This is my ode to my hometown. The instrumental is originally Goodie Mob’s “The Coming” from the Soul Food Album prod. by Organized Noize.
When I heard the beat, I got the real West Coast feel. I played Ice Cube’s “Friday” several times. That’s the type feeling I got before writing.
Originally I w...
[Interlude]
Ay! They say home is where the heart is! Well my heart resides on the Eastsie! Shoutout to Lithonia, Georgia! Stone Mountain! Redan! Stonecrest! Decatur! What's good!
[Hook 3x]
Screaming Eastside!
Eastisde till I die!
Got my fingers up high!
[Verse 1]
I'm from the Lovely Lithonia, that's east of Atlanta
In the dirty south talking with a country grammar
In the state of Georgia to the right of Alabama
I'd like to welcome you to the black side of town
South DeKalb County, just the brotha man
Not that otha man around, really different now
My folks told me how it was them, now it's us
But things are looking up, cut a tree, build a house
Imma tell you how it really is in the south
We don't like to build up, we like to grow out
Without a doubt everybody want something of they own
A place to call home, chasing that paper
Shoutout to my neighbors in Decatur
Everybody moving south searching for something greater
I was born here playa
Welcome to the east, ain't no more space we already deep
[Hook 4x]
Screaming Eastside!
Eastisde till I die!
Got my fingers up high!
[Verse 2]
I was rolling on Panola Road
Bout to head up to the store
Tell me whatcha know bout Publix fried chicken
Finger lickin, fresh up out the grease
Need an eight piece at least, my family gotta eat
I'm a Georgia Boy, so I need a Georgia Peach
Ladies think I'm pretty like Muhammad Ali
I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
I'm a beast, the way you hear me flowing on these beats
Suburban lifestyle, I ain't grow up in the streets
Why act tough? I can only be me!
Life's hard enough! Some people got it rough!
But every story different, me I was raised
By a whole lotta women, twenty somethin mommas
That's including my sister, poppa smurf taught me how to be a mister mister
Everybody dropping gems, all you gotta do is listen!
- Zane Smith
[Hook 7x]
Screaming Eastside!
Eastisde till I die!
Got my fingers up high!
- Zane Smith
Eastside was written by Zane Smith.
Zane Smith released Eastside on Tue Oct 24 2017.