BETHLEHEM/SC FREESTYLE-Vic Mensa

[00:00.000] 作词 : Victor Mensah/Malcolm Joshua Martin/Malik Yusef/Mek’kel Carter/Glen Johnson/Andrew De Caro [00:01.000] 作曲 : Victor Mensah/Malcolm Joshua Martin/Malik Yusef/Mek’kel Carter/Glen Johnson/Andrew De Caro [00:03.277] Yeah [00:04.790] Man, this nigga Thelonious always give me something I can breathe on [00:07.623] Bleed on [00:09.606] Shout to Johnny Smalls [00:12.060] Uh, this is ground zero, I'm rising from the ashes, uh [00:28.179] The first step on the road to Damascus [00:30.698] I redefined my narrative I'm Frederick Douglas, uh [00:33.570] I can't harbor hate, although they never loved us, nah [00:36.636] I tell my guys I miss 'em, they in dire conditions [00:39.648] Tryna survive in prison, praying they don't die in Dixon [00:42.493] Bro said send him some pics of me with Australian bitches [00:45.265] Back in America they treat us like we Aborigines [00:48.482] Original man, they tried to white out our history [00:51.409] As if the first universities wasn't Egyptian [00:54.557] Lauryn Hill said it best it's just miseducation [00:57.404] And Section Eight is just modern day segregation [01:00.453] I'm drinking from the whites only fountain of youth [01:03.393] They heard the cage bird sing, so I bought me a coupe [01:06.280] Pardon the roof, it gets shy in the summertime [01:09.083] When momma said, "Be home before ten I had my number nine [01:12.354] Thugging outside with them hooligans, ditching school again [01:15.229] The 'raq was my holy land, like the tribe of Judah and them [01:18.210] Persecuted at home, like Philistines in Hebron is [01:21.315] I'm staring past the wall, from a rooftop in Bethlehem [01:24.462] Remind me of project halls in lawless gardens [01:27.431] It's the same if you go back to Africa, Marcus Garvey [01:30.757] A people without knowledge is a tree without roots [01:33.274] I'm a walking contradiction, I'm in Saint Laurent boots [01:36.172] Mobbin', standing on the Westside with Chairman Fred Hampton [01:39.325] 'Bout to catch a red eye, back to my bed in a mansion, yeah [01:41.961] When did hip-hop turn into hip propaganda? (Uh) [01:44.972] They killed Dr. Sebi, they make mills off of cancer [01:47.971] The business is keep us addicted to pharmacists [01:50.797] So we too preoccupied with prescriptions for politics [01:53.714] Give 'em mass incarceration, leave the children fatherless [01:56.711] I'm the voice of a generation, we won't be silenced, uh [01:59.759] It's the business my love [02:12.145] I'm from the home of the, Black Stone Rangers [02:14.212] Where they invented gang banging [02:15.738] And they twist up they fingas, like they opps in a backwood [02:18.648] From where Gotti Moe was hanging, he got killed there [02:21.397] Pulled him out his wheelchair, photographed him with his pants around his ankles [02:24.752] Where they, indoctrinate young, hit the freight trains for guns [02:27.745] Drive 'em up from Indiana, or Tennessee with the Bamas [02:30.995] And blue police camera's sit high, like gargoyles [02:34.455] Crack your head to the yolk for thinking you hard boiled [02:37.042] Better, simmer it down, take that shit downtown [02:39.978] Six flags on Halloween, it's fright night in Terror Town [02:43.197] And them killers in killer ward, catch you in River North [02:46.293] If you whippin' foreign, they pull your ass out the doors of your Aventador [02:49.586] Eat Flaming Hots for breakfast, 'cause that's all they can afford [02:52.804] Forty-four percent of Inglewood, beneath the poverty line from where they, living poor [02:57.140] And they can't make up their mind [02:58.991] Who's the best of all time Larry Hoover or Jeff Ford? [03:01.987] Who drop dimes, load Glock 9's and John Doe 'em? [03:04.972] Where they changed the name from the Chi to the 'Raq to Drillinois [03:08.226] And the winter is brutal, put the toaster to your strudel, make you doo-doo [03:12.281] You on bed rest, living off ramen noodles [03:14.485] Where the North pole is bundled, and it's cobras out in Humbolt [03:17.579] You could get booked like Mowgli by the Moes out in the jungle [03:20.352] And the Lord's in holy city, He'll make you do the holy ghost [03:23.653] Shake you down like Diddy, if they suspect that you holding dope [03:26.634] You can't play around in K-Town [03:28.909] It's get down or lay down, buss downs, grey hounds [03:32.947] Throwing L's in L-Town, bumping DJ L sounds [03:35.262] Active shooters in the city, this is not a drill, trust me it's real now [03:39.366] Came for a photo opp to show your opps [03:41.743] You wanted to visit old block, ended up end having to stay 'cause you got shot, nigga