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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