| The city was cold
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| Replete with these sheets of old ways
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| And stained tenements that were built for bold slaves
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| Days collapse, street’s name, perhaps
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| Were traps, you could see it in the concrete cracks
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| The lost hope is smoked
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| The skies would devise for slowpokes
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| Dreamers who seem to touch zenith
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| Their arms couldn’t reach without touching the breach
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| A blunder, so the summers woulda summoned police
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| The heat reached through crevices
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| To verify the visage of the nemesis
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| No blemishes to find on this intricate design
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| And odd no-brainer, the container was the mind
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| The poverty stricken victims
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| Produced the paint for the portrait
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| So humble, yet the struggle was sold and went corporate
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| It hit the world stage and got celebrated
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| This odd mix of love and hatred
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| The ghetto matrix
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| The mantra of the mission:
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| Make money off the missing
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| The streets were the rhythm
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| When the six rounds hit 'em
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| The shells danced in the moonlight of sunshine
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| The blues, you could view them on the news at nine
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| The vines grow over headstones and then homes
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| Composed to give prose to the anguish and moans
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| The worries of the world can’t stop the cash crop
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| The blood drop signifies a rise in the stock
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| The matrix that enslaves us stops to seemingly balk
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| But can’t deny the fact that the act has gone pop
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| Nonstop, the plot thickens with his and her children
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| Echoes of the plight, like to have the youth listen
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| Is it ghetto? |
| Is it urban? |
| Are you certain?
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| Are you a servant here to keep the sales surgin'?
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| All in all, it seems that no one can escape it
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| This odd mix of love and hatred
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| The ghetto matrix
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined
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| It’s on you, it’s your mind
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| It’s a complex plan that keeps us confined |