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Urban developments

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I'm in desperate need of some good news,

I'm on my second baby daddy, but I don't even know his name.

I guess that's what happens when you use liquor to cope with the pain

of my mama working 3 jobs

my sister on crack rock

little brother slowly going insane and the youngest just joined a gang

I guess it really pours when it rains

I haven't seen my sister in 4 days

every night I pray that she okay

my best friend on the first floor just got hit yesterday with a fatal stray

and not a hand in the world is big enough to wipe the tears away.

because I was born on the block

where a block always hot

and you hope to make it out some day

My favorite corner store got robbed

and the man that did it, just happen to be black

the own doesn't care that he was on crack

and that it could've been anybody, any race using that same drug.

so why do I have to be racially profiled for being a black child.

l mean you chose to exploit our urban environment,

trying to make a quick cent

no matter how your business adds to the growing rate of drug trafficking

diabetes and nicotine fits.

Now I'm not saying your the cause of it,

but shyt

you take some of the blame for it.

Now it's a hassle trying to slip for five cent

I remember giving you 30 cent tips

just because you always had my favorite chips and licorice

now you look at me so different

you don't live in this neighborhood

you come here and get what you can get

then go home and kiss your wife on the lips eat every night

and forget all about the crazy and scary shh

but I was born on the block

where a block always hot

and you hope to make it out some day and overcome it some way....

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royale jones says:

thank you much love!

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