Since them towers came down
All this shit has escalated ya feel me
Police on the corners errvery day
Yet we stay doing our shit
But shit man
Do people really gotta be dying that way
I means
Why we gotta kill our own sometimes
Why can’t we just help our own
I means
Co op Is the best way to go
Decision making in this Tesco shop
Back to writing now
We don’t stop
hating our own
Soo many killings just Watch the throne
Who on top of this
Flipping soo many friends I see
It hurts me man
It fucking hurts me man
Empty regrets
I shoulda been there too
More like been with who
It’s hard to switch sides when you’ve got the devil on your shoulders ya know
Kicking and screaming
Oh this route is just so scenic
Fire brigades
Lights gleaming
Corners getting lit up
It’s insane I can’t believe it
I must be dreaming
Snows falling all across the ground
It must be a change of season
More mothers crying
On a dark bloody night
Coming home from work
Bullet in the head
Her sons on the ground
Another day in the life of a corner kid
Daddy gone ghost
And Ma won’t tell us the truth
Typical we gotta figure it out for ourselves
That’s why you got them angry kids ya know
The ones that act up in class
Talk back to all their teachers
The ones that never stop speaking
Can’t sit still
And nothing but rude ya feel
Then you got the smart ones that do their work
Reads books
Raise their hand in class
Decode the message
And are just inner stressing
Reminiscing
When the streets were soo good
Now we’re just robbing the hood
In the literal sense anyway
We all smart in our own way
Coz we know the rules of the corner
Changing everyday
We just adapt in every way
But now all this misplaced hate
Got all these gorillas going apes
It’s just like planet of the apes
It’s a war zone
us V them
As well as us V Them
As well as us V THEM
I listen to Dr. Umar Johnson
It’s a messed up cycle man
Here take this
Now get off my corners
This ain’t Forrest Gump
And I ain’t no snitch
⁃ Signed D’angelo
Kwamesayss
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