Who knew Nick Cannon was so eloquent? Featuring footage from his hospitalization earlier this year due to kidney failure, Nick Cannon’s Spoken Sunday piece “Coughing Up Bullshit” explores common sense, or lack thereof, the smoke and mirrors of social media, and paparazzi.

A snippet of the lyrics are below:

Doc, I think I caught some shit called common sense and it got me coughing up bullshit.
The Devil’s greatest trick is convincing the world he didn’t exist.
But this sickness is not to be fooled with.
Damn I think I caught some shit called common sense. It got me coughing up bullshit.
It got my entire soul hurting, because to increase one’s knowledge is to increase one’s burden.
So I think I caught some shit called common sense. It got me coughing up bullshit.
Regurgitating all the words I learned from my father’s pulpit.
I thought I was immune to the system.
But this the same government that flooded my community with syphilis.