[Verse 1: Geo]
You never heard of this, city getting murderous
Occupation dangerous like Philippine journalists
Crazy and deranged they describe him in the same pages
That would call him terrorist, if not for the melanin deficiency
Gang problem bigger than just juvenile delinquency
Gangs is survival if environments is grimy
To begin with, speaking of which, let’s be consistent
Today is called a tragedy, yesterday a statistic
I’m listening, before I ever speak upon insisting
My name is young Prometheus and this is my opinion:
Watch “The Interrupters,” see ordinary civilians
Can't police themselves before they have to call police for help
At least a little space to breathe
If you believe all violence, is abhorrent to your being
Then why you oversee it?
If the killer wears a uniform but if the killer’s me
It’s normal if the victim also looks like me
[Hook]
Shots fired in the south end, nobody cares
Shots fired in the north end, everybody scared
Nothing they can do for us that we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror instead of somebody else
Shots fired in the parking lot, nobody cares
Shots fired in the coffee shop, everybody scared
Nothing they can do for us that we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror, nobody else
[Verse 2: Geo]
Can’t lie, I know the music can be influential
But not as influential as desperation. They saying
That you gotta act right if you wanna have rights
But what if you were born into a wrong situation?
Moral relativity — that passive aggressive city stuff —
Becoming history quicker than you can blink at me
Rule 1: Protect yourself at all times
Rule 2: Always end but never start a fight
Came up in the era of the hand-to-hand scrapping
‘til the drugs happened, now it’s bloodshed at transactions
I’m calling time out like Samuel L. Jackson
Playing DJ Love Daddy with the African medallion
Tryin’a do the right thing
I don’t have the answers
But neither does a person who practices double standards
If every death’s a tragedy then join us when we’re chanting
And not just when we’re singing and dancing
It's too many --
[Hook]
You never heard of this, city getting murderous
Occupation dangerous like Philippine journalists
Crazy and deranged they describe him in the same pages
That would call him terrorist, if not for the melanin deficiency
Gang problem bigger than just juvenile delinquency
Gangs is survival if environments is grimy
To begin with, speaking of which, let’s be consistent
Today is called a tragedy, yesterday a statistic
I’m listening, before I ever speak upon insisting
My name is young Prometheus and this is my opinion:
Watch “The Interrupters,” see ordinary civilians
Can't police themselves before they have to call police for help
At least a little space to breathe
If you believe all violence, is abhorrent to your being
Then why you oversee it?
If the killer wears a uniform but if the killer’s me
It’s normal if the victim also looks like me
[Hook]
Shots fired in the south end, nobody cares
Shots fired in the north end, everybody scared
Nothing they can do for us that we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror instead of somebody else
Shots fired in the parking lot, nobody cares
Shots fired in the coffee shop, everybody scared
Nothing they can do for us that we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror, nobody else
[Verse 2: Geo]
Can’t lie, I know the music can be influential
But not as influential as desperation. They saying
That you gotta act right if you wanna have rights
But what if you were born into a wrong situation?
Moral relativity — that passive aggressive city stuff —
Becoming history quicker than you can blink at me
Rule 1: Protect yourself at all times
Rule 2: Always end but never start a fight
Came up in the era of the hand-to-hand scrapping
‘til the drugs happened, now it’s bloodshed at transactions
I’m calling time out like Samuel L. Jackson
Playing DJ Love Daddy with the African medallion
Tryin’a do the right thing
I don’t have the answers
But neither does a person who practices double standards
If every death’s a tragedy then join us when we’re chanting
And not just when we’re singing and dancing
It's too many --
[Hook]
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