So this joint right here… My parts of the song anyway – for KB’s, well his inspiration is being a black man in America. I’m sure he could tell stories. That’s my brother always. Anyway, this song was inspired by both the Tech N9ne song “Red Necro” as well as a particular incident I had at work with a racist guy. I’ve had plenty of others, but this one really got in my craw, as minor as it might seem. Just the existence of racists, and really bigots in general – transphobes, homophobes, Islamophobes, it really makes me sick. So, the story.

I was working at Walmart back in 2013, and that night while I was pulling a pallet of water to the sales floor for the stockers (I was truck crew) and had my had one headphone in my ear, the other hanging from my shirt collar. Volume absolutely cranked and I was listening to hip-hop of course. I’m a hip-hop head. Live and breathe this rap shit. So, as I was pulling one of these heavy-ass pallets of water, a night stocker hollered at me to stop, so I did. Guess he heard the rap beats from my headphones, since they were all the way up. He said something like “what are you listening to that trash for?” I responded and explained that it’s my passion and that I rap myself. He said “you know they’ll never accept you right? You’ll never be one of them.” I’ve never been good at hiding my emotions, so I’m sure the offense was evident on my face. I think I said something like “you don’t know shit and that’s fucking racist.” I guess he wanted to scare me or something because he said “you know, I’ve done hard time” and flashed his shirt sleeve up revealing an SS tattoo. But as much as I have always hated white supremacists, I was also a much different, vastly less politically informed and aware, and a less traumatized, less angry person back then. I told the guy “whatever asshole, I have work to do” and put my other headphone in and resumed my wage slave duties, privately fuming. I wrote this song that night after my shift and recorded the song later.