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Mad At Today

By Lecrae

1,212 views Sep 14, 2026 updated Reconstruction album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Lecrae spends the first half of this track naming excuses — someone who "put some malice in your coffee," slept through the classes they now blame for a job they hate, and finds it easier to be "mad at Lecrae" than mad at the actual cause. The repeated question, "what y'all mad at today," isn't rhetorical; he's cataloguing decades of it, from Twitter bitterness in the 2000s to the "culture war controlling us" now.

The turn comes when Lecrae stops diagnosing other people's anger and starts offering an alternative: "you a child of God... got a home in heaven, folks waiting on you," backed by a "cloud of witnesses" cheering instead of scrolling. He names God's patience toward his own wrongs directly — "God was patient with you when you was wrong" — before closing with a blunt, almost startling line of affection: "I love you, bro."

Hebrews 12:1 pictures that same cloud of witnesses surrounding believers as they run their race, and 1 John 4:8's claim that "God is love" sits behind Lecrae's insistence that anger loses to something older and stronger. "Evil ain't as dope as us," he raps — not bravado so much as a reminder of which side actually has hope on its team.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Chorus]

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today


[Verse 1]

First you woke up late

And put some malice in your coffee

Now you mad at us

Like we the reason that you salty

Got a job you hate

But you was sleeping in your classes

You ain't never pass

That's why you don't get no passes

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

Huh, ain't done nothing to you

But you mad at Lecrae

He too rich

He ain't got no hits

I don't like his face

Hate his quotes

Hate the way he vote

Plus, he probably fake

Wow


[Chorus]

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today


[Verse 2]

In the nineteen hundreds

You was stunning

You was smiling

When they gave you Twitter

You was bitter all two thousands


[Verse 3]

Twenty ten, mad again

Check the posts

Checking in

Where you been

At they throats

Twenty twenty five, you alive

You got blessings

You a child of God

To hell you survive

Just a lesson

Got a home in heaven

Folks waiting on you

Plus, they cheering

Cloud of witnesses who been praying for you

Feed your Spirit

Kill that anger brewing inside your soul

God is love

God was patient with you when you was wrong

Pay it forward

When it's love

Then they know it's us

The culture war controlling us

But evil ain't as dope as us

Plus, who got more hope than us


[Verse 4]

Hey, listen up, bruh

I love you, bro

Ain't no one doesn't love you, bruh

I love you

Peace out, man


[Chorus]

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

What, what, tell me what y'all mad at today

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