Hook - News Reporter "NYPD cop dies after being shot in the head in East Harlem "
(obstacles I face and I'm withstanding, tryna skate up out this brick mansion) Repeats
Verse One -
Run! Run niqa jet serve and protect
They k**ing each other in my projects
That's what it is just a project
Tell me who invented narcotics the hood politics
Ain't no uzi made in Harlem slick
On that east its dark as sh** either you a cop or the opposite Last year police shot a kid and released
On his own recognizance
Jordan invest in prisons But I'll still get them
Saran wrap white like Andy Milanokis pride got me jobless same height as Eric Gardner he was selling loosey's
WOW! that could of been me
Screaming for my lungs people ignoring him
Black citizen no respect from authorities
Tell me get a job when they don't be hiring interviewers
Take my info & they don't be calling me
So it's back to neighborhood rats roach regular
Low income housing section 8 rent stub told my young Ryder aye wa**up wit the wa**up lets get the tree popping again
He said Den yo I'm waring crip up or grip up
I'm in Manhattan wit these chi raq n***as sippn lean and liquor real life beginning k**ers youth centers replaced with hair triggers all I'll say is they don't care about us
Hoping god forgivem who I'm to judge em
His pops got pinched bringing macs from North Carolina
Mahnnnn and what make it more iller his mom molest him
Says he resembles his father
HOOK -
I don't know if it's the place where I live is random
Or the chase if I'm just scrambling obstacles I face and I'm withstanding tryna skate up out this Brick Mansion
(repeats)
East Harlem, that other side where other guys
Don't walk to much blocks look sleep but the eyes is up watching all in your business and stuff young homie turn hitter to prove he's a real Niqa no money for the lawyer
Running just wasn't in him enemies couldn't get him
So homacide played victim innocent by standers
Struck by stray bullet
Is it gang relation or gang manipulation
Family gets evicted for his affiliation
He don't give a Phuck his thinking
Crime after crime let time plank in
Then the task force rushed in
Raided the brick mansion
Hook
I don't know if it's the place where I live is random
Or the chase if I'm just scrambling
Obstacles I face and I'm with standing
Tryna skate up out this brick mansion (Repeats)
Verse Three
New York New York Big City of Dreams
Big flashy cars big diamond rings
I really hope I make it to the tv screen
Living like sardines project never clean
Lobby door broke and all I see is phiens
Think I'm from the bright lights i know what they mean
Red and the blue and the white sirens
Nypd's the biggest gang I ever seen
Crooked officer crooked officer
We was born black they hara**ing us
Crooked officer crooked officer
Please don't try to k** all us bruh
Hook
I don't know if it's the place where I live is random or the chase if I'm just scrambling
Obstacles I face and I'm with standing
Tryna skate up out this brick mansion (Repeats)
News Reporter reports