Inner Harbor

I was sixteen rapping these bars
Open tryout at Camden Yards
Took three throws from centerfield hard
Charging on some grounders but didn't get far
Down at the harbor City Lights bar
Like the city might shadow its grittiest part
Paddle boat flight right past the heart
Like the water lap a wood Constellation in the dark
Spark violence start of their defiance
I remember doing street shows no flow science
How do you connect when you're the tyrant
Two Baltimores: Jack and the Giant
BWI a Brain Washed Interstate
Murder make the poor and the poor at a thinner rate
Labtekwon, Thelonious Monk
West Baltimore the loneliest jump
The riot and the protest phoniest ones
Or the real revolution of Oriole sons
What you get crossing no funds
With brandishing guns? Trash cans flung.
Freddie Gray a kind of dike sprung
Someone's son but really just another one
Quoth the Raven evermore come
To the shore Baltimore needs peace from the sun

My harbor the many die martyr
The fool and the cop and the throw them rocks harder
Why bother the docks much farther
We're all unchartered water my inner harbor