Lyrics Gentrification - Oddisee

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