Lyrics

verse 1:
I’m from the land of redlining and predatory lending/
Gentrified housing from regulatory spending/
Where enslavement is right in the 13th amendment/
And if you miss a paycheck, it might the ending/
Where opportunities comes slower than a healing/
So we taught to set our goals a little lower than the ceiling/
Dealing with the dealers, the callers and collectors/
And cops are seen as terrorists more than they are protectors/
They gon’ just suspect us until they just arrest us/
Employers won’t respect us, lenders gon’ reject us/
Effects are detrimental, infects us in the mental/
Where it’s odd if your home got more than one parental/
Incidental consequence, now he lacks confidence/
Plus the lack of common sense, leaves to unconsciousness/
Meanwhile, the pompousness of the privileged occupants/
Leads to the opulence and profits for the dominants/

hook:
We work where you work, play where you play/
Eat where you eat, but we’ont live the same way/
Different rules, different doors for our boys and our girls/
We from the same place, but live in different worlds/

We work where you work, play where you play/
Eat where you eat, but we’ont live the same way/
No history of self, no privilege, no referrals/
We from the same place, but live in different worlds/

verse 2:
This is for the endangered tackling red flags/
When hope they couldn’t find with Apple air tags/
Picking food from the trash, sporting some spare rags/
‘Til their spots in park gets blown like air bags/
Famine when they come through, but nowhere to run to/
‘Cause when you pray for rain you gotta deal with the mud too/
Graphic notions; ghettos soaked in crack potions/
Souls get cracked open and lathered in black lotion/
This rap potent, in HD they track motion/
This math quotient equals paths they have chosen/
Jux on the quadrants, looks from the squadron/
On this chase for the paper, we’re pushed to the margins/
Prolif protagonist, inner city advocate/
Dependent on these rhymes; count on me like a abacus/
And after this, lets gather the activists/
‘Cause in the world where we from, we rarely see the lavishness/

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