My City Lyrics - Singles - Common

[Featuring Mylik Yusef] 

This the city of Chicago 

The state of confusion 

The style I'm using is free 

Or at least it would be if my mind was 

Peep I'm behind cause 

I didn't handle my function while in high school 

Although I was cool 

The hood I live in ain't that proper 

Cause a cop a stop ya 

And have you at a hundred and eleventh before you can say not guilty 

I'm not filthy 

Nor am I rich 

Ain't that a bitch 

Like life is 

Not your wife is 

See that your better halve 

Do your math 

And peep that two halves make a whole 

And all I have to hold 

Is my self pride 

So these streets I strive 

Like a Black Panther 

Asking can the 

situation get much worst 

All I do is try to appeal to the masses 

As the phrase keep it real passes 

The teeth of too many phoney individuals 

Snakes, that smooth like criminals 

They create chemicals 

That the Earth hate 

Doing their damndest to decrease my birth rate 

I'd settle for lesser knowing I'm worth wait 

Or at least my weight in precious gems 

So I'm steadily steadly steadly 

Trying to lose my religion, like R E M 

Created in His own image so are we him? 

And through all this crises 

Shid(Shit) I wonder where Christ is 

Well he damn sure not in K town or the wild hundreds 

Where they broadcast G.D. till the world blow-up 

And Stone run it 

Hunted by police for display in state vile cages 

Come out to make minimum wages 

And with a desiese that are contagious 

It is fucking outrages 

The amounts of Black and Brown they lock up 

But the Most High encourages me to put the glock up 

And Stock up on do for self knowledge 

A brother couldn't afford to go to collage 

So I had to learn form the school of hard knock 

On the hard blocks of the Chi 

Even I, think about moving out to River Oaks 

As my liver soaks 

In mad Hennesy 

Cause I got a bad tendency 

To do a lot of drinking 

Now I do a lot of thinking 

Blinking, was your third eye 

When you heard I 

was one of the chosen one 

Industry doors keep closing 

(sing) Watch the closing doors 

Niggas want a record deal 

But can they deal with a record? 

Cause once they get rich 

They tend to switch 

Like a sissy 

Please miss me 

With all that bullshit you popping 

This knowledge I'm gonna keep dropping 

Even if you had one of them red octagon 

Motherfuckers say Mylik how you make your living? 

I say by breathing oxygen 

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