(Intro - Djiby)
Yeah
Coming from a place like where I'm from
You gotta learn to learn by yourself
Thing is we always neglect horrible situations we placed when we only put ourselves in them
But I speak for my generation
(Verse 1)
3 am street lights on, dime roads, crackheads laying on abandoned lawns
Raise my head headphones on, i'll pretend they ain't there like I am in my own zone
Gotta stay subtile
Prepare my knuckles
Look around for them thugs, snake in a jungle
Don't be trynna act tough, you'll fall into trouble
These n***as ain't got nothing to lose
They already lost it all
These streets play by no rules
You just try to ball
These cats ain't got nothing to do
Back against the wall
Our role models criminals
Roll by the millions
Change up all of the syllables
Claim that they just civilians
(Hook)
All I want for my city is that y'all commit to a reason, convicted to ambition or its Armageddon
What y'all call freedom is not what you are living
You can't call yourself free if you ain't self-dependent
These people y'all call heroes are just here to add up zeroes
To their bank accounts claiming that you all stupid negroes
"f** an*lyzing I guess that I'm doing fine"
Thats that 221 state of mind
(Interlude - Bob Marley)
When you have political violence
The youth fighting the youth for the politicians
Then I really feel sick
See, I find none of them really doing good for the people
Its divide and rule
(Verse 2)
So tell me who goin' save us?
Gotta bunch of n***as who'd k** for some geisha
Dont catch feelings, cold heart like amnesia
Gotcha asking why I don't care bout Obama
I'm trynna set my brothers free
Separate the good from the bad that don't mean that the bad ain't good
That just mean if you getting on the path of a righteous man
you ain't gotta spend your whole life in the hood
Rather play some Pac smoke weed when the message in the song clearly states that you gotta get on your feet
18 year old father with no goal, when you can't feed your daughter, who your daughter goin' feed?
Cops on the radar looking for a lead with no facts so we all look like felonies
k** a n***a dead cause he looked like a threat word to Zimmerman
Trayvon rest in peace
Injustice of this world got me thinking bout ending me, that'll make me a bigger hypocrite
So I spend my life trynna better another life till I turn to ashes like a tip of cigarette
Go ahead and trynna figure it
Why am I so concerned?
Cause in my veins flow the blood of those that yall burned
(Hook)
All I want for my city is that y'all commit to a reason, convicted to ambition or its Armageddon
What y'all call freedom is not what you are living
You can't call yourself free if you ain't self-dependent
These people y'all call heroes are just here to add up zeroes
To their bank accounts claiming that you all stupid negroes
"f** an*lyzing I guess that I'm doing fine"
Thats that 221 state of mind