what tha streets do to me Cause they never talk peace in tha black community All we know is violence, do tha job in silence Walk tha city streets like
Switch man been too official, I've been destined to shine Won't take no for an answer, fuck, nigga, gimme mine Never been selfish for real, I put on my whole city I went
Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him
black, Waiting for the kids of this city to take their walls back. Verse 2 - Pressure I'm from the city of light, with a sky of vanilla, Known as the city
and he looks within For dignity Someone showed me a picture, I just had to laugh Dignity never been photographed I went into the red, went into the black Went
bowl of chilly Look - I Clap milli's, act willy, you a chump Only kid in the hood with elevators in his truck See, I flash bucks, rock all black doors
A shoddy clad knight of the road, the quest is underway Drawn by glowing street lights in the night, and smoke by day The city lights have pulled him
fill the corners up with light. Black spell casting against them now in the way that a bullet will go until it is stopped. And all the medicine went
shack And split those days in the Alabama heat We shared what we had but we never have enough to eat Mamma said it didn't look right, black just don'
guns of every kind He lights a plant and we start blazing Then I picked the one that shined It's an old school Calico Semi auto dark as night It's just
through painted glass for dignity Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve Somebody said dignity was the first to leave I went into the city, went into the town Went
bring you in the light like this CHORUS [Jully Black] Life is so sweet, thank the Lord for my days Oh, I'm living for today, life might be here went away
.R. Who got my back? In fact it's Figure Four I keep it raw, 'cross the city just like gore Rappers are claimin' to be hardcore But never no more Some just
'm A Paper Chasin Dog Check My Toenails And I Never Miss A Game, No Shaq O'neal More Like Brett Favre Just Like Brett Favre I Been Shot 2 Times Just Wipe
Paper Chasin Dog Check My Toenails And I Never Miss A Game, No Shaq O'neal More Like Brett Favre Just Like Brett Favre I Been Shot 2 Times Just Wipe
Cuz you and I got to do for you and I I don't recall, ever graduation at all Sometimes I feel I'm just a disappointment to y'all Every day, I just lay
know the situation I know they got cabbage owning corporations IBM chryslers and shit is what they seeing" Just then a light bulb went off in my head They be thinking all black
fear of failure She's not bent with broken dreams For the future's just beginning When you're always seventeen It was nineteen sixty-one When we went