My Crew - Jean Grae

My family dream with me Under city lights

Pump the light

The screamers rights

Just work it out but ya’ll ain’t hearin’it

Words Travel deep in your spirit alone

I cruise the block

And use the box

To serenade the moonlight with the speakers

Niggaz lean back, deep in your seats and feel me Cliques and crews n’hoods and gangs who love it

I’m, lovin’you dearly

Keep hustlin'

Jugglin'

Pressure, life, and success

Those who made it Debate it Until another’s deaf

We buried ourselves under the jail

Without shovels, and dirt under our nails

Bubbles with crime and trouble tales

And street violence turned extreme

(Calling out names)

To rippin’joints on stage

To cuttin’fame time short

To life supportin’nothin'

But just realize what ya’ll done

We’ve given 'em reasons to scream on us And it’s just begun

What happened to us in the bigger picture?

Don’t you understand when one of us falls?

Step and we’re all fallin’with ya

C’mon yeah

If you believe

Then I’ll sing

And you’ll believe that

(All I need is the love of my crew)

(Yeah Right)

That maybe you will do what you’re supposed to do Don’t even say

That you’re better than this

I represent for a nation, thought we was in it together

But I guess it gets strange when money rains in sunny weather

Tougher than leather

We’re weaker than glass

And shattered on the side of the road

Trying to get a ride, but pass each other fast

Closed Aves'

Throw hash

Ice and Whips

Have blinded us Never mind

How the mind just trips for glitch

Shit niggaz

Rich niggaz got us in tow

If it’s not enough they gotta put us all on a show

Ya’ll lost me Somewhere between wakin’and coffee

That shit changed so quick

I didn’t blink and it cost me Fuck it, it costs us Do you even know where we at?

Fuck you, and that we’re here

You can’t even open the map

Rap’s dead

Rap sucks

But thanks to ya’ll for

Killin’it

Grillin’it down

And spillin its guts

And fillin’it

Back up with trash

.Wait up I mean cash

Bangin (?) too synonymous

With media politics

(You know they love it)

If you believe

Then I’ll sing

And you’ll believe that

(All I need is the love of my crew)

(Yeah Right)

That maybe you will do what you’re supposed to do Don’t even say

That you’re better than this

What ya’ll fightin’for?

For the light of the raw battle

Naw!

Can’t be the latter

Cuz music just doesn’t matter right?

Maybe I’m pinchin’emotions

To broken ears

And livin in years

When shit was spoken clearly

Without all the bullshit

Pullin’Clips

Replacin’games with court gestures

Bought pressers

Proclaimed the best is paid

And just forsake the rest

Who made it possible to be spittin'

If you got the same type of us women

That’s grinnin'

Then the joint will keep spinnin'

I swear

It’s like swimmin’with sharks

In public pools in shallow water

And some of these artists are fuckin’your youngest daughter

Feel me?

Aint no real fam

Niggaz is playin you

Trust me I wouldn’t let my brother have his way with you

I’m only stating facts

Shit is plain as flood lights

We drop 10

I wanna fuck you, maybe 2, 1 mics

I’m just tryna keep it done right

One to Unity

I want our crew to be Just like it used to be If you believe

Then I’ll sing

And you’ll believe that

(All I need is the love of my crew)

(Yeah Right)

That maybe you will do what you’re supposed to do Don’t even say

That you’re better than this