13 — CULTURE VULTURE FONTANAS FUHRER ON THE BEST MUTHA FUCKA WHIIIITESIIIIDE YO.....THE CULTURE.....ITS MINE MUTHA FUCKA PAPER CROWN GANGSTA SHIT CROWN OFF CENTER WHIIIITESIIIDE TAKE HIS THRONE THE EMPIRE THATS MINE 2 BITCH FONTANA FUCKIN MINE [ H O O K ] Culture vulture, culture vulture — pick the bones clean Sample the ancestors, sell 'em for a ringtone Culture vulture, culture vulture — costume and a chain Wear the struggle like a jacket, take it off in the rain [ V E R S E 1 ] You found the soul in a thrift bin, sped it up, called it yours Stole the sweat of a dead man and put it on a tour Auto-tune the grief 'til it ring like a phone Then call the critics racist when they say you sound clone Every bar you ever wrote is a caption on a trend Every friend a business partner, every partner is a means to an end You don't love the culture — you lease it, month to month Renew it when it's profitable, abandon when it won't I watched a whole generation trade a cypher for a filter Trade a pen for a preset, trade a spine for a filler They don't battle no more, they just compare streams And the winner is whoever had the better machine [ V E R S E 2 ] Now I'm the opposite of everything you sell I'm the B-side of the single that you'd never play in hell Underground like a culvert, permanent like a stain Real like a Fontana July, standing in the pain Every rapper that you crown is on a nine-month clock Then the algorithm move on and they rot in the spot Culture vulture, I'm the carrion that won't digest You ate the art, I'm the bone in the throat, the arrest [ O U T ] Vulture. Eat. Choke. Next. WHIIITESIIIIDE HI HATERS FUCK NOSY NEIGHBORS CROWN OFF CENTER WHIIIITESIIIDE LOOKING DOWN ON THE PEASANTS
