Street

[news excerpt]
There’s something going on here
This is not to be whitewashed
This is serious, this is people’s lives

Part 1
They gone die in the streets

[Hook]
Oh, yeah
Niggas gone die in the streets
Niggas gone die in the streets
(They gone die, they gone die)
(They all gone die, someday)
Niggas gone die in the streets
(Someday, someday)
Niggas gone die in the streets

[Verse 1]
My cool country cousins
Kept me from seeing the city
Kept a key to that bitch and a couple of them killers with me
My niggas plotted on the lot
When they landed on the land
Went from cotton to a gram
Holding coffins and crosses in our hands
When we raise em to the air hallelujah
A dead man
The price we paying for our breathing is too much to withstand
And i am not abolishing or tryna take a stand
So don’t say there goes that masta man with the master plan
Stop it
Try a different take
Use a different rake for the snakes
Leave them niggas grazed
Leave em where they lay
Or they lie cause I know they do
They taught you that in middle school
Reds or blues, apples too
Bite the dust and save a plate
For a later date
Or just pray
We saved ‘em anyway
I remember back in ‘05
Scarface bumped in our ride
Shine with times, it’s sublime
This the time of our lives
And we living this live
And you lying and you buying but your record deal is lying
Socialized greetings and they buying all the fucking youth
Take a break in the booth
Whoo!
I made it out my fucking noose
I’m innocuous proof of the shit you ain’t bumping
But we pumping and we piping and we only smoke the hybrid
The highlands are my shining
I hop out and I’m rhyming
I hop out and I’m rhyming
I’m a shaman and I’m shining
I’m shining, I’m shining in the streets
I ain’t lying

Part two

[Hook]
Yea
I’m shining in the streets and I ain’t lying yeah
Yea
I’m shining in the streets and I ain’t lying yeah

[news excerpt]
The best that we can hope for from the police department is that they be more transparent and work with the public to fight real crime and to not play with these numbers

[Hook]
Yea
I’m shining in the streets and i ain’t lying yeah

Part three
[news excerpt]
That’s a people problem. We’re going to have to work with individuals in our community to show them other ways to resolve conflict

[Verse 2]
Gather round to the street corner
Where we made dirty dollars slangin marijuana
We had a dream but and it was mighty forward
Track back to the track we made about that nigga who dipped in the ford focus after i shorted him
And there was more of em
We went at it about the money made
And it was a habit to make a habit
Whatever you needed i swear i had to have it
You were my brother, there was no other that understood where i was coming from
I swear i didn't know where those niggas were coming from
We hit back with the 22, it busted like doot doot, and then poof, in an instant the bullets came through to you, and i was proof i would've gotten hit too
If it wasn't for you, i wouldn't be here. i never went to your burial, i'd feel guilty that i can breathe here, and these fears, are guided by these tears, i love you from the bottom of the bottoms, i'll be here, I’ll be here, I’ll be here

(I’ll be here waiting for you)

I swear I didn’t know where those bullets were coming from
I swear I didn’t know where those bullets were coming from
Damn, and you done
And I’m Don
Still the one
I love you
Fuck

[news excerpt]
The most dangerous area for murders: jackson’s police precinct 1. This area in south Jackson has seen 14 murders so far this year, a 180% increase from last year. Only 5 murders were committed here in 2010, the lowest in the city. So what has changed to cause this increase? ‘Nothing except that that’s where they occurred.’ But for the folks who live and work in this area, these numbers don’t worry them