DEFENDER'S RAP

• while you over there readin my shyt tryna
• critique my technique-
• you need to be tryna establish a way to get
• better at Writin what you preach-
• I represent the streets, and the folks who
• struggling to make they way to the surface-
• just cause I wasn't raised wit a silver
• spoon in my mouth don't make me worthless-
• but it makes you nervous when I speak
• bout my experiences slangin and bangin
• on the block -
• I'll admit it I'll admit it I had to do a little
• bit of dirt til I realized I was digging
• my own plot-
• a cemetery spot that made me feel I was
• about to die-
• every night I prayed on my knees that if I
• got killed hopefully JESUS wouldn't let me fry-
• they hate to love the vernacular I use
• cause I'm very well educated and book smart-
• I should be a publicist the way I got em
• clingin on to every page I illustrate like
• a book mark-
• maybe cause I gotta good heart why they
• see the emotion I express in every sentence-
• I pretend nothing they do bothers me
• personally cause I'm not the kinda
• person who seeks vengeance -
• while the mad folks stare at me wit a
• sour face like they been suckin on lemons-
• I'm livin my dreams in reality gettin
• paid attention every time my name
• gets mentioned-
• but that's my asphalt like cement
• truthfully that exposure is indecent -
• but I stay gettin lured In like a pig to be
• slaughtered thinkin I'm gettin special treatment-
• puttin my mind on paper is beginnin
• to come out more frequent than usual-
• when normally I'd get writers block or
• pen notes that are obviously delusional -