
Date of issue: 31.12.2003
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Rawkus Entertainment
Song language: English
Around My Way |
Around my way… |
Around my way… |
All the corners filled with sorrow |
All the streets are filled with pain |
Around my way… |
People let me paint a picture |
You know I ain’t a Christian |
I ain’t a Muslim, ain’t a Jew |
I’m losing my religion |
I speak to god directly |
I know my god respect me |
Cause he let me breathe his air and he really blessed me |
I ain’t knocking you, but I don’t fuck with hospitals |
Spit the gospel, truly knowing jesus like apostles do |
Return like the prodigal son to honor Mohammed too |
Stay away from ham like Abraham, Lord I follow you |
Even when you took my man Chaka God and what I’m a do |
You gave the hood a modern day martyr in Brother Amadou |
I’m on the block, I’m tracing your footsteps, I keep the faith in you |
Your love, plus hard work and ambition |
We gonna make it through, my songs is psalms I’m spiritual when I’m lyrical |
This is for my soldier niggas looking in the mirror who |
Sitting home scratching off serials eating cereal |
The way we find a way to survive, shit is a miracle |
We got mice in the crib and roaches in the toasters, rice in the fridge |
Bread in the oven by the roaster |
We be takin' gypsy cabs and chasin' 50 bags |
They be laced with shitty swag and it really get me mad |
The way we saluting flags, wrapping them around our heads |
When niggas ain’t become American till 9/11 |
Feeling like you gotta sneak into heaven |
When the reverend looking like a pimp and the pimp look like the reverend |
These conditions make us strong |
And we create our own businesses so later on |
Our children have things in their name that they can say they own |
A mix tape freestyle become your favorite song |
No place like home when the cops ask you about your neighbors |
Beat on you, threaten to incarcerate you |
Till you spill your guts like you a Garcia Vega |
We roll blunts not the papers |
Cop the greatest take it coast to coast |
L.A. to Chicago like Smooth Operators |
Cop the Dro and cop the blacks |
Cop the four, cock it back |
Drop the flow, rock a hat on top a stocking cap |
Be a doctor or a lawyer or make your momma a promise that |
You’ll finish school, but when you got a dream you gotta follow that |
And make sure when you make it out the hood, you always holler back |
Think about what you got from that |
And always put your dollars back |
On top of that, this is a legacy and we a part of that |
The hood is where my heart is at |
Catch me around my way |
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