the first time they came to get me for their war   They were easy to play I acted dumb and grinned   Contrary to what we might assume everybody loves a dummy   Cause you aint gotta squint when the lights are dim   They read their papers out loud to me   I smiled and nodded my head up and down careful not to make a sound   They told me when and where im supposed to arrive   Never gave a second thought to whether or not I would oblige   I imaged the look on their face as they looked   At their face of their clocks, tapping their foot as they wait   How long would it take to realize   I must have skated or got lost on the way before they called it a day   Fuck that, im on the other side of the city   In a bed breathing heavy with my favourite betty   And I’ll be damned if im gonna catch a slug for you   So I changed my name to slug so that ya’ll would never catch me      The second time they found me they wanted to drown me   Yes man doesn’t like being made into mice   Started running their shmeal about love and dedication   How I should feel, as if I owe their nation my life   ‘look boy’ they say, ‘don’t you love your freedom?’   I told them freedom is a road seldom travelled by the multitudes   And I said they were suckers, as I pulled out my mess   And started jerking off right there on top of their desk   Picture this, me standing their digging my fist   Like, what what what? Bought to bust on a nut on their list   They cursed and gave me an informal dispersal   But im like ‘sir won’t you let me get my rocks off first yo?’   Its weird how acting like a hype is like being a hype   Its just a thin line that separates the two   And now my mind likes to walk both sides of the stripe   If only I could manifest my fate for the way I do      The third time they came was a charm   And I was tired and tried barely hanging from this yarn   The last two times I lost my path and my mind   What the hell I might as well as loose the farm   Take me, make me, train me, break me   teach me to hold my anger like a lady   Show me the right way to save these babies   Throw me into this world that hates me   Here I am in a land that don’t feel foreign   Following a plan, trying to find my portion   Still lost and still fondling my foreskin   Make me into a man but I still feel like an orphan   But I learned how to stand behind a purpose   The world is a circus and im a soldier guarding the tent   Weapon in hand, I represent and defend my hip hop nation until the end      I pledge allegiance to the flag of the hip hop cultures four elements   And to the originality in which it stands the Zulu nation under god   Peace love unity and justice for all (x7)