Memories On 47th St. (Explicit)-Vic Mensa

[ti:Memories On 47th St. (Explicit)] [ar:Vic Mensa] [al:The Autobiography] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Memories On 47th St. (第47大街上的回忆) (Explicit) - Vic Mensa [00:00.02]Written by：Victor Mensah/Larrance Dopson/Ernest Dion Wilson/Dacoury Natche/Malik Yusef Jones [00:00.16]Memories memories [00:03.41] [00:15.21]Oh [00:15.62] [00:19.80]I am the first son of Betsy and Edward Mensah [00:23.44] [00:23.97]Made love and made a legend Woodlawn and 47th [00:27.70]Gunshots outside my window drug deals out by the Citgo [00:31.67]But mama always made sure the tooth fairy found my pillow [00:35.44]My pops was always working he put the family first [00:39.38]Chicago Saturdays in the park and Sundays at church [00:43.35]Kept me from off the corner where Stones and GDs was warring [00:46.97]And Kings and BDs and VLs all had dreams of being Jordan [00:50.91]Even d**e fiends was scoring swish tryna be like Mike [00:54.89]Shooting through that baseline in their veins tryna reach that height [00:58.97]I was a little rockstar dressed up like Jimi Hendrix [01:02.81]In Hyde Park in the good part in the hood like Hemi engines [01:06.54]Teachers didn't see my vision had me in IEPs [01:09.93] [01:10.68]Kicked out of kindergarten they didn't know that I was me [01:14.54]Tattooed my tears wrote my story in my skin [01:17.87]Because even as a boy I always knew I'd be the man [01:21.56]In my dreams in my dreams [01:24.76]I saw it in my sleep yeah [01:27.91] [01:28.63]The city will be mine all mine all mine all mine all mine all mine [01:34.01] [01:37.17]Memories [01:38.70] [01:40.63]On 47th street yeah [01:43.82] [01:44.38]One day it will be mine all mine all mine all mine all mine [01:48.83]All mine [01:49.56] [01:53.69]At age 12 I learned the difference between white and black [01:57.59]Police pulled me off of my bike I landed on my back [02:01.31]Back to reality oops a victim of gravity [02:04.27] [02:04.81]Where they pull you down and keep you there [02:07.04]Depending on how you keep your hair [02:08.20] [02:08.85]Now it's f** k 'em up and bumping nothing but NWA [02:12.13]Smoking a 7 or an 8th way before 7th grade [02:16.25]My classmates selling yay [02:18.39]Sebastian got me high that first time [02:20.78]In the back of an abandoned truck by Webster place [02:23.72]Couldn't feel my face [02:25.19]Spraying paint to see my name on trains try not to catch a case [02:29.08]Age 13 at s granny house watching him shoot up the ace [02:32.87]He took the needle out and waved it in my face [02:35.94]If I ain't tell that boy be easy dog [02:38.43]I coulda died of AIDs [02:39.85]I started realizing my talents about the time I was 15 [02:43.76]Tryna take over the world like pinky and the brain [02:47.69]Selling kush and hitting stains still in true religion jeans [02:51.61]16 I was shining just like a Stanley Kubrick scene [02:55.51]Sneaking into Lollapalooza I fell off of that bridge [02:59.31]15000 volts went through my elbow fell over 30 feet [03:03.31]The doctor said I should be dead still alive and still ain't scared [03:06.69] [03:07.22]In the hospital bed writing these rhymes in my head [03:10.92]In my dreams in my dreams [03:14.06]I saw it in my sleep yeah [03:17.20] [03:17.92]The city will be mine all mine all mine all mine all mine [03:22.54]All mine [03:23.15] [03:26.46]Memories [03:27.73] [03:29.75]On 47th street yeah [03:32.73] [03:33.54]One day it will be mine all mine all mine all mine [03:37.41]All mine all mine [03:39.05] [03:43.64]In a land of desperation we often turn to self medication as a coping mechanism [03:48.24]Some make a living as hood pharmacists [03:50.66]While some just inhale to remove them from h**l [03:53.21] [03:54.03]I watched from the window of a gated community until I grew old enough [03:57.61]There was no immunity from allure of the life