World of Poverty (Clean)

Lyrics

Loer Velocity - "World of Poverty" [Emcee(s): Loer Velocity] [Producer(s): Chris Jarvis] [Additional Vocals: Sav Killz and [?]] [Hook: Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth"] (x2) Children growing, women producing ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living ...stealing [Interlude 1: Loer Velocity] This is crazy [Verse 1: Loer Velocity] Welcome to the world of middle-class poverty Where underpaid folk walk around solemnly Land of the slow-grieving, silent minority Where stable income's for the fortunate few Don't lose your job—insurance goes with it Along with some bullshit too, so I admit it Seems I'm no citizen functioning Yet the common law works against my every flaw Not to mention the circumstance for war Recessing the state of the country at its core The blue-collared whore of a working-class America Hard times hit worse than Hurricane Erica For me, sort of in hysteria, bugging 'Cause final notices at my coattails, tugging Stressing, ain't no future in fronting I got to do something, man. I got to do something [Hook: Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" and (Loer Velocity)] Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living (Check-to-check, penny-pinching, looking for a come-up)...stealing Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living (Good times, bad times. Thank God we got Him) ...stealing [Verse 2: Loer Velocity] It's The stress factor, and it's not going away So, with no job, I manage to smoke all day And I'm falling off almost as bad as it seems 'Cause the workforce doesn't want us with self-esteem But I held it together, dust myself off Change up the medium in my process of thought But the more things change, the more they stay the same And nowhere in that process is there really gain (Yo, for real) I still see dudes on the block like it's a sport But, instead of a rock, hustling a Newport Three packs for ten—loosies if you're lucky Bootlegs for five, this city's getting ugly and I got to get ugly with it and hold my own That's easier said than done, but, yet, I'm grown, doing Grown man things. Ain't no future in fronting I got to do something, man. I got to do something [Hook: Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" and (Loer Velocity)] Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living (Check-to-check, penny-pinching, looking for a come-up)...stealing Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living (Good times, bad times. Thank God we got Him) ...stealing [Verse 3: Loer Velocity] I'm at A point with myself where I'm looking to get right What's heavy on my mind is how my pockets are light And it's past due time I confront my losses Gramps said, "A man's got to use his resources To capitalize on the shortcomings of life" Meanwhile, the left side of me's talking trife Mad convos in spite of what's right or wrong On my behalf, I just want this emptiness gone 'Cause, when it comes down to it, I have all say It's my story. I'll write the ending to the day But I feel a lot better about the calm in my cypher Say, if instead, paid for being a writer But what's real: outside my door, them streets waiting And me sitting here with my financials aching That's not what's up. I got to eat to live And I got to do something in order for something to give [Hook (Overlapped with Interlude 1): Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" and (Loer Velocity)] Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living ...stealing Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living ...stealing Children growing, women producing ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living ...stealing Children growing, women producing (Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living ...stealing Everyone's got to make a living ...stealing (Welcome to the world of poverty) Everyone's got to make a living [Interlude 1 (Overlapped with Hook): Sav Killz and Loer Velocity] Sav Killz: Ayyo, yo, what up, Loe? Loer Velocity: Yeah, what up? Sav Killz: Ayyo, it's Sav, son Loer Velocity: Oh, yo, peace. What up, bro? Sav Killz: Nah'mean? Getting natural and shit, nah'mean? Yo, we got, got to get this cream, son Loer Velocity: True. What's, what's going on, though? Sav Killz: What's that in the background? Loer Velocity: Some cooled-out shit, you know'm saying? Ain't nothing Sav Killz: Oh, you're just cooling? That's what up, dun, you nah'mean? But, yo, son Loer Velocity: What's good? Sav Killz: Meet me downstairs, son. Word up, man. We got to get this, we got to get this paper, man. Get our hustle on and shit. You know how that shit go Loer Velocity: True, I hear that. I'm saying Sav Killz: Yo, I got this little scheme, son Loer Velocity: Oh word? Sav Killz: Word up. Nah'mean? So, yo, get at me. Meet me downstairs, dun. Word Loer Velocity: Aight. [?]. Aight [Outro: [?]] [?]. Some people say you've got it bad, but if you shuffled through the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens, [?]. If life was... if I could get a... get a homeless place where... like, out of the state. A lot of people say [?] different places out of state that you can go to. OK, good, 'cause it's good to be out of state 'cause you get tired of being around New York City all the time. I was born and raised in New York City. It doesn't really bother me