Gangland-Lecrae/Propaganda/Larry Griffin Jr./Jason Petty/Luis Manuel Martinez Jr.

[ti:Gangland] [ar:Lecrae/Propaganda] [al:Church Clothes 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gangland - Lecrae/Propaganda/Larry Griffin Jr./Jason Petty/Luis Manuel Martinez Jr. [00:00.33]We not playin' out here it's for real [00:02.29] [00:02.91]We livin' out here for life we tryna to get it [00:05.40]Ain't nobody finna take our life [00:07.02]I keep my young homies out here with these things my big homies out keep handlin' me [00:10.57]And we keep it crackin' [00:11.66] [00:13.67]My other name should've been Jesse James cause I stay with my cannon [00:16.40] [00:17.59]I didn't have no choice I was raised right around the corner from where we stand [00:21.92]Hollow points in it and all of that I'm ready [00:23.50] [00:24.20]We gang bangin' [00:25.13]My cousin beep was a killer [00:26.34]He done pulled a lot of triggers [00:27.44]He done made a lot of mothers drop [00:29.32]And if you ask him why he do it he'd just say I'm young and foolish [00:31.69]Bang only right before he made them bullets fly [00:33.34]He ain't have no sense of dignity his daddy was a mystery [00:35.04]He'll probably end up dead or sittin' in a penitentary [00:36.70]And tell the judge he can go to hell for the sentence [00:39.62]And it probably make no sense if you would listen to the history [00:41.73]The new Jim Crow or the old one [00:43.52]People out here fightin' for equality and honestly I think they owe some [00:45.97]Back and forth some [00:46.93]Cleaver got a message for the people [00:48.65]Bunch you with 'em and they tryna stop the evil [00:50.38]And they cliqued up with they fist up [00:52.44]The whole neighborhood feelin' like they meant somethin' [00:54.35]Then it was a mix-up fair's got 'em fixed up [00:56.17]End of the movement back to the bricks bruh [00:58.55]And Raymond Washington about to start the Crips up [01:00.86]They gettin' bigger every day and tryna fix stuff [01:02.85]They saw Geronimo Pratt dodgin' bullets from attacks [01:05.27]Guess they figure [01:06.06]We don't really want it this much [01:07.26] [01:11.23]You know originally the gangs were created to protect everybody in the community [01:14.23] [01:14.79]There was lynching and bombing going on and the gangs were there to protect [01:18.21]What people don't understand is that a lot of the leaders died [01:20.54]Medgar Evers (has been shot) Bunchy Carter (has been shot) Fred Hampton (has been shot) [01:25.17]MLK (has been shot in Memphis Tennessee) [01:27.16] [01:28.01]These youngsters didn't have any direction [01:29.34] [01:30.04]No leaders to look up to so they went rogue on 'em [01:31.62]They say that Crip stands for Community [01:33.37]Revolutionary and Interparty Service [01:35.13]Way before the genocide and the murders [01:37.38]A little after integration was the verdict [01:39.00] [01:39.55]When bombs might go off at the Sunday service (baow) [01:42.00]They protectin' they community [01:42.78] [01:43.40]Then it turn into diplomatic immunity [01:44.47] [01:45.69]Then a fight against oppression was the pressin' [01:47.35]Now they keep on losin' battles and they started losin' unity [01:49.89]Now they beat each other blue-black [01:51.06] [01:51.64]Force fed self hate 'till the truth crack [01:53.66]Got they own folks hidin' on the rooftops [01:55.19] [01:55.70]They ain't finna take no more they finna shoot back (baow) [01:58.47]Now they bond like a family they all bloods [02:00.40]From the concrete jungle to the small hoods [02:02.50]Throwin' signs up now the crime's up [02:04.20]We was meant to kill oppression now we loadin' 9's up [02:06.36]But never mind us grind us [02:08.14]Factory the clothes now a lot of people jobless [02:10.13]Now they got the drugs comin' in from Nicaragua [02:12.25]Government done turned a blind eye or they liars [02:14.08] [02:15.02]It was a perfect storm [02:16.25]I mean we're talkin' post-segregation [02:17.28]And what are you gonna do [02:18.73]The factories have closed and no one's hiring anybody from the urban community [02:21.80]Because of what you look like [02:22.95] [02:23.69]And now there's a war going on in Nicaragua and drugs are being imported into your community [02:27.29] [02:27.93]Are you gonna to sell drugs or are you gonna be homeless [02:30.57]Cause the government's not paying attention [02:32.26]Huh man you tell me [02:33.58]What's a reasonable man to say [02:34.81] [02:35.43]There's a high school in Alabama named after Robert E Lee And it's 89% black [02:39.95]You don't see the irony [02:41.37]What it do to a psyche it's simple you don't like me [02:44.28]What I'm 'posed to do now [02:46.06]Delusional calling that system criminal justice [02:48.00] [02:48.57]Where the rich and the guilty are safer than the poor and the innocent [02:52.12]Why would we listen [02:52.89] [02:53.68]When American churches scuff they Toms on our brother's dead bodies [02:57.18]As they march to stop gay marriage [02:58.57] [02:59.37]We had issues with Planned Parenthood too [03:01.46] [03:01.99]We just cared about black lives outside the womb just as much as in [03:05.27] [03:06.79]Young man gon' find purpose somehow [03:08.25] [03:08.94]And a nation was at least around [03:10.35] [03:10.88]And when them vice lords told him he was of royal decent [03:13.47]And that war on drugs felt much more like war on the poor [03:16.56]He figured forget it [03:17.73]So why don't you come stay a while [03:19.37] [03:20.16]Tell us that the son of man walked on Egyptian [03:22.56]And Eastern soil and wasn't just a Western construct [03:24.30] [03:25.39]Or master used to control us [03:26.89] [03:27.54]But what the master used to free us [03:29.28] [03:30.12]And it was a crooked system just like this that left the King of Kings bloodless [03:33.41] [03:34.65]Yeah we are truly a descendant of a King [03:37.44]Only his reign is infinite [03:38.34] [03:39.38]And being right is a distant second to the joy or compassion [03:42.49]Why don't you come stay a while