In My Neighbourhood

Lyrics

V.1 Everyday another gun gets manufactured Another man's blasted and some blame gangster rappers I ain't tryna say gangster rap's the problem But it don't solve them, it just keeps them revolving And nothing won't change lest we change If you wanna see change then be changed Rearrange your thought pattern towards action Coz if we do nothing then nothing's what's gonna happen As for this thing we call rapping Time to use it in its true power And give the youth power Death and life is found in the power of the tongue And it's not in the barrel of a gun I'm shocked at how it has become Every coward got a gun And they letting shots shower in the slum Young soldiers blamed for gun culture They the ones dying Who's flying them guns over? V.2 I'm waving a white flag Tryna make somebody aware And be like dag how did we get here? Coz by this time next year another young buck loses their chance to breathe fresh air That's why I make tracks tryna catch your attention Praying that my raps don't fall on deaf ears For sure the real cure is prevention And we don't need to see another mother shed tears How many funerals do we need? How many families grieve and crying their son was too young to leave them? And some claim it's a catch-22 Get jacked by a crew or pack a 22 And that's exactly what many do That's why so many of our youth never see 22 Now what we gonna do about it? As for me I'ma stand up on the roof and shout it I'ma tell the truth about it V.3 See the words that I speak are sincere It's death that men fear I know that life, I've been there If it wasn't for the fact God filled me I'd probably still be sticking up shops or robbing jewellery Licking shots at the judge and jury Coz they don't understand why a brother got a gun in his hand I'm a young man confined by limited chances In a system that's run by political gangsters I see their gangster tactics They got us paying taxes like it's a protection racket Still I'm the one who gets labelled as the thug they hate for distributing them drugs they make Man I thought that is was much too late I gone too far, but God's love was just too great A true faith from the Bible pages And truth loosed my mind out of higher cages