[Intro]
Eh (Yuh)
Eh
The nightly news

[Verse 1]
You know, sometimes
I like to see the bad guy win
Commence the sin, ooh
Let the party begin
Reportin' live from the gutter of a fifth of gin
Turn on the motherfuckin' camera to look through the lens
Slash and dice, fulfill the appetite, we let 'em take a bite
Teach 'em 'bout this trauma 'fore we teach 'em how to read and write
Paranoia creepin' up, it's like a roll of the dice
They gon' feel more than a buzz, this is a hell of a plight
It's all scripted like it's reality television
A rat race without a finish, who's really winnin'?
Them job or a jail cell, they both prisons
The only difference is amenities within the systems
Who's tryna listen?
All of us are now the victims
Policies and politicians privatized the acquisitions
Poverties, conformity, they advertised a hopeless mission
Properties, monopolies, divided so there's no addition
Where's the vision?
I guess that we all blind and can't see
That everything comes with a price in the land of the free
That's your food, education, and shelter
It's helter-skelter
I hope that you're spiritual, only God can help us
[Chorus]
Who can you trust that will give you the truth?
This is the news! (the nightly news, the nightly news)
No biased information
We're bringing this shit straight to you! (the nightly news, the nightly news)

[Post-Chorus]
If you're lookin' for disparity, you found your news
We makin' millions of a heinous views
It's a dangerous game and we all might lose
You are now tuned in to the nightly news

[Verse 2]
They murder, they stealin', they killin'
We talk 'bout everything from crime to the debt ceiling
We give you all those cliché lines to get in your feelings
Let's create a new collage, turn heroes to villains
We force-feed you a new façade once we start revealin'
Inaccurate biases replacin' our journalism
Immaculate masters of deception, no activism
Inadequate perception, the side effect of this livin'
We packin' these prisons, fill 'em with children inside abandoned buildings
Slave labor, printin' this paper providin' poor data
Human nature, minor and major but our design is greater
Take your neighbor, turn him to a hater, send him to his maker
Glow from the ambulance is brighter than a lightsaber
Programming feeling like a straight shot, no chaser
Since 9/11 everybody fears Al-Qaeda
On a mental treadmill, running like Gale Sayers
[Outro]
That's right
And you know the saddest part is that the victim
The fatal victim in last night's shooting
The car crash several years ago
It has been a violent weekend
42 people shot, 9 of them fatally