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The blind stares of a million pairs of third eyes
Lookinâ hard but they donât realize
That they will never see
Reality
Who am I? I ainât nothinâ but a tour guide
Usinâ science like an x-ray to see into your mind
Iâm a voracious reader and a ruthless questioner
So if you hate the way I see things, donât shoot the messenger!
But Iâm not gonna lie, I get a personal thrill
Whenever I see science get popularized
So no, Iâm not objective; good thing science
Has a something called a âmethodâ that we can use to cross-reference
And acquire knowledge thatâs really authentic
Thatâs how we know the solar system is heliocentric
And thatâs how we know Charles Darwinâs theory was right
And every living creature is connected through the tree of life
Yeah, welcome to the future baby, a time when science
Is even illuminating the roots of human behaviour
So why do fish swim well and birds fly well?
For the same reason human beings lie to themselves
You canât see me â which means you canât clock me
You canât tell which parts of my signal are costly
You canât see me â which means you canât test me
Your cheater detection instincts canât detect me
You canât see me â Iâm the invisible gorilla
The blind spot in your vision that your mind has to fill up
You canât see me â but if you canât see me
Just imagine what else you canât see
So just close your eyes when you listen to rap
And youâll find a microcosm of the human mental map
Everything from costly signals to kin selection
âCause face it, you canât see your motives with introspection
Thatâs simply how the human mind has been designed
Thatâs why my mom thinks that Iâm the greatest rapper alive
Thatâs evolution â itâs genetic nepotism
And yes, rap is a sexually-selected exhibition
Thatâs why rappers are so obsessed with fornicating
Maybe high-status males just prefer short-term mating
And if you donât think status is real, just think back
To the last time you had a rejection, how did it feel?
Whether a job application or a chat with the person next to you
Having status is having people say âyesâ to you
So how do I get you to say âyesâ to me as a rap guide?
Should I get a PhD or swing more to the gangster side?
Yeah, you canât see me â so just close your eyes
And let my identity be a total surprise
So you canât see me â yeah Iâm jamming the signal
Who cares what I look like? Donât be so judgmental
You canât see me â and what if I claimed
That I was from the streets, just tryinâ to get outta the game?
You canât see me â and what if I said
That I just freestyle all these lyrics off the top of my head?
You canât see me, so you canât quite say that Iâm lyinâ
But your mind is calculating to decide if itâs worth replyin'
And if you call me a liar, thatâs âstrong reciprocityâ
Altruistic punishment, sacrificing to stop a cheat
And if you claim to believe, thatâs an early adoption
And you get to earn respect if I turn out to be awesome
See, every time we actively choose, status accrues
And every choice is a trust that others have a chance to abuse
And thatâs why we inhabit the world of cheater detection
And thatâs why costly signaling is naturally selected
âCause every organism only perceives what it needs
For survival and reproduction, like ultraviolet for bees
And sonar for bats, thereâs so much we canât see
But the one thing we have evolved to catch is cheats
âCause people act like cheats to advance their genes
When means the one place I canât turn my gaze is: back at me
You canât see me â or maybe you can, hell
I might as well be talkinâ to my damn self
When I say you canât see me â so to the whole human race
You can pray and meditate until youâre blue in the face
But you still canât see me â call me âhuman natureâ
Without using evolution as an illuminator
You canât see me â itâs an act of defiance
An alliance between rap and rationalism
âCause only science can see me
- Album:
- Big Boy In Love
- The Canterbury Tales Remixed
- The Rap Guide to Evolution: Revised
- The Rap Guide to Business - EP
- The Rap Guide to Human Nature
- Rapconteur
- Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams In the Western Wilderness
- The Rap Guide to Evolution
- The Rap Canterbury Tales
- Lit Hop
- Swordplay
- The Rap Guide to Religion
- The Rap Guide to Medicine