In the City - CunninLynguists, Zion I

In my city is blacks and blocks

With avenues and street tops

Where people struggle to sleep, Ahk

There’s trouble and beef, gold teeth, rocks

Get thrown at the higher power, but don’t reach, pops

Ain’t home, momma been long gone away

So the children run stray

Cannibalistic war play, it’s animalistic where I stay

The devil wan' play

And, too many contestants

That’s ever day

The level gon' stay where it’s at, stay strapped

It’s the mantra recital, it conquers the Bible

By any means, see survival

When friends turn to rivals it’s liable

For these confrontations to be homicidal

A dog hollers back at the sirens

The pain is so blinding

Forgot we all diamonds

Ain’t nothing uglier, ain’t nothing prettier

Than corner stores, whores, drugs galore

Exploitations core, guns and gore

I abhor each metropolis between these shores

And then I see it, faith in humanity restored

An act so selfless that I break out in applause

Giving so elvish that it must be Santa Claus

In the city, dogs, foaming at the jaws

That’s kept the voice of justice in its claws, get the gauze

Because it can silence the loudest man

Whether concrete, dirt, whether canal or sand

You can black top, but the back drop remains

With the same plots repeating like famed refrains

The stains stare at ya

Intensity of character

Gotta be Darwinistic,

Got a propensity to bury ya

Home of the merriest

Land of the nefarious

Tomorrow is the city that will carry us, prepare