[Intro: Ransom]
Is anyone out there?
Anyone? Come on man
Somebody answer
It’s a war out here man
It’s not safe
[Verse 1: Ransom]
My nigga Spesh said I should show my face
'Cause if they don't see you, how they gon' know you great?
But me around a crowd right now is too big a show of faith
It's one thing just to know the hate
But I can feel it so deep inside, it causes my bones to ache
I won't give them my soul to take
You know this place, it been slaughter, disorder
You could run game but not on a pimp's daughter
These the things that I've been taught ya
Extremities and limbs tortured, this sort of
The kind of feelings I felt when I seen Obama sip on that Flint watеr
Don't get caught up, how could your mental change if it's nеver challenged?
Told this youngin' once he stopped spinning, he'll find a better balance
Had some talent, but he slid off the rails and it cost him
Grabbed his hammer went drilling and now it's nails in his coffin
What you offering? I came from that place where nobody's doors was locked
We stalked the block, them neighbors hit kids and nobody called the cops
Them Puerto Rocks called us negros but they never thought to stop
Where fiends had bras and socks, DVDs in the barber shop
Your friends called your father pops, at least you had a father, nigga
I was looking up to Phil Drummond, he was my father figure
Dreaming of a Lisa Bonet or sleeping with Carlton's sister
Ended up getting my dick sucked by fiends in apartments quicker
After hour bars and liquor, dancing with a scarred up stripper
Walking to the car in slippers, handing out some jars to sniffers
Guess you had to be there, that sign on the gate that told us beware
But if we had listened, you think we'd be here?
[Verse 2: Che Noir]
I got rich vision, natural long hair, and I got chocolate skin
With the sharpest pen, saw more losses before I saw a win
It's hard to swim after burnt bridges but that's the consequence
The cause is grim, plus I'm still paying for all my father's sins
My heart is fenced off from the people I used to call my friends
Them niggas took miles off my favors, that's what they call a inch
Been starving since I was a poor kid on my mama's tits
I been on that shit, that niggas now calling trends
Squeeze medals to 'em, we rebels to 'em
Leave a witness in terror, it's like the screams echo to 'em
Make it in hoops or rap? They said them dreams ghetto to 'em
Rappers think it's they time, I'm like a reschedule to 'em
'Cause I don't give mercy to rappers, it's like the devil to 'em
Brain shot to your head as soon as I say hello to 'em
Make your body disappear, it's like they never knew 'em
Your family won't get your body back 'less I sell it to 'em
Feed to the yellow dust, the town where the ghetto sluts
Think a move to Atlanta is a sign that they leveled up
Just by the people that you run with could tell you're dumb
Why? 'Cause you hang around niggas I never trust
I don't wish you the best of luck, they walk with the Desert tuck
If they ain't then you better duck or end with your head in blood
What's taught that it's always somebody who had less than us
So I stayed in my lane and never worried 'bout catching up
