My City(Album Version)-Common

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:06.66]Featuring Mylik Yusef [00:18.38] [00:37.28]This the city of Chicago [00:39.47]The state of confusion [00:41.64]The style I'm using is free [00:43.59] [00:44.29]Or at least it would be if my mind was [00:47.08]Peep I'm behind cause [00:48.49]I didn't handle my function while in high school [00:51.67]Although I was cool [00:53.50]The hood I live in ain't that proper [00:55.77]Cause a cop a stop ya [00:57.65]And have you at a hundred and eleventh before you can say not guilty [01:01.08] [01:01.80]I'm not filthy [01:03.22]Nor am I rich [01:04.98]Ain't that a b**ch [01:06.54]Like life is [01:07.69]Not your wife is [01:08.78]See that your better halve [01:10.61]Do your math [01:11.73]And peep that two halves make a whole [01:14.18]And all I have to hold [01:15.75]Is my self pride [01:17.42]So these streets I strive [01:19.84]Like a Black Panther [01:21.47]Asking can the [01:22.76]Situation get much worst [01:24.72] [01:25.53]All I do is try to appeal to the masses [01:28.22]As the phrase keep it real passes [01:30.88]The teeth of too many phoney individuals [01:33.81]Snakes that smooth like criminals [01:37.16]They create chemicals [01:38.58]That the Earth hate [01:40.12]Doing their d**ndest to decrease my birth rate [01:43.10]I'd settle for lesser knowing I'm worth wait [01:46.35]Or at least my weight in precious gems [01:48.73]So I'm steadily steadly steadly [01:50.75]Trying to lose my religion like R E M [01:53.35] [01:54.55]Created in His own image so are we him [01:56.51] [01:57.31]And through all this crises [01:58.86]Shid [01:59.01]Sh*t [01:59.48]I wonder where Christ is [02:01.41]Well he d**n sure not in K town or the wild hundreds [02:04.63]Where they broadcast G D till the world blow-up [02:06.87]And Stone run it [02:08.50]Hunted by police for display in state vile cages [02:11.75] [02:12.27]Come out to make minimum wages [02:14.24] [02:15.01]And with a desiese that are contagious [02:16.60]It is f**king outrages [02:18.86]The amounts of Black and Brown they lock up [02:21.43]But the Most High encourages me to put the glock up [02:23.87]And Stock up on do for self knowledge [02:26.38] [02:27.12]A brother couldn't afford to go to collage [02:29.00]So I had to learn form the school of hard knock [02:31.72]On the hard blocks of the Chi [02:34.01]Even I think about moving out to River Oaks [02:37.69]As my liver soaks [02:39.07]In mad Hennesy [02:39.83]Cause I got a bad tendency [02:42.74]To do a lot of drinking [02:44.01] [02:44.95]Now I do a lot of thinking [02:46.90]Blinking was your third eye [02:49.05]When you heard I [02:49.91]Was one of the chosen one [02:51.60] [02:52.29]Industry doors keep closing [02:54.19]Sing [02:54.47]Watch the closing doors [02:56.78]N***as want a record deal [02:58.71]But can they deal with a record [03:00.35]Cause once they get rich [03:01.45]They tend to switch [03:02.49]Like a sissy [03:03.81]Please miss me [03:05.25]With all that b******t you popping [03:07.21]This knowledge I'm gonna keep dropping [03:11.28]Even if you had one of them red octagon [03:13.49] [03:14.31]Motherf**kers say Mylik how you make your living [03:15.90] [03:16.65]I say by breathing oxygen