Pipeline

[Verse 1: Logic] Comin' from nothin', try to see tomorrow People feelin' forced to steal cause they can't ask to borrow We come from families where pops never stayed around Grew up on playgrounds where killers spray rounds Complexes with regular SWAT takedowns Streets covered in blood with cops who barely make rounds That's why I write lines, automatics circulate the pipeline Lyricism that fight crime, follow the right signs How can a mother watchin' bullets rain, watch her son shine? Most of us taught to shoot and steal, run from one time A life in prison only take one crime, not one dime as we drop it This the mentality, needs stoppin' It don't start at the home, it start in the street Systemic redlinin' on which side gon' eat If you had to shoot and steal just to get your next meal, you probably will That's how the people where I'm from feel All we know is what we know, they done fed us a pill But when it comes to bullets on our block, we must appeal They make us pick a side, no one to confide When we young they tell us we could be whatever but they lied People killin' over sex, drugs, money, women, and pride This doesn't stop with the pipeline, it starts with the right time To open up these young minds and system Callin' community politicians to take people from beneath And put 'em in higher positions, this is your job to keep more alive That's why I put the gat down and never glorify Things that leave most families mortified, it starts at the bottom Change the young man's mind and you got 'em Don't just lock 'em up after you caught 'em Go and teach 'em to fish If you won't do it, I'ma do it, I'ma reach 'em with this I've been there, I seen drugs in the crib Robbers and killers, cook crack at twelve years old All the bullshit they instill us, feel like All you know is all you got, but it's not You are so much more than sellin' someone else's dope from the shore With a promise that you'll never be poor Nothin' but lies homie, put the gun down and rise, homie If you seen the shit I did when I was young, you wouldn't know me What I'm sayin' is, ain't no one perfect System is crooked, that's why you work Sell a key and buy a house, chop a brick and get a grip Man, that shit, it make me sick, it's like a blind man I'm tryin' to teach But you better learn the language If you tryin' to reach Too many people on the news, they just tryin' to preach But they don't know about what go down homie, put the gun down, homie [Chorus: Logic] Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that been fed up Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that never let up Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that been fed up Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that never let up [Verse 2: Oddisee] Reasons to live and reasons to kill A fine line between alive and hope you leaving a will So many lives paid the cost, we keep receipts in field But still, Congress got no need for a bill No traces, no faces, but the money is hard to hide Stock prices rise at the rate of a mother's cry Hard to let it slide, when they slid you wanna ride To live another day, you exist, but something died My innocence was lost when I witnessed a brother lie In front the house, his father bought, escaping the call of crime You can't outrun a bullet, they don't wait at the border line The county ain't no different, come to safety, we all deprived Hagerstown to Waldorf, switches to sawed-off The clip come with extensions, be more, but we all short Let's all apply pressure on the state laws, don't let up We all rise 'til the legislation's signed, get up [Chorus: Logic] Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that been fed up Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that never let up Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that been fed up Put 'em down and get up, put 'em down and get up This is motivator for the people that never let up