Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Gentrification, artist - Oddisee. Album song Foot In the Door, in the genre Иностранный рэп и хип-хопDate of issue: 02.10.2006
Record label: Halftooth
Song language: English
Gentrification |
| Interlude |
| Uh yea |
| What’s up Cam? |
| Good looking out on this beat though |
| Cam be getting mad yall he be like |
| «Man what you want my beats for you make your own beats» |
| This shit hot nigga! |
| Yea, I was gon rap about rapping on this joint or something |
| Some generic shit about love or something like that |
| But you know me |
| Yea just ride with us then |
| Did I mention I was from Largo? |
| Where niggas ride dirty with more green in they whips than Wells Fargo |
| Yall know this whole side of the district When niggas move quick when they |
| couch get evicted |
| Ouch they right with it they house tax raised up |
| Gentrification on the rise they like «pay up» |
| It’s no surprise when White folks is moving in |
| Cause they got the money and time to pursue the trends |
| Same trends be end of us pure |
| Mom and pops store replaced by Couture Starbucks here and a Starbucks there |
| How much coffee you need my god it’s unfair |
| They move away from the burbs to escape the monotony |
| Bring along wit em they pilates and pottery |
| Classes and all that unfair shit |
| My city don’t look the same |
| What a shame it’s tragic |
| Oddisee |
| «Yea, that shit is crazy though |
| Rockville niggas moving out the city out to Peezy County and shit |
| It’s all good |
| Magic Johnson building us a new movie theater and shit |
| We got Bo Jangles you know what I’m saying |
| All niggas welcome all niggas will come all niggas accepted |
| Yea, Mo county now niggas out there too.» |
| I heard niggas from the city is moving out to Mo county now |
| Section 8 relocating them to German Town |
| Aspen Hill too, Rockville, Wheaton |
| Tom and Jane move in and Leeroy leaving Its something to see when the |
| authenticity of a city is |
| Replaced by college kids and hassadidiness |
| Urban decay making way for Ikeas |
| Luxury loss replacing with eye seers |
| And history lost |
| My mother used to eat at Ben’s Chili Bowl when she was young and had love and |
| on a date |
| And now I’m grown up and I grab a plate at the same place she used to |
| congregate And to me that’s safe |
| I can’t fake shit |
| I don’t eat there cause of inflation |
| The whites came in |
| I used to get a chilli dog with fries for 5 but now I pay 10 |
| They gotta pay rent |
| So now they raise the price |
| The you street takeover it’s the greatest heist |
| A major makeover and my people ain’t included |
| We getting booted out the city like it’s nothing to it |
| Outro |
| Uh, shits wild man |
| Heard the same shit going up in uh up in Harlem |
| Going on over in uh Chicago too man |
| Shits crazy |
| And you know when Hurricane Katrina came through in New Orleans they was glad |
| Washing all the niggas out |
| Then they gon help them help get they shit back together? |
| Hell naw man that shit boutta be ritzy down there man (?) Haha |
| Same shit going on in Atlanta too |
| Up in Philly all the major cities yall |
| Yea just rock wit me |