Attack the Block

[Intro - from the movie Attack the Block]

You know what that is? I told you what that is, that's that alien, bruv, believe it!

Musta come from outer space trying to take over the earth, innit?

Well it landed in the wrong place, though, you get me? The wrong place!

This is the block, fam! Nobody fucks with the block, do you get me?

The B-L-O-C-K!

Block! Block! Block! Block!

[Sample from Dead Prez - "Hip Hop"]

It's bigger than hip hop

[Verse 1]

I ride for my niggas though

And we gotta stay alive just to get it, yall

The hood look like one big prison yard

And death is the only visitor

They don't want you at your best

That means they're at their worst

They wanna hear struggle bars

You wanna kick a classic verse

Niggas sleep with the fish like a pelican

Get that snitch 'fore he tell again

They killed Pac, he was too Machiavellian

Stood out in the middle of a room like an elephant

Because what he said was way too relevant

Never ignorant, way too intelligent

Now we got them running scared of the melanin

Used to kick dust in the air, now we're settling

Don't want you to vote like an alien

Came here on a boat like Elian

Gonzales, but they want your dollars

Gotta work them hours, it's so Gladwellian

Ten thousand hours strong

Just to keep the lights and the power on

This new New York feels wrong

Babylon here but the towers gone

[Verse 2]

Victory so sweet, but all we ever

Taste is sour, that's the agony of

I really be in these streets

While the only Harlem you know is a Japanese club

I know Queens that'll rock them jewels

Pulling out ninas 'cuz they rock them tools

We on the Island of Staten

Follow to Manhattan like a big fan of the Wu

The Brooklyn you know is the battleship chick

Spill your blood like a battle with Crips

Youngsters looking up to the same game

Hunger in my belly, got the same pains

It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang

In pursuit of the food, just to maintain

It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang

In pursuit of the food, just to maintain