Yeah, I pay taxes, so much taxes, s*** don't make sense
Where do my dollars go? You see lately, I ain't been convinced
I guess they say my dollars supposed to build roads and schools
But my niggas barely graduate, they ain't got the tools
Maybe 'cause the tax dollars that I make sure I send
Get spent hirin' some teachers that don't look like them
And the curriculum be tricking them, them dollars I spend
Got us learning about the heroes with the whitest of skin
One thing about the men that's controlling the pen
That write history, they always seem to white-out they sins
Maybe we'll never see a black man in the White House again
I'll write a check to the IRS, my pockets get slim
Damn, do I even have a say 'bout where it's goin'?
Some older nigga told me to start votin'
I said "Democracy is too f***in' slow"
If I'm givin' y'all this hard-earned bread, I wanna know
Better yet, let me decide, b****, it's 2018
Let me pick the things I'm funding from an app on my screen
Better that than letting wack congressman I've never seen
Dictate where my money go, straight into the palms of some Money-hungry company that make guns that circulate the country And then wind up in my hood, making bloody clothes
Stray bullet hit a young boy with a snotty nose
From the concrete, he was prolly rose
Now his body froze and nobody knows what to tell his mother
He did good at the white man schools unlike his brother
Who was lost in the streets all day, not using rubbers
So right now, he got two on the way
Still sleep on covers in his mama house
She can't take this s*** no more, she want him out
On the morning of the funeral, just as she's walking out
Wiping tears away, grabbing her keys and sunglasses
She remember that she gotta file her taxes, damn

Wow what a deep verse

gonna take your word for it

This is a dope verse. Posters above me some of the dumbest ppl ever. KOD was still some ass tho.

Taxes are bad. Thank you for sharing me this forbidden knowledge, J Cole

you rlly picked the most awful verse

It wasn't too good of a project but wouldn't call it wack

5/10 album

Cole went from a soulful singer on songs like 2face and premeditated murder to a nasally kendrick impersonator. S*** sounds bad when kendrick does it and f***in unbearable when Cole does it. Plus, he’s ultimately a nihilist with great observations and no solutions.

Kanye’s solution was JIK. say what u want, but he don’t come across as a helpless victim like Cole. JIK is about fighting.

Wait y’all think KOD was wack?

Very

The few songs towards the end are dope.

His most interesting & creative songs ever tbh. If he cotinues that direction then i might actually care about a Cole project.