This is not the city I recall
Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
My City got Negus Straight up In A Chokehold
Condos In Columbia Heights
Migos are Going Loco
Poisonous Water In the Schools
Worst Than The Congo
Sippin' On That Mambo
Banging Sticks on Bongos
My Cousins Sick Of Roaches
But they never been those Voters
Only Specializing On heaters bitches and toasters
Hanging rap posters
Flipping capone ashes on toasters and coasters
Scratch that
They don't use coasters
These Youngins feel so hopeless
Feel so voiceless
Chokehold on them limiting their choices
Politicians are Posers
Ain't doing what they suppose ta
Homeless families from Deanwood to Saratoga
You can see it with your own eyes not cause I told ya
Carpet Baggers and all these posers
Spring time Might've been colder
But summers here
Don't forget to look over your shoulder
This is not the city I recall
Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
The city I recall wasn't this at all
Gotta stay alert
You blink a eye and u might miss it all
Wasn't long ago when chocolate city wasn't mixed at all
It done changed so much u come here
Now this shit might piss u off
I just smoke a Jay and reminisce on shit
Stone soul picnic shit
Now niggaz stone cold
They on some different shit
Georgia Avenue day gone like where it went and shit
Soon as the band came on they started killing shit
All the recs got closed down
Fuck all the kids and shit
They give a fuck bout our children too busy building shit
Babies having babies and rappers is getting killed n shit
Cameras in the lights ain't no telling how much the city get
Or gotten in the last couple years
They on they Diddy shit
Day twenty one tickets double but we ain't singing shit
Politicians come in the hood but never bringing shit
But posters and campaign signs
Fuck we Gone do with this?
This is not the city I recall
Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze