hope

tired of my brothers dying every night, /

I heard every child has a right to life, /

so I don't know why they snuff the light, /

fighting on the corner their momma's renting, /

focused on profit sharing,/ just to end up dying on a stretcher, /

momma feels the cost of caring,/ world loved to stretch her, her baby, /

lying on the sidewalk, with ten second chalk marks, /

Her heart stopped, kneein on ground with the corspe, no sparks/

 

airing out bullets in his head, blood flowing like a data stream/

Yelling to the sky her light's dead, her mind sayin it's a bad dream/

Damning herself cause her treasure grew up watching the screen,/

pressured to make their life better if he made a scene/

because every man got a chain, but not a dream,/

Not carin for the brain, yet want all the cream/

old cats acted like a coach, couldn't make the team, /

Thinkin they're just the roach, who dismantled their gleam, /

when he walks out, he don't see an example, /

when momma gotta pay rent, it's like a spartan battle /

she's crying over bills without a savior, /

So he's out now sayin get that paper, forget the danger, /

moving like he's scratching bingo cards just to be a millionaire,/

unaware the world's unfair got a system waiting to ring his bell, /

But he's saying, " I can't be in school when my family missing dinner " /

That thinking lead him to a guy name Slick/

But Slick sells crack to little kids,/

now Donald selling drugs to kids he use to ball with/

he's not worried about what's at stake, until he got slammed into a cell, damn /

 

Yeah, but kid keep your head up,

always make a move, gotta keep the fight,

gotta keep your mind right, don't listen to the hype,

deep in your heart you know the game is a plight,

so please, don't be another kid on a T-Shirt,

So please, don't be the reason a family's hurt-ing at a funeral

So please, don't be another chess piece in the circle,

So please, don't be a forgotten name in the polls,

 

I honestly don't know how I even survived the plight, /

I was greedy for money when my mom cried every night, /

I was raised for the education but life has it pressures,/

I was walking in a storm just so I could see the light, /

Promoting hope and bringing smoke to every flight, /

Quoting Kings and killing demons with my every bite, /

But whem I lit my fire I didn't know I would be a guide/

And when I'm looking at the mirror i don't want to hide/

I just scout ahead and steer, then reach back and pass like a quarterback,/

Push em forward through the fear, just call me a cornerback/

pull a kid up from the trenches, I'm obsessed with the brilliance/

All of em relentless, man i love their resilience,/

I'm fightin for no mo dying bodies on the floor,/

Anyone crying for help and i'm prying open the door, /

firing to your left, primr ali rhyming from his core /

This is just another man fighting a different war /

 

Kid keep your head up, always make a move you gotta keep the fight,

you gotta keep your mind right, just don't listen to the hype,

through the night just recite my rhymes to keep your mind right,

if you need a friend, I got your back we can beat any parasite

we can break them up and leave them paralyzed,

So just go turn into greatness that leaves them petrified,

 

Black beauty black jewel,

I got black knowledge in my soul,

blackout when i spit fire and

leave a black mark on the road,

I care for every soul, not just those who share my skin,

every soul I cross, I consider my next of kin,

 

//[Vibe out to music]