Reality of a nigga
Picture this living in a black residence
Where residents look at you with a timeline to be heaven sent
Is this prejudice?
If the stereotypes are held by people with the same skin as us
My whole city in jeopardy
No one escapes my town so what’s next for me?
In Henderson, there’s no such thing as emergencies
It doesn’t matter if a body drop and emerge in seas
That kids mom wanted to see the body just to emerge and cease
In my city it ain’t no surprise to see people die at 14
In one week the body count was 4 teens
While the police sat on they ass watching tv
No I’m not asking for anyone to sympathize
Just realize that equality is the real lies
In America I’m the one police despise
Because they see
That imma continue to rise
A nigga the same age as me, sixteen, shot down in the streets
Another son lost to a bullet
That was my cousin, but I ain’t gon say his name
So no one says I use that as my claim to fame
Police gave excuses as fillers
“Oh he a drug dealer so why catch his killer?”
This the stuff that make us hate them niggas
Words like police and killer become synonymous
Because police allow the killer to remain anonymous
Justice system full of broken promises
This why everybody in the hood tries to establish dominance
Tell me what else am I supposed to do in, America’s broken institution
Face prosecution?
Or live through constant persecution
With no resolution
This won’t what I was promised in the constitution
To be honest police are used as instruments of execution
Therefore I’ll place myself in seclusion from America
Trying to forget the ways I’m hated and viewed in America
But I shall never be muted nor ever disputed in America
Because if niggas the reason America’s polluted
Even after it was proven to have a dream that was convoluted when first instituted
Why were we recruited and torn from the home which we were rooted
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