DWAYNE SCOTT: Dwayne Scott for Everywhere News. Citizens welcome greater police presence in an East End Priority neighbourhood. The Mayor honours 41 divison's Brian East and his anti-gang task force. I'll have the story at Eleven [1] DEVIN My mind a zoo really, think beast ‘gon scare me? Fear no adversary on the road to everlasting Witness the life of Devin Francis Invisible predator, preying mantis, phantom conniving, them Rival clicks, splash, they city of Atlantis When it have to spill, i grab steel More faster, start things clapping, paralyze advances We run the block, they can't stand it, and them f**ers, stand still My orchestration sound twenty-one guns raising Salute the bandit, hail, his dream stealing regiment Leave sky-lines blazing, frame scenes, k**ing ‘em Devin chalk and yellow tape, dicking down destiny, give a f** if she hate? Look, copped in ‘9-4, what you die for Feds want work, my bullets is time off The one, never lost, try me Fight the power, i'm Isley Find me seven steps ahead, motherf**ers move wisely Shook up the ground, now my rise tsunami Ease off me, like you geeked up D's creep up, calmly, when I strike, destruct n***a what army? in this street sh**, devin's green beret And Squads I eat up, like Frito lays, ‘till my chips see Cali highway Ain't no honour among thieves, just envy Get me? they getting who? Monkey see, monkey do Detect it, so predictable, and still Hook Get it all day Get it all day Get it all day I get it all day, day, day, all day [2] DEVIN DWAYNE: Will old rivalries boil over? Will this be another summer of the gun? City Council calls a Fall election. I'll give you the story this evening Bad boys new toys, they wanna blast the god? My guns lke Asimov, sniper scientifics, futuristic Your flesh fiction, split you, missiles feed that kalashnikovs Banana clip, you slipping, police issue snitch, edition Shells have your triple fat, fishnet Catch it, no beef, we hold heat, and smoking, body arsonists My squad build up, like rastafarians. milk, kilm Flip on cowards quick, watching, baby ballers, get, they crib lit up They mamas end up, crying on shoulders Rock strollers, hearts cold as ice bolders: Twist caps, we rollers, eagle followed by the vulture Sonny, dark soldier, switching, see? them shooters: lights out Money showing, ‘Bid, the sickest n***a out the click Dump clicks, dump ‘till, strap go “click” So garbage, ipsos counting as bodies is dropping Cause the city want this strip, now you pussies try pop us Simple preparation for situation like these: I squeeze, and you cats siamese Which persona? head shots, turn two-faced n***as organ donor Big sh** give the throne up. your eye's lid sewn up Can't see me triple the quota? sipping corona Sho ‘nuff, crown me king, that strap click, click, click Sounding freedom, spill your dreams, feed my unborn seed Save ‘em, ‘cause when night fall, believe it, hammers will too In my mind, see them, snitch n***as is stitches in time Out my mind? nine reasons we don't need ‘em And still Hook DWAYNE: last night the ave saw two shootings. a**ault rifle casings were found on scene. can the neighbourhood can ever return to its peaceful future? we'll ask community activist dr. lagorra esui on breakfast news [3] DEVIN I sit alone in my five cornered room, staring at corners Seeing scenes in candle light, a vandal's knife, these lines I write So nauseous, bloody hands, scratch page Luminati slaves, whisper to theyselves, ‘is he insane'? Got nuilty: it's witching hour, vision buries these Dark maps, my treasure chests: reality's conspiracy Pray for me. see my brothers worship power Night's they chapel, lit reactions supernatural Attack you, to ask ‘who, done it'? lonely travels Seen lost kids, grow heartless, hatred's where heart is Home, monsters starve us, ghetto synopsis: Big brother, had ups, then broke his knee up, who want it? Next play father, defeated, enemies up in that coffins Watched sparks extinguish, they fire still haunt me Raised by these streets and everywhere that wars be Saw it then, saw it now, nah n***a ain't never saw-re Capital-lies, on truth hurt, pain cannibalized in verse Re-verse years, tracks of tears, never quench my thirst Used to hang, she know my story, her memory like a noose This piece grace my neck, a promise to set me loose Waiting. the game, speed up, robberies and re-ups In the screwface capital, pussies get beat-up Got down, like heat buss, on ‘ashes to dust' Duppy conquerors: spooks in masks of imposter Have my fam move food like monsanto f** handouts, my dogs get a leg up, pissing Things considered, I know you can't, won't, get it Get it? repetition: Every path got ears and sky tongues They stutter, so i feel them silent worlds, where tomorrow is from Time speak in sign language. rhapsody's infecting madness Have us going, separate ways, write wretched words, set my world ablaze Destroy everything that made me, forget back in the day. see? Yesterday's a mausoleum, hold on n***as, carpe diem And still Hook DWAYNE: A lower concentration of poverty promises to reduce gun violence. Residents are being relocated to create mixed-income communities. I'll have this story this noon DEVIN: f** all that sh**, we ain't got no one to blame but ourselves…Go get it, whatever you do go f**ing get it...f** e'body else…f** e'thing else… that's sh**'s yesterday...get off that sh** and go get that money…these are the good old days...right now, right f**ing now...ain't nothing like today...word