Bad News

Artist: Lateef and Lyrics Born
Album:  Latyrx
Song:   Bad News

Chorus : Bad News travels fast / and if it's about you you'll probably hear
'bout it last / but when they press up / and check up / and they ask / you
Gotta keep perspective on the future and the past / and laugh  / while they
Keep talkin' / talk, talk, talkin, / chicken heads keep squawkin' / power
Of the spoken word is infinite / you can tell / cuz people are always
Talking / talking on the run, talking while walking, / talking in line
Talking in circles, / talking in time all over the world / talkin' 'bout
Whatever's on their mind- that's fine / talkin' 'bout who they hawkin, who
They watchin, who they clockin, / who they heard was up to something
Poppin' / always talkin' about who they remember and who's forgotten /
Who's rockin' the set and who's floppin', droppin' out / talkin' 'bout
People from the cradle to the coffin / talkin' 'bout people, talkin' 'bout
People, talkin' 'bout people, / talkin' 'bout people non-stop talkin' often
/Chorus /People talk shit / their minds reinforce it / spittin' out words
And thoughts that are amorphous / pushin' sloppy sound out of their vocal
Orifice / like it ain't bein' recorded / sometimes a words scorch is worse
Than torches / whats more / is the talk ain't uniform or rehearsed / it's
The richest, the poorest,/ from CEO boardrooms to porches to alley ways and
Gutters / from coast to coast, east to west, south to north / it's people
Talking of course! / like life is a courtroom / most bullshittin' from
Midnight to high noon and back again / Blacks and the Blacker thans /
Whites and the Africans / far to little action far to much satisfaction /
In philanderin' usin' sex like a sedative / repetitive like rhetoric / I'm
Bettin' ya think ya nice cuz you give free add-vice right? / but unless you
Got a tight alternative it's best to let it just live! / and raise the
Octave up to the positive / even though they try and stop you up / arteries
Cloggeded / the Black man targeted that's how they set it off, they said it
/ but in the end it will be only them that's effected by they negative vibe
/ I know it hurts, there is no indigestion worse /than that which comes
From having to eat your own word(s), / I heard two(2) people need not
Bicker in a burning home / but some people know how to live everybodies
Life but their own so, / here's the poem dedicated / to the hatred
Propagated by the ill-fated / snakes that's waitin' in grass / those that
Talk the most got the least to say / but that ain't nothin' new / and it
Ain't even really all that