Lyrical Breakdown of All Falls Down - A Journey through Words and Rhymes

Oh, when it all (yeah), it all falls down (this the real one baby)

I'm telling you all (uh, Chi-Town stand up), it all falls down

Oh, when it all (Southside, Southside)

It all falls down (we gon' set this party off right)

I'm telling you all (Westside, Westside)

It all falls down (we gon' set this party off right)

Man, I promise, she's so self-conscious

She has no idea what she doing in college

That major that she majored in don't make no money

But she won't drop out, her parents'll look at her funny

Now, tell me that ain't insecurr

The concept of school seems so securr

Sophomore three yerrs ain't picked a carerr

She like, "Fuck it, I'll just stay down herre and do hair"

'Cause that's enough money to buy her a few pairs of new Airs

'Cause her baby daddy don't really care

She's so precious with the peer pressure

Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus

She had hair so long that it looked like weave

Then she cut it all off now she look like Eve

And she be dealing with some issues that you can't believe

Single black female addicted to retail and well

Oh, when it all (uh)

It all falls down (and when it falls down, who you gon' call now?)

I'm telling you all (come on, come on)

It all falls down (and when it all falls down)

Oh, when it all

Man I promise, I'm so self-conscious

That's why you always see me with at least one of my watches

Rollies and Pashas done drove me crazy

I can't even pronounce nothin', pass that Ver-say-see

Then I spent four hundred bucks on this

Just to be like, "Nigga, you ain't up on this"

And I can't even go to the grocery store

Without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team

It seems we living the American Dream

But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem

The prettiest people do the ugliest things

For the road to riches and diamond rings

We shine because they hate us, floss 'cause they degrade us

We tryna buy back our 40 acres

And for that paper, look how low we a'stoop

Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coupe

Oh, when it all

It all falls down (and when it falls down, who you gon' call now?)

I'm telling you all (come on, come on)

It all falls down (and when it all falls down)

Oh, when it all

I say fuck the police, thats how I treat 'em

We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom

We'll buy a lot of clothes, but we don't really need 'em

Things we buy to cover up what's inside

'Cause they made us hate ourself and love they wealth

That's why shorty's hollering, "Where the ballers at?"

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack

And a white man get paid off of all of that

But I ain't even gon' act holier than thou

'Cause fuck it, I went to Jacob with 25 thou'

Before I had a house and I'd do it again

'Cause I wanna be on 106 & Park, pushing a Benz

I wanna act ballerific like it's all terrific

I got a couple past due bills, I won't get specific

I got a problem with spending before I get it

We all self-conscious I'm just the first to admit it

Oh, when it all (yeah, come on, come on)

It all falls down (and when it falls down, who you gon' call now?)

I'm telling you all (come on, come on)

It all falls down (and when it all falls down)

Oh, when it all (Southside, Southside)

It all falls down (we gon' set this party off right)

I'm telling you all (Westside, Westside)

It all falls down (we gon' set this party off right)

Oh, when it all (Chi-Town Chi-Town)

It all falls down (we gon show 'em how we get down)

I'm telling you all, it all falls down (now, Syleena, you just like a safe belt, you saved my life)

Oh, when it all, it all falls down

I'm telling you ohh, it all falls down

Us can't keep working like this, this graveshift, it's like a slaveship