some stuff makes me want to curse
but it’s best to taste my words first
like the rubber bands around my wrist
I’m trying to wrap my mind around this
much respect I won’t use profanity
looking at humanity can’t help but feel empathy
what happen to my community?
when worse comes to worse
there’s still the first of the month
it’s just a set up not a hand up
push you back down when you stand up
give the brand up you’re in over your head
not able to afford that label lose your life
rock a bye baby in cradle
sold your food stamps for Jordan’s
homies in the hood shot and killed you
took off with your new shoes
this is the boarded up house… blues
black like my broke down back corduroy house shoes
I got issues about stuff that goes down
don’t make news but you see it on YouTube
if you want it to make news post it up write it on your wall
for the world to see, look what they’re out here doing to me
slum lords by the thousands are now millionaires
abandoned, boarded up vacant houses
on every block violence the code of the street
don’t talk stay silent tell me why are you
televising, advertising your crime
I see it all the time it don’t make since
where’s the change that was coming in 2008
instead of teaching a man how to fish
you’re using man for bait it’s a game of survival
the hunter and the prey we know the hunter
we damn sure know the prey
what we don’t know is how to get away
we out here trying to breathe…everyday
in this world filled with hate and we know
hate don’t resuscitate its prey
no families no neighbors just vagrants
that’s what makes a neighbor…hood
a hood living next door to strangers
a knock on the door is it a visit or incoming danger
I’m tired of plywood in my hood
tear it down I rather see a vacant lot
then someone getting raped or shot in a backroom of a vacant house
bring my sweet neighbors back I need a cup of sugar
some flour a few eggs not a handful of crack
it’s hard coming up in a slum
without being mistaken for a bum
no love no kisses nobody wants a bum bump
either you’re a baller or you’re a faller
a system failure the system failed you
since the day your mama held you
your birth certificate nailed you
King of the Jew now looks at you
stalled and flawed it’s better to walk than to crawl
you need a push a ram in the bush
where’s the unity in the community
“AMBER ALERT†the white babies missing from the nativity scene
Telling Lies, Telling Lies, Telling Lies
props and propaganda
panhandled scandal
doctor Huxtable’s… in trouble
did he or didn’t he? Never mind
that’s irrelevant the homies running for his life
and he’s not running for president
he running from the other man
with shiny shields, Tasers that look like guns that kill
though it’s been recorded, reported and retorted
the truth will not be televised
people get quiet when I speak
but when I see dirt I’m gone sweep
I hope you’re awake because all it takes is for a levee
to break and drown you in your sleep
are you awake now?
dropped a bomb and blamed it on a gas leak
we’re just wading in the water
I pray please lord
save us from the slaughter
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