gentrified - Bigomuziq, Jalil

They take out they loans, purchase our homes

Kick out my folks

Jack up the costs, paint all the doors

Now its all ghosts

Black is just bedtime

Now we don’t mesh right

They cooked out the yolk, left out the soul

Now it’s all egg whites

(see it my way)

You like the headlines

Pics for your websites

I drive a honda, ride with my momma

Victim of redlines

Pen by my bedside

Sleep, it don’t rest right

I work a 9 to 5 then 5 to 9

Survive a life confined behind a fence of lies that you let slide

Gentrified, and they know it ain’t right

Colonized, and they know I can’t fight

But fuck dollar signs, cuz they know there ain’t price

That I would ever sign, tryna' say I can’t write

Why?

they get theirs, you get more

They all scared, they make sure

All my fares, can’t afford

It ain’t fair, pay your costs

You can’t take, what is mine, it ain’t yours

I don’t want your ways round here

I just want my home

I don’t want your ways round here

I just want, a place

To call my own

Own own

Put down your phone

Stop all your movies

Bring down your drones

Take all your groupies

Take all your clones

Move back to boonies

Back to your zones

Let me just do me

Leave me alone

No you can’t use me

Lead me along

No you can’t fool me

Fibs in your songs

Pardon my rude streak

Nice is too hard cos'

Light skin complexion

Mean white kids protected

Dark sin complexion

Mean dark kids arrested

Once making records

In they adolescence

Now they got records

Criminal perspective

What am I to do?

I’m just a kid from private school

I got a flow thats fire smooth and i know its kinda cruel

I was raised on silver spoon

You don’t got my kind of tools

You ain’t gotta learn from me see i’m tryna learn from you

Mic check check test, testify set me free

Black white east west, africa 7 seas

From the 248 to 313 to 213 to falisten

All i’m trying to do is SPEAK!