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Description
Like a chronicle of houses with peeling paint, where the elevator is stuck forever, and children's games coexist with gunshots. Here, rain sounds like a premonition of trouble, and the sun sounds like a mockery, because answers still come only from pain and weapons. This is a story about courtyards where every day is like survival, where joy is a short party in the courtyard, and tragedy is just another news story. Harsh, gloomy, but honest: rhythm turns chaos into music, and the memory of “trap apartments” becomes the eternal soundtrack of the neighborhood.
Producer: Frankie Pee
Producer: Mario Luciano
Sound Recording: John Kadadu
Sound Recording, Composer, Lyricist: Mario Dragoi
Mixing Engineer: Leslie Brettwaite
Mastering: Chris Athens
A&R: Tim Glover
Administrator and Coordinator: Alissa Batista
Administrator and Administrator: Marissa Weekliff
Composer and Lyricist: Destin Ruth
Composer and Lyricist: Terrence LeVar Thornton
Composer and Lyricist: Gene Thornton
Composer and Lyricist: Frank Parra
Lyrics and translation
Original
The rain couldn't understand it. The
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pain made them understand. [ __ ] The sun
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tried to understand. The gun made me
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understand. The rain tried whispering
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the warning. The land shaking plus the
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rhythm is enormous. All the forces like
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a portal to a vortex connected to the
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stars just projecting where we part at.
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Pull up where you park at. Aim a little
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dark. Look where your bark at. It'd be a
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shame if you stayed in them apartments.
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12 barely even came to them. Catch a
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play and then parlay in them apartments.
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I swear it's like a party every day in
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them. You was raised in them apartments.
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Dang. Jump a shot or join a gang in
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them. My mama say we got to get away
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from them. It's graves in apartments and
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it ain't got to end this way cuz we
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ain't [ __ ] I don't give a [ __ ] about no
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industry beef. Ain't nobody give a [ __ ]
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but T was dead in the street. I don't do
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the [ __ ] you see on the screens. I've
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been tapped in with true things. I be
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your rap cap and I screw things. I don't
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give a [ __ ] about them [ __ ] at the
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top. The biggest [ __ ] on the block
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still get shot. You thinking pop? I'm
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thinking
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Can't talk about that [ __ ] from you.
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You seen Fox?
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I see a tiny line of silver. A way to
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make a play. Although they say it's
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unfamiliar, it's off the kilter. I say
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the words without a filter. You've got
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to have nerve. It'll make you strong if
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it don't kill you. I'll put a bullet in
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Bob the [ __ ] building before they try
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and kick us out the building. What about
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the children? When I check a news
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channel, I get a similar feeling. But
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still we going to make it to heaven.
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High water or hell but don't take the
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highways to 85 behind the damn wheel.
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It's like a driveway. Even I could give
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Christ and I do it twice. I kill Chris
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heard thunder hit with lightning and
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still I didn't feel [ __ ] Talk about
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resilience off stone ma where I hone to
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my brilliance. It was after then I took
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my talents right up to Virginia. Heard
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they said that she lover. [ __ ] was
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gutter. [ __ ] was gritty. I could tell
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you what it was but let tell you what
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I'm missing. Pat was missing in my hood.
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I identified then I brought white to my
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hood. [ __ ] I gentrified. We had military
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arms. We were simplified. Point blank.
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Let me simplify. I've been like post
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corner boy. Green box to the crack
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[ __ ] Trying to hustle up and act
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bigger. Six deuce buyer. [ __ ] really
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live the wire from lookouts. Then we
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meteor to suppliers. Cave in one way in
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one way out. Robbo cops on mountain
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bikes ain't pulling mace out. Just
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trying to get back home from getting
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chased out. A week ago, a boy like me
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don't got a face now. The apartments,
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the projects, the ghettos, all the same
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[ __ ] Crazy how we hopcotch and double
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Dutch danger. We ADHD and all the pills
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that you gave us. How we supposed to
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process this anger?
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The rain couldn't understand it. The
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pain made them understand. [ __ ] The sun
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tried to understand. And the gun made me
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understand the range dry whisper and the
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warning. The land shaking plus the
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rhythm is enormous. All the forces like
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a portal to a vortex connected to the
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stars just projecting where we part at
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pulling where you park at. Aim a little
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dark. Where your bark at?
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My ghetto's not your culture. [ __ ]
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really die here. So hard to say goodbye
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is the only love by here. Kilos turning
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boys to men. Got to pick a side here.
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Some would Jesus shuttle's worth. Some
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of us were not serious. As time goes by,
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it's an eye for an eye. Here, my [ __ ]
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my beat. The fittest going to survive
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here with New Jersey Drive here. Shop
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right here. This jack in the box
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shouldn't come. There's no surprise
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here. You [ __ ] drink your own street
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credits denied here. Section 8 living.
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We treat it like a time share. Mother,
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auntie, cousin couldn't tell you who
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reside there, but never seen a father
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that was government devised here.
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Conquer and divide here. Crash and
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collide here. When kings can't raise a
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young prince, the doves cry here. Candy
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lady right there. Zombie land right
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there. Compartments be the perfect
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backdrop for any nightmare.