Gentrify The City

Listen to the culture of the city spilled on every block
Tore the city down and then sold out every penny bought
Many paid the cost
You can find us on the map but in fact the city’s lost

Gentrify the city
Gentrify the city
Gentrify the city
City city
Gentrify the city

Salt or sugar? pick your flavour
It’s bitter sweet around here
'White lines' get you 'buzzed'
White lines get you 'boxed'
White collar crimes for dollar signs separate our sides
'White lines' don't you balk
No bar that:
Life is tough get your hard hat
Just ask about construction down on South Capitol
It’s radical per capita these battle-fields for mass appeal
Are tragic, factors static
Bad as traffic
Demographics mapped in stack the cabbage, chill
Swappin’ 'sticks' for 'bats' now change the 'hitters'
Pay the fixtures just don’t let that pavement get ya
Pullin’ 9’s in the 9th 'three strikes' then you 'leaving home'
Peep the 'zone' these streets are heaters getting 'overthrown’
For flat screens, fat cream rooftop pools with views of the diamond
Feeling’ low? Let em go hit the bass/base
But the rich they keep on climbing
Livin the lie
Balls rigged
'Driven to sides'
Small, big
Ready to die
Deadly survive
Bye, heckle fate when that semi-clap
'Levelled' the Section 8: now that’s a 'city flat'
These politicians bet the state don’t give me flack
Just give us back our real estate and you can take your pity back
Don’t piggy back and boost ya pockets
Juice the wallets
Jewels and commas, Judas con-men to the ones who sacrificed
You 'crossed' em off and asked the price for profits
On that path suffice as nonsense
Actin’ 'high' as Pontus
'Pilots' pacify ya conscience
Gimme my 'credits' man I'm on-a-roll
I never tire
You will never see my honour fold
You beta-liars made your bed:
I set on fire
Mumbling’ you umpires
"You're out"
I just steal it all still I ball watch you 'hit a wall'
Mister stick I "hit em all" - middle of the Mall
You build mounds:
I’m a mountain
I heal (hill) 'downs'
'Stick' around him
Cleat the surface
Pour a forty for the forty acres keep your beasts of burden
Man these streets are hurting
Need a sermon
Fiends they feed the serpent
We just want the city back
Shit you built it on our backs

From M Street to Florida Ave
The home of 'Go-Go' ain't ever goin' back
We watched the Nats get the plaques
They took the 'ice'
But where's the table for the 'caps'?
Huh