Born into a world where n***as
Gotta fight to make it
Pistol in his pocket
If he want your life, he boutta take it
Constantly degrading whole races
Cold faces looking at you
While you at the bus stop waiting
No spaces in between
The ground and brown boys's faces
Jury let him off shameless
Said the people acting tasteless
I Still can't hear em though
I still don't fear em though
But dawg my people do
And I cannot support this senseless aiming through the rifle tube
And you cannot tell me to stop proclaiming
Cuz it's right to you
Cuz when your homie dies
I sure as hell won't be beside of you
I been spittin superficial for a minute
Need a tissue
Heard some n***as crying 'bout
How they gon' fit like that's a issue
Got some n***as crying out
Cuz bullets steady flying out
So why the f** I'm s'posed to care
If ain't nobody tryna kiss you
How the f** I'm s'posed to hear
When n***as yelling over missiles?
Why yo a** ain't she'd a tear?
It's cuz I'm f**ed up in the mental
(I'm just f**ed up in the mental)
Don't think I feel no more
I'm growing jaded
Pain delivered right up to your door
But who's still reading anyway?
They got me reading Hemingway
But n***as dying everyday
Guess it ain't real no more
Don't got appeal no more
It's n***as shooting down the block
We don't fear jail no more
(We don't fear jail no more)
They sent me off to college
I ain't on the hill no more
I'm acquiring knowledge
Girl don't want the pill no more
Cuz we ain't f** in months
And I been binging all this liquor
Need my stomach pumped
I'm in a bubble feeling sicker
All my n***as slumped
They trapped inside the motions
Freedom's what they running from
I'm sipping all this potion
Meditating Dalai Lama
Growing potent as I open up my motherf**in chakras
Hocus pocus, this is magic
Pull a rabbit out my pockets
Everybody dying, tragic
I'm just sitting in the traffic
Man I'm sitting in the traffic
Born and raised in Brooklyn
Where if you tryna reach the fame
You gotta get to cooking
Or hooping or shooting
Never wear a chain
Cuz it'll get tooken
And they often don't know your name
But know how you be lookin
And know where you be livin
You hide from them but then the cops is in the same district
Tryna catch another body
So I just be lane switchin
Moving quick holdin my breath
Cuz if I don't act right
Next move could be my d**h
I could be in the press
Momma crying
Pastor prayin'
"He used to be the best"
I was out there tryna make it
Made some choices, wrong decisions
Family told me not to take it
I was working, had the vision
Education helped me aim it
And now I'm jaded
I'm only 18
But somehow feel like I done made it man I seen it all
It's some n***as that's tryna see me Fall
But I been sprung for a minute
Man I'm colder than the Himalayas
Hot like I'm in Venice
Strategizing every stroke
Cuz man you're never truly finished
Just don't let your soul diminish
(Just don't let your soul diminish)
I'm just sitting up in traffic
Ran a couple lights
But mama taught me not to panic...
I still got my rights
Despite authoritative havoc...
Looking fascist
Looking past it
Is what I'm tryna do
The motions got me feeling blue
Ain't got no f**ing clues
Don't read the f**ing news
There's too much stuff I'm going through
I ain't got sh** to lose
Run up in the traffic
Leave a n***a black and blue
That's what would've happened
If I rode upon another route
Get to packin, move my trunk
And leave behind the roots
I'm branching out
Hide my green before somebody shoots
Pollinating catch em sneezing
While your boy influ....
Influence em make em better
Spreading quick like influenza
Take a pic and don't forget em
The light is green so go and get em