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[Verse 1] |
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[Verse 2] |
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Yeah, Harlem streets stay flooded in white powder |
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Like those mother******s runnin' away from the Twin Towers |
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Gunshots rock the Earth like a meteor shower |
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Bowlin' For Columbine, fear givin' the media power |
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Innocence devoured like a chicken spot snack box |
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Government ************* cooked into ghetto crack rock |
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Corrupt cops' false testimony at your arraignment |
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Check to check, constant struggle to make the payments |
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Workin' your whole life, wonderin' where the day went |
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The subway stays packed like a multi-cultural slave *************p |
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It's rush hour, 2:30 to 8, non stoppin' |
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And people comin' home after corporate sharecroppin' |
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And ************* flossin'! Mothers are tryin' to feed children |
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But gentrification is kickin' them out of their buildin' |
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A generation of babies born without healthcare |
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Families homeless, thrown the ************* off the welfare |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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It's like Cambodia, "The Killing Fields" uptown |
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We live in distress and hang the flag upside down |
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The sound of conservative politicians on television |
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People in the hood are blind, so they tell us to listen |
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They vote for us to go to war instantly |
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But none of their kids serve in the infantry |
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The odds are stacked against us, like a casino |
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Think about it: most of the Army is black and Latino |
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And if you can't acknowledge the reality of my words |
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You just another stupid mother****** out on the curb |
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Tryin' to escape from the ghetto with your ignorant ways |
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But you can't read history at an illiterate stage |
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And you can't raise a family on minimum wage |
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Why the ************* you think most of us are locked in a cage? |
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I give *************s the truth, 'cause their pride is indigent |
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You better off rich and guilty than poor and innocent |
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But I'm sick of feelin' impotent watchin' the world burn |
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In the era of apocalypse, waitin' my turn |
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I'm a Harlem ************* that's concerned with the future |
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And if you're in my way it'd be an honor to shoot ya |
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Uproot ya with the evil that grows in my people |
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Makin' them deceitful, cannibalistic, and lethal |
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But I see through the mentality implanted in us |
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And I educate my fam about who we should trust |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem? |
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Blaow! |