
Date of issue: 08.01.2007
Song language: English
Family First |
73rd and San Pedro |
Uncle Sunny and Odell |
Take your pick on what killed ya |
Bullets, Cancer, or Jail |
Huh, what a life |
Listen |
Propaganda |
I came out a town in gangs |
And a gang of grace |
Cuz fo' sho' sin abounds and round these parts |
Crowns is made of tin foil |
And them boys play Halo with real guns |
Lay low |
Right there I blang slang |
That twice born rhetoric |
Our Papi pound the ground |
And out came all humanity |
Write heavy handed |
Sharpie ink laced with mercury |
Magnetic raps to draw out all impurities |
Round the time the good Lord took mama winnin |
The light bulb turned on |
This world ain’t my home |
I huddled up to Triage |
With curb servers and griots |
That’s such an L.A. reference |
All good if you don’t get it |
But for those who would listen |
I break you out your radio prison |
Redefine manhood, blackness, and time |
Shape and define culture |
Let me fashion you some shades |
Introduce you to a trend that transcends the will of men |
Lord |
Lee Green |
I ain’t a product |
I ain’t apologizing |
You ain’t a number |
Pay them no minding |
Ring the alarm |
We came to redefine cutter |
Carve truth in his heart |
And love on her arms |
Propoganda |
Hey, I’m literate in graffiti |
I am not at all kidding |
From the heart of the city |
That Stevie lived just enough for |
Jackson, Mississippi: My people toiled the soil |
And share croppers' pop coppers got they kin lynched in |
That was the lynch pin of the mass migration into Texas |
Rest of us would push west still |
Manifest destiny |
A black American family |
Wanted better for they kids |
And landed in Southern Cali |
Who knew it was a war zone, my uncles got recruited in |
Shawn and Kiona seen death out in Compton |
But they ain’t fall victim |
Cousin Brandon either |
We should have framed the tax return and moved us to Covina |
There I met the mic and spray can instead of blue rags |
And fell in love with flairs and entiendo Spanglish |
Stand on my own and rep the Son of Man |
And brand my own chest so I would never blend in |
Lord |
Name | Year |
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Could I Have This Kiss Forever ft. Whitney Houston | 1998 |
That's What Friends Are For ft. Elton John, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder | 2017 |
Think It Over ft. Whitney Houston | 2014 |
Walk on By | 2016 |
The Green Grass Starts to Grow | 1985 |
After You ft. Whitney Houston | 2015 |
I Believe In You And Me ft. Whitney Houston | 2014 |
What the World Needs Now (Is Love) | 2005 |
Always Something There To Remind Me | 2006 |
I Say A Little Prayer For You | 1985 |
That's What Friend Are For | 2015 |
Something In Common ft. Bobby Brown | 1992 |
Heartbreaker | 2017 |
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me | 1985 |
This Empty Place | 2016 |
An Umbrella Song | 1978 |
You're Gonna Need Me | 2005 |
Your Song | 2016 |
Look into Your Heart | 2005 |
Do You Hear What I Hear | 1987 |
Artist lyrics: Whitney Houston
Artist lyrics: Cissy Houston
Artist lyrics: Dionne Warwick