Gentrify - Propaganda

And when you see them billboards yelling «cash for homes»

Gentrify

They finna double your rent in the construction zone

Gentrify

They slick but be slicker, help me welcome the hipsters

Microbrew, coffee shop, Trader Joes, Whole Foods

Gentrify, baby, gentrify

Man, them gastropubs and clean streets ain’t good enough

They want yours

Despite y’all crime rate, y’all got prime real estate

Continuing Columbus and they coming for your porch and

Planting they flag like «that's my land, I licked it»

Brother, it’s just business, your economy could use a boost

You know the truth, your unemployment through the roof

And the mayor say the crime rate is dropped in L. A

And robbery and homicide are down in a real way

And gang life and poverty are gone some say

Why you ain’t celebrating?

Why you feel a kind of way?

Boy you finna not fit in in the hood you was made in

The same corner rolling twenty stole your Jordans

Hopeless little boys used to hold the town for hostage

It’s complex, both guilty and victims, I guess

Better learn to invest 'fore investors come and get yours

We locals, we loyal, we hopeful, we home

And when you see them billboards yelling «cash for homes», gentrify

They finna double your rent in the construction zone, gentrify

They slick but be slicker, help me welcome the hipsters

Microbrew, coffee shop, Trader Joes, Whole Foods

Gentrify, baby, gentrify

Look, look they tryna parent ya

Exterminate the hood, boy their plan’s apparent, huh?

What happened when we handed hip-hop to the vultures?

An esoteric estuary mixture of culture

Not a convoluted Angelou of thoughts, it’s torture

A quintessential hipster, bike lane’s a fixture

I ain’t sayin' you ain’t welcome, please be our guest

Just know the city limits beat in our chest

Hoping you hope for the best, I believe in us

Locally I invest, I ain’t leavin' us

Overly I protect, these are our seeds with us

Told you we know what’s best if you agree with us

Welcome home

And when you see them billboards yelling «cash for homes», gentrify

They finna double your rent in the construction zone, gentrify

They slick but be slicker, help me welcome the hipsters

Microbrew, coffee shop, Trader Joes, Whole Foods

Gentrify, baby, gentrify

Yeah, that commute increased an hour

But got the down payment thanks to them housing vouchers

Slave to the mortgage rate, better not send it late

Better not miss a payment (ayy!) better not cross with Jake

Stranger in the zip code, what you doing here, boy?

You lowering our house value, it’s becoming clear, boy

You ain’t welcome here, boy, you ain’t helping here, boy

You ain’t got the wealth to help yourself, so why you here, boy?

But kids are in a good school and they tell 'em here, boy

College is for everyone if you follow the rules

You, you know they stare at you, you know they scared of you

I know this is all new, but they better get used to you

You home!