Yeah, sendinâ this one out
To my evolutionary psychologists
Daly and Wilson, Steven Pinker
Robert Wright, David Sloan Wilson
Geoffrey Miller, David Buss what up!
Yeah, we livinâ this to the day that we die
Survival of the fit, only the strongâ¦
Thereâs a war goinâ on outside no man is safe from
You can run but you canât hide forever
If you come to my block, youâll see some territoriality
A place where kill or be killed is the mentality
But get it straight, itâs just a necessary strategy
You gotta play the hand youâre dealt; you canât magically
Escape from the habitat that you was born in
Three homicides in my neighbourhood this morninâ
Cops came and kicked the crooked door in, with no warninâ
And started roughinâ up my young cousin
Sheâs only seventeen and got a bun in the oven
Plus a concussion, but she ainât done nothinâ
So keep your mouth shut and donât jump to judgment
On the lives weâre livinâ â just close your eyes and listen
While I break down some homicide statistics
If youâre thinkinâ the criminal mind is just vacant
Youâre mistaken, this is calculated risk takinâ
Weâre livinâ in a situation with a low
Life-expectancy, and a major discrepancy
Between the haves and have-nots, and you wonder
Why the padlock on every cash box is smashed off
Câmon, you canât call it âpathologicalâ
Naw, thatâs illogical; you can try to understand it
But you canât stop it though, not unless you address
The root causes, the conscious and unconscious
Decisions to discount future prospects
Câmon, itâs obvious â the beat keeps bouncing
The homicide rate keeps mounting, which leads
To steep discounting, and a lot of violence
But itâs not a virus; itâs a rational response
To high risk environments and short time horizons
With high stakes and highly visible prizes
And you wonder why weâre criminal-minded
Hey, you canât say weâll get satisfaction if weâre patient
With self-control and delayed gratification
When the only job that pays is casket-makinâ
And death is the ultimate plan cancellation
So check the facts and recent data releasinâ
Youâll see a pattern of increasinâ competition
A bunch of young guys all stugglinâ and status seekinâ
And causinâ the crimes that make the social fabric weaken
And life expectancy also predicts teen pregnancy
The need to leave a legacy genetically
Will never be completely controlled contraceptively
Yeah, thatâs transparent â imagine if your kids
Would never meet their grandparents, unless you followed
The Bristol Palen plan for parenthood
And then they say, âOoh, these young girls are so damn careless
Gettingâ pregnant before marriage; itâs such a tragedyâ
Apparently itâs also a reproductive strategy,
Especially when you can see them adjusting actively
When their circumstances change; in both the cases
Of the young ladies with babies and the male risk-takers
You see people adapting to their situations
And itâs the same in different places and with different races
This is not about ethical justifications
Itâs evolutionary psych, and itâs just the basics
And still people call this behaviour âmaladaptiveâ
Because of our reaction when violence happens
But if we really want to change the outcome
Then maybe we should just start questioning how itâs adaptive
And the bottom line is that inequity and life
Expectancy are the ultimate causes of crime
And the results of crime; to me thatâs true
The two combine together in a feedback loop
But I got some moves to make, so Iâll be back soon
Just donât ask me what Iâm about to do
âCause I canât say, so itâs left to untold fact
Until my death, my ghost will stay alive
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
Yeah, we livinâ this âtil the day that we die
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive
Yeah, on this block I stand
Click-clack in my hand
What it means to be a man
Hope your gun donât jam
Iâma do what I can
On this money-makinâ plan
And if you never did before
I hope now you understand
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