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lyrics

Without taking the shortcut, tell me Whats the quickest way to freedom?

This life is full of messages only you could read em

In the hood you gotta foresee em to oversee em

In church my granny got her daily bread like per diem (4)

Drop jewels on youngins’ Philly gotta feed em

Cuz they dropped tools on youngins & teach em how to squeeze em

I never hang I don’t speak that much

But I do drop records with the hopes that I could reach em (8)

..This is Langston Hughes mixes w/ Amiri Baraka

You can’t tell my soul is rich by the spirit & posture

I Mirror ya father, young black man up in the ghetto

With the odds of veering out of a choppa, (12)

Wit no chute, just float through

Teach the babies how to grow fruit, Collard Greens more produce

They say you are who you bc of what you go through

What you gon do when the devil put his demons on you
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

They always gon tell you that it’s impossible
(I never gave up)

They always gon tell you, you don’t belong here
(Don’t let ‘em change us)

They always gon do it cuz of ya skin color
(We gotta shape up)

Cuz if you coming from a place I’m from we screaming
(PLEASE SAVE US)


➖➖➖

I teach my daughter how to count through dominos

Stack by 5’s to win, I’m from a place in the chi w/ the livest men

Ghetto kings in Heaven or reside in the pen

Life of sin, but deep inside they were some righteous men (4)

I Conceive life when I swipe with the pen, flawless

Through me they can breathe & receive life again

Toss yoself into that jungle & see what it teach you,

Draining the brain is step one as to how they breed you (8)

Step 2 is strip a resource for you to choose

Then keep taking and subtracting see that how you lose

Step 3 is shove the drugs in communities

But you gotta be resourceful that’s how you eat (12)

I know the contrary, get a job or go to school

But what’s meant for us could never be meant for you

I’m just here to give a voice to the voiceless

God judge man by his heart & not his choices

➖➖➖➖➖
They always gon tell you that it’s impossible
(I never gave up)

They always gon tell you, you don’t belong here
(Don’t let ‘em change us)

They always gon do it cuz of ya skin color
(We gotta shape up)

Cuz if you coming from a place I’m from we screaming 3 Words
(PLEASE SAVE US)

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from Cost of Living, released November 15, 2022

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