How We Live - Apollo Brown, The Left, Journalist 103

I'm a product of my environment

Weed smoke and silencers

Victims run from gunshots where projects sit

Reminiscing to view skeletal frames

Memories of life hang from what little remains

The results of young adults accustom to gangs

Winos and hoes accustom to change

See everything circles itself to be the same

Under the eyes of street lights starvin' for fame

You see us in two seaters, sweat suits and Adidas

But the pictures all different up under the frames

Most starve from chasin' the street god, code name desire

Tryin' to higher up the charts to play the game of life

The price comes at a hang us height

We all buckets like fuck it, tryin' to dangle right

With no rope, just hope, with a dream in sight

The scope pivoting, I hope that I'm aimin' right

Where we live at?

Where guns get sold, souls get told

Where the Devil gainin' control ruin your goals

Where we live at?

Hoes get paid, spots get sprayed

Livin' life day by day, daily we pray

Where we live at?

Kids they die from bullets that fly

Where the code is eye for an eye go ahead and try

Where we live at?

Niggas get touched for thinkin' they tough

Their righteous will bite the dust, that's how we live

Where you live at?

I wake up in the morning burdened by the world's drama

From the war on drugs to world hunger

From my brothers and sisters being murdered in Gaza

To the children in my hood shot dead on the corner

So I pray for good health as well as endurance

So I can help lead my people up out of this torment

I got responsibilities to be totally honest

I got a mission to complete even if I don't want it

Steady I'm haunted by the conscious of right deeds

They help guide me in the land of the trife thieves

My heart bleeds as I'm stabbed by the knife of oppression

Cause the words I'm expressin' deliver a message

Manifestion of realness as the world turns

You can witness the devil's lies, souls burn

Now it's our turn, to carry the torch

Of our predecessors in the booth as we stand firm

Where we live at?

Where guns get sold, souls get told

Where the Devil gainin' control ruin your goals

Where we live at?

Hoes get paid, spots get sprayed

Livin' life day by day, daily we pray

Where we live at?

Kids they die from bullets that fly

Where the code is eye for an eye go ahead and try

Where we live at?

Niggas get touched for thinkin' they tough

Their righteous will bite the dust, that's how we live

Where you live at?

If your style is wack you better run and hide

I'm here to shut down your block for the genocide

Do or die is a slogan that's emphasized

In the inner city limits is where the children lie

Tears drop from the eyes of the elder folk

Cause the youth never listened every time they spoke

They'd rather roll up and choke on that good reefer

And pretend that they ready for the Grim Reaper

In reality, homie you ain't even close

Demons snatchin' at your soul like the movie Ghost

We get comatose

Numb to the spinnin' grams

So we crafty with synonyms for the dividends

We get nice for a piece of ice

Or a piece of ass

Depending on the time and the circumstance

But depending on the time and the circumstance

Will determine how your viewed when your life's past

Where we live at?

Where guns get sold, souls get told

Where the Devil gainin' control ruin your goals

Where we live at?

Hoes get paid, spots get sprayed

Livin' life day by day, daily we pray

Where we live at?

Kids they die from bullets that fly

Where the code is eye for an eye go ahead and try

Where we live at?

Niggas get touched for thinkin' they tough

Their righteous will bite the dust, that's how we live

Where you live at?