Gangland歌词

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Jason Petty/Lecrae Moore/Larry Griffin Jr./Luis Manuel Martinez Jr.
[00:00.00]Gangland -Lecrae /Propaganda
[00:00.330]We not playin'out here it's for real
[00:02.910]We livin'out here for life we tryna to get it
[00:05.400]Ain't nobody finna take our life
[00:07.20]I keep my young homies out here with these things my big homies out keep handlin'me
[00:10.577]And we keep it crackin'
[00:13.677]My other name should've been Jesse James cause I stay with my cannon
[00:17.597]I didn't have no choice I was raised right around the corner from where we stand
[00:21.925]Hollow points in it and all of that I'm ready
[00:24.205]We gang bangin'
[00:25.135]My cousin beep was a killer
[00:26.345]He done pulled a lot of triggers
[00:27.445]He done made a lot of mothers drop
[00:29.325]And if you ask him why he do it he'd just say I'm young and foolish
[00:31.695]Bang only right before he made them bullets fly
[00:33.345]He ain't have no sense of dignity his daddy was a mystery
[00:35.45]He'll probably end up dead or sittin'in a penitentary
[00:36.705]And tell the judge he can go to hell for the sentence
[00:39.625]And it probably make no sense if you would listen to the history
[00:41.735]The new Jim Crow or the old one
[00:43.525]People out here fightin'for equality and honestly I think they owe some
[00:45.975]Back and forth some
[00:46.935]Cleaver got a message for the people
[00:48.655]Bunch you with 'em and they tryna stop the evil
[00:50.384]And they cliqued up with they fist up
[00:52.444]The whole neighborhood feelin'like they meant somethin'
[00:54.353]Then it was a mix-up fair's got 'em fixed up
[00:56.173]End of the movement back to the bricks bruh
[00:58.553]And Raymond Washington about to start the Crips up
[01:00.862]They gettin'bigger every day and tryna fix stuff
[01:02.852]They saw Geronimo Pratt dodgin'bullets from attacks
[01:05.270]Guess they figure
[01:06.60]We don't really want it this much
[01:11.239]You know originally the gangs were created to protect everybody in the community
[01:14.799]There was lynching and bombing going on and the gangs were there to protect
[01:18.219]What people don't understand is that a lot of the leaders died
[01:20.549]Medgar Evers （been shot）Bunchy Carter （been shot）Fred Hampton （been shot）
[01:25.179]MLK （been shot in Memphis Tennessee）
[01:28.18]These youngsters didn't have any direction
[01:30.48]No leaders to look up to so they went rogue on 'em
[01:31.626]They say that Crip stands for Community
[01:33.376]Revolutionary and Interparty Service
[01:35.136]Way before the genocide and the murders
[01:37.386]A little after integration was the verdict
[01:39.556]When bombs might go off at the Sunday service （
[01:42.06]They protectin'they community
[01:43.406]Then it turn into diplomatic immunity
[01:45.696]Then a fight against oppression was the pressin'
[01:47.356]Now they keep on losin'battles and they started losin'unity
[01:49.896]Now they beat each other blue-black
[01:51.646]Force fed self hate 'till the truth crack
[01:53.666]Got they own folks hidin'on the rooftops
[01:55.706]They ain't finna take no more they finna shoot back （
[01:58.476]Now they bond like a family they all bloods
[02:00.406]From the concrete jungle to the small hoods
[02:02.506]Throwin'signs up now the crime's up
[02:04.206]We was meant to kill oppression now we loadin'9's up
[02:06.366]But never mind us grind us
[02:08.145]Factory the clothes now a lot of people jobless
[02:10.135]Now they got the drugs comin'in from Nicaragua
[02:12.255]Government done turned a blind eye or they liars
[02:15.25]It was a perfect storm
[02:16.255]I mean we're talkin'post-segregation
[02:17.284]And what are you gonna do
[02:18.734]The factories have closed and no one's hiring anybody from the urban community
[02:21.804]Because of what you look like
[02:23.694]And now there's a war going on in Nicaragua and drugs are being imported into your community
[02:27.934]Are you gonna to sell drugs or are you gonna be homeless
[02:30.574]Cause the government's not paying attention
[02:32.264]Huh man you tell me
[02:33.584]What's a reasonable man to say
[02:35.434]There's a high school in Alabama named after Robert E Lee And it's 89%black
[02:39.953]You don't see the irony
[02:41.373]What it do to a psyche it's simple you don't like me
[02:44.283]What I'm 'posed to do now
[02:46.63]Delusional calling that system criminal justice
[02:48.572]Where the rich and the guilty are safer than the poor and the innocent
[02:52.122]Why would we listen
[02:53.682]When American churches scuff they Toms on our brother's dead bodies
[02:57.182]As they march to stop gay marriage
[02:59.372]We had issues with Planned Parenthood too
[03:01.992]We just cared about black lives outside the womb just as much as in
[03:06.792]Young man gon'find purpose somehow
[03:08.942]And a nation was at least around
[03:10.882]And when them vice lords told him he was of royal decent
[03:13.472]And that war on drugs felt much more like war on the poor
[03:16.562]He figured forget it
[03:17.731]So why don't you come stay a while
[03:20.161]Tell us that the son of man walked on Egyptian
[03:22.561]And Eastern soil and wasn't just a Western construct
[03:25.391]Or master used to control us
[03:27.541]But what the master used to free us
[03:30.121]And it was a crooked system just like this that left the King of Kings bloodless
[03:34.651]Yeah we are truly a descendant of a King
[03:37.441]Only his reign is infinite
[03:39.380]And being right is a distant second to the joy or compassion
[03:42.499]Why don't you come stay a while