Orange County (Peace 2 Ta-Nehisi)

[Intro]
Ay yo, throw me on the 8-track
Yeah
I got an 8 track mind
Rhyme, beats and rhyme
Girls, girls, girls
Hip-hop and time
But how do I
Shit
How do I
Focus?

[Verse 1]
Fixate on the future
Thinking 'bout a family
Picturing the Huxtables
But the comparison
To the Cosby
Impressing upon me
Sunny settings of suburbia might not be
So godly
Oddly
I'm still in the posse of NWA
At the Compton swap meet
Knowing California is the place is the place that got me
In a dream like state
Fly away and drop me

[Hook]
Go out to the county
Mr. OC
Living the high life
Until I OD
Work twice as hard
I'm winning in OT
Until my time's up
That's word to OC
Yeah
I'm Mr. OC
Living the high life
Until I OD
Work twice as hard
I'm winning in OT
Until my time's up
That's word to OC

Yeah
Peace to Ta-Nehisi
Looking for that Dream

[Verse 2]
Between the world and me
It ain't easy
Leaving voicemails
I fail to sound breezy
Pleading for perfect houses
Nice lawns
Word bond
I'm making a 360
Maybe foregone
Conclusion
Since teenage days amusing
For white kids sneering at LTtheLoser
Pro-black labeled a race-hating abuser
Until I got out of the burbs
Found a looser
Broad mind state of people
One staple of peaceful
Good times is taking back the needle
To the first notes of James Brown the lethal
Say it loud
Black and I'm proud
While the streets full
Gunned down brothers
The thought to keep to
Is that there's a dream
This rap shit can lead to
Cub scouts, cookouts
A place where evil
Can't put a bullet in my head and sequels
In my chest and abdomen
Bones cracking
Signs saying I matter
When the camera capturing
I'll act passive
So the Dream will have me
But hey, I'm still black
So maybe it's never happening

[Hook]
Go out to the county
Mr. OC
Living the high life
Until I OD
Work twice as hard
I'm winning in OT
Until my time's up
That's word to OC
Yeah
I'm Mr. OC
Living the high life
Until I OD
Work twice as hard
I'm winning in OT
Until my time's up
That's word to OC
Yeah
I'm Mr. OC
Living the high life
Until I OD
Work twice as hard
I'm winning in OT
Until my time's up
That's word to OC

Yeah
It's for the OC
For the OC

[Outro]
This the high life
On the beach
The needle's in my arm
Make sure I don't OD