[00:12.18](feat. Talib Kweli)
[00:12.57][Zion I]
[00:12.99]Yeah, yeah, hey
[00:14.64]The cityscape where I stay is gettin hot now
[00:17.37]Unemployment is high and buildings is gettin chopped down
[00:20.40]Gold teeth populating the block
[00:22.32]Slurring slang they ignite on the lookout for cops
[00:24.69]Make the shots ring out like the liberty bell
[00:27.21]No escape from the heat that's getting hotter than hell
[00:29.70]Like the oven's on broil, with blood stains in the soil
[00:32.82]Pimped on in the colors of crown royal
[00:35.19]And little sister's got a baby on hip
[00:37.17]And her momma never home so the cycle is sick
[00:39.69]Young ballers on the court wanna play in the league
[00:41.94]But got knocked in the spot for a quarter of ****
[00:44.19]It's getting hot in here, baby leave on your clothes
[00:47.01]Much more to living life than emulating them hoes
[00:49.44]I try to speak truth in the form of my flows
[00:51.99]But the temperature is rising it's harder to grow, fo' sho'
[00:54.81][Hook: x2]
[00:55.05]Gotta keep my head up (yeah)
[00:57.60]Even though I'm fed up (survival every day)
[01:00.09]Gettin' hard to eat (right)
[01:01.74]And all the drama in the street (it's gettin hot in every way)
[01:13.92][Talib Kweli]
[01:14.37]Heads up, eyes open, rest in peace had quarters
[01:16.80]Tunnel vision, most of us is rushing [Russian?] like a special order
[01:19.29]Of stolen NIA [?]
[01:20.13]The block is hot the ghetto on fire, with more narcs sales than ave
[01:22.95]And barksdale from adshow to wire
[01:24.75]We keep growing like hair when you die
[01:26.55]Black butterfly on the rose that's preparing to fly
[01:29.07]I paint a picture with the color of the orquid, it's vivid
[01:31.53]Whatever kid I talk it, I spit it, I walk it, I live it
[01:34.05]God bless every step and need to go through a reverend
[01:36.51]Your boy used to gouge an eye out just to get into heaven
[01:38.91]We live between heaven and hell like John Constantine
[01:41.61]Doing crimes they confessing like a teenage drama queen
[01:44.19]We were leaning now were falling down like Michael Douglas
[01:46.35]I spit it fast, I gotta get it out, they might unplug it
[01:48.81]And try to drug us, so I stay aware and watch out for the set up
[01:51.51]Never scared to go head up, got a plan to get my bread up, and
[02:01.29][Hook]