Invincible - Deuce Ypsi lyrics

White picket fences, green lawns, nice, rich, expensive College campus, so progressive Every child advances Lies and deception Difference is tolerated With a few exceptions So liberal and colorblind you hear a "beep" when you cross the street Let the bubble pop from culture shock and the cost of deceit Off the beaten path Reaching in my past How'd I get involved? Trying to keep the Klan from speaking on the roof of city hall But an*lyze oppression on the daily The truth of the deuce, city that raised me and failed me Even worse than the Klan, still asking Why across the street from Braeburn and Forest Hills is where they built the landfill? Colorful like mill creek– Most of us we grew apart but some of us we still speak Introduction to America, Bryant Elementary Childhood friends from Stonybrook now in the penitentiary It ain't coincidentally Tracked before middle school as criminals By teachers who belittled you, claiming they're "liberal" By 14 most of my feminine friends raped Many males expelled to Stone or Clemente Detroit was another planet – broken and abandoned We so blinded, close minded, hoping to expand it HOOK: What part of Ann Arbor is this? What part of Ace-Deuce (?) is this? (x2) They say, you from Ann-Arbor, right? Oh, you had it good, Don't get me wrong, these ain't your worse-than-average hoods But there's people struggling here, My family included Don't let the campus fool you It's a whole different planet for students Blacks we outnumbered, Only a handful of us But poverty's real for most of these families growing up Poverty varies, I'm sure it's worse in other places What makes it bad is They dangle work in front of our faces Like there's opportunities for the youth and (?) But it's a gla** ceiling Like snow globes for souvenirs Go in the south side You really see the patterns of racism Ypsilanti might as well be an African nation Second cla** citizens Second cla** living conditions Second cla** schools Are for kids to just skip in Back in the deuce Some of the best public shcools But so many of my homies still chose to hustle root Why? Ain't got the nerve to wanna beef and act foolishly Knowing our separation Is only about 2 degrees Something ain't right Something ain't adding up We gotta stick together cuz We got it bad enough HOOK: What part of Ypsi is that? (x3) What part of Ypsilanti is that? broken gla** sh**ty pampers dirty needles nobody pa**es off (?) we see the evil public education we ain't gon' make it ain't nothing change it's the same situation generation drug dealers tell me where that leave us? is it just me, cuz everybody smoking reefer? we take pride when we say we from the south side but that's small thinking i'm trying to reach worldwide different standards but everybody's got the answer making that michigan's white chocolate is dancer (??) to spot the hop, from breaking bullets down to rock (?) crooked cops taking money from your socks home sweet home, where it's impossible to foot the game (?) n***as sold they soul, and told 'em keep the change are we to blame? cuz around here, it's f** them n***as, like bush when katrina came prime made the south make when they keep the thing (?) wealth made the n***as grind in the frozen rain that's the west side trust me, the east the same stonybrook boys heavy like keys in cane (?) believe it, man, this is hell, y'all it ain't college dreamland, like they tell y'all south side, y-town, where the shells fall n***as keep answering when the jails call but i rep my seed, what i'ma switch for i mean, detroit listens, but it's the crib, though it's all f**ed up, as far as the sh** go, but if you ain't looking for change, then what's to live for? HOOK