I Am My Own Culture

I am my own culture

Nobody can tell me different

I walk in a style all my own

I sound different eveytime I'm on the phone

My headphones are on all the time

No time to listen to the garbage they call music

No Bieber, Gaga or Minaj

I  bask in a musical oasis

They're clinging to a mirage

When hip hop flipped the script

I stayed on the same page

When the fade was in

My afro was all the rage

Well at least in my mind

I don't care what's hot n' what's not

I am one of a kind

I walk by the fork in the road

I go straight

I carve out my own path

No time for looking back

I cleaned my own  slate

I don't pop or lock

I don't binge or rock

I think, I want,  I know

I'm different, I'm important, I matter

My job my time and everything mentioned in the latter

I'm somewhere above all that

Minuscule nuances of a brainless herd

The often go unseen, unheard

Trapped in greed

How they walk around with their heads in the sand

I'll never understand

I can see them all from my pedestal 

I don't live in that need

I will be heard

Drowning out the noise of my generation

Disbelieving the myth of our desolation

A remnant remains, yes it's our absolution

I am that remnant

I see their faults, and hate their pride

I look through the window and point my finger

I forget that it's just a mirror

And the more I linger

I see I'm no different

Apathy is the new idolatry

Empathy the new pathology

To rid us of our guilt

But never change our theoloy

I is where it's at

Neatly divided into tribes and races

Pretty and ugly faces

Prisoners of our indentity 

It's about I

I am the culture

Because our culture is "I"