get you kind of popping

He be saying nothing, she showing it all

Lyrics cut through nothing them fools with blunted tools

Certain songs I can’t mess wid

Cause the science in the sound got me screwing up my brow

I’m not sure how but I trust my own instincts

Cause as long as I’m here but spirit never extinct

So instinctively I push from the pagans

Kinda like a doctor prescription

Cause all I need to do is boost the melanin

Just give me some sunshine and good food the elements

It’s pretty much becoming prevalent

That these people are pretending that they are saying something

When they ain’t sayin' nothing at all

From the window to the wall

We evoke greatness till 20 ft. tall

I caught the feeling, caught the spirit, caught the vibe

We must awake the spirit so it comes alight

I never think I never tell no lies

What’s done in the dark will come to the light

So keep your stories, I am not a child

I’m big grown woman with a big grown life

While they’re pissing on kids and beating up their wives

I talk about the mother that sucking on the pipes

I talk about the kids with no voice out of sight

Running a fire to the power of the night,

I ain’t got time, I’m trying to do it all tonight

I’m listening to Pac, thinking least the brother tried

I recognize the pain and the will

And ovastand that it’s a sh*tty deal

But hey blood whatever we keep it real,

Giving it to em until they will — listen

I know they think that we’re dumb — listen

They better know I ain’t the one — listen

I don’t believe what they say — listen

Can’t you tell I don’t play — listen

And they can say what they like — listen

Hide the facts with their lies — listen

But if you feel it in your heart — listen

When they say that you can’t

Every day we try to find a way

To get it together, to get it together

They better be afraid of what we got to say

Cause we be get it together

Hey, it’s a problem hey, it’s a problem