Ink Don't Bleed (feat. Anderson Paak)

Some got hits about the racks that they earn

Say there's Benjamins and Jacksons in their pockets to burn

But when they shoot the video, producers pass around a bucket

Full of rented jewelry for them to rock and return

I know a straight edge rapper who acts like a sheep herder

A vegan on the mic whose screaming that meats murder

But when everybody's sleeping he be creeping

Slugging back the whiskey, hating himself and sneaking a cheeseburger

There's a pop idol at the top of the charts

And when her records being cut she's on the beach in St. Barts

While a session singer who didn't have the face to make it

Signs a nondisclosure agreement and belts out her parts

It's hard cause I got bars that are big uppin' Woody Allen

But maybe he's a predator whose diggin' in his talons

There's a balance and often I don't know how to feel

In a fake and painted world seek the real

Now I can't change the past but a man's gotta man up

It's hard to believe shit, sometimes I get the best of me

Now, I'm doing what I can but I'm a man not a damn chump

I can say it if you need, but I'd rather let the ink bleed

We dismiss our heroes' skeletons no matter how grim

My fans saying "I'd be honored to be injured by him"

Well fam, this branch is thin, but I'll go out on a limb

To say she didn't love her ulna poking out of her skin

Being pumped full of morphine and tied to machines

They cut off my jeans, I heard her in the ambulance scream

She's in school to do tattoos and might of had nerve damage

So I could have cost a girl a chance at her dream

Meanwhile, he pops painkillers until the dude is numb

Knew I was a stupid ass, just not that I'm a ruthless one

Youth is easily influenced

So should you be rooting for me if I touch a thousand lives but on the way I ruin some?

The rule of thumb is "all publicity is your advantage"

But human lives are not collateral damage

Bandage the wounded then vanish blank as the newest of canvases

When they zoom in the cameras, give them the truth

Now I can't change the past but a man's gotta man up

It's hard to believe

Shit, sometimes I get the best of me

Now, I'm doing what I can but I'm a man not a damn chump

I can say it if you need, but I'd rather let the ink bleed

Mega church leaders sleeping with male hookers

Mayors hitting crack pipes with their cookers

Each week a crooked politician gets caught

We're not shocked when they're cheaters

These days we're shocked when they're not

Are they the person you thought?

If they're perfect and hot

Often we blame the victim scoff and they deserve what they got

Actors sweep it under the rug and resume with the plot

But they're amateurs and we can see the boom in the shot

If perception is reality then this could be a shocker

I've done my share of fucked up things that didn't get on Gawker

Lots of tiny indiscretions way beyond the public eye

That if you saw would probably out me as a complicated guy

Mike says you got to separate the person from the art

But if the arts about that person you can't pull them apart

So you better watch the choices that you're making now because

They are something that matter, they're the only thing that does

Everything they say conflicts with everything I do

But I must admit I did it so I guess it might be true