2.) Best Lyricism: Lauryn Hill - Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)
"Experience is manufactured in this neurotic, toxic society."
Despite the fact that Lauryn Hill was forced to release this track due to an impending jail sentence for tax evasion, the lyricism here can't be ignored. After a lengthy hiatus from recording, she proves her lyrical sword is still sharp, displaying an unparalleled level of skill and social awareness. Both the tone and delivery of the track mirror the neurotic society she aims to illustrate with her words, and her current situation actually makes the song all the more potent. As far comebacks go, this is definitely a good start.
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[Verse 1]
We're living in a joke time, metaphorical coke time
Commerce and guru men run the whole world, man
Bone drunken debauchery, old world brutality
Cold world kills softly, whole world runs savagely
Reading into prior things, program TV screens
Quick scam and drag queens, real likely to blast fiends
Think twice and past dreams, crime if you ask clean
Quick fast, for poison has entered the blood stream
Psychological master, consequences of tragedy
Mythological characters, men and women is parody
Superficial the vanity, borderline the insanity
Out of order humanity, crime committed so passively
Desperados and casualties, corporations want batteries
Explanations of strategies, domination and mastery
Own zones and the bankrupt, grown people, so corrupt
Vice lords and yellow men, junkies and popularity
Culture so independent, vultures scavenge reality
Past, feel the depravity, decaying social cavity
Preying on human ignorance, popular immorality
Sympathy, disease head - population misled
Self indulgent, past dead - absence of the God head
Pimps, pushers and harlots
Nepotism, no artistery
Despotism and piracy
Desperation, dishonesty
Physicist is your policy, more money, less equality
Inflated global ego, imitating reality
Fuel cycle pharaoh, poisonous poison arrows
Hypocritics on salary, idle hands that was agency
Predisposed to complacency, jealousy, audacity
Contagious social gluttony, stages of mass malignancy
Effort to make deception, generation in atrophy
Glam life in debt, scam life in editors
Byproducts of neglected children hiding from crediters
Absence of self respect, fully scared of competitors
Lifestyle of luxury at someone's expense
Sensitive children, used up and sacrificed
Blind to the consequence, smoked up on dope pipes
Ecstasy, fast life, recklessly past life
Narcotics and cash fights in this neurotic society
Benefactors turned actors, addictions triple captors
Experience is manufactured in this neurotic toxic society
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