Victim Lyrics - The Genius Gza

[Chorus: Joan Davis] 

Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto 

Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh 

[GZA] 

Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day 

Adolescence workin for small pay 

World so little, he could never leave his block 

His home full of riddle, so he always need his glock 

He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smokin 

Young wasted minds, fiendin on dimes, cokin 

Forgot kids quick to break rules, and known to make fools 

out of many, down the streets be more safe than school 

There's no diploma, that can break him from the coma 

A bloody war in the country, the youth hungry 

On the corner, hyenas amongst me 

Yabbin bout the stories, they be hearin, always swearin 

Can't even spell the shit that he be wearin 

Caught up in the silk web of material 

Superficial stains ya brain tissue, that's the issue 

The young is lost at their own cost, dreamin 

Screamin how we never hold positions, that's the meanin 

Brothers of murder victims share the same grief 

The elderly shake their head in disbelief 

and no relief came till I aimed 

and blast one shot and left my name 

The GZA... *echos* 

[Chorus] 

[Njeri] 

My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks 

on torn down blocks, drug spots set out their shops 

and cops watch, innocent niggaz roam in flocks 

Romanism in tops, papers and knots 

Churches and liquor stores on every corner, plot to get money not 

some funny niggaz act like they could pop glocks and those who can't cop 

Sisters givin up ass a lot, brothers givin up cash a lot 

They be strugglin to become someone because their parents not 

Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle 

When the devil uncivils society and die free 

With double 'W' followed by J-D around the necks 

and wrists the God is now a dog, the earth is called a bitch 

and all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness 

To push a lexus, ice on everythin from rings and braclets to the necklaces 

Children molested within these pest infested buildins 

Thieves uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilins 

Peelin off, but all I see is lost black babies callin 

"Please somebody save me, please somebody save me" 

[Chorus x2] 

[Outro: Joan Davis] 

Just another... just another... victim of the ghetto