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THUGZ MANSION
- //beat drops at 0:20, start verse 1
- This song is dedicated to all the victims of the tone of your skin, of racial profiling
- from police brutality, for the stereotypes, you're a thug....they call you a gangsta
- but it's from the circumstances of the ghetto....
- VERSE 1:
- I'm sick of them ignoring, so I'll address and I'mma sing,
- this is for the racial violence victims like Rodney King,
- sometimes it's hard to think about, I say "fuck the world",
- this is for Gavin Cato, Brittany Williams, and James Byrd,
- it's for Megan Williams and Cheryl Green, moving dreams,
- doing things to improve human beings like Dr. Luther King,
- or Huey P., some have some thoughts of takin' human lives,
- some contemplate suicide, or lucid dreams of gruesome scenes,
- guns? Do it without one, to improve these streets,
- make peace with our brothers, but still remember Malcolm,
- for Michael Donald, this shit's for Brandon McClelland,
- Jamiel Shaw, high school, I would have so much to tell him,
- we're broke so we're faking knots, taken down by racist cops,
- and Asian store owners, and they wonder we we're taking shots,
- until the day we drop, we won't give up, keep your head up,
- we're fed up and we know we're desperate, won't say we're not
- HOOK:
- Every corner, every city,
- there's a place where life's a little easy,
- little Hennessy, laid back and cool,
- every hour, 'cuz it's all good,
- leave all the stress from the world outside,
- every wrong done will be alright,
- nothin' but peace, love, and street passion,
- every ghetto needs a thug mansion
- VERSE 2:
- Hear the church bells ring for the gangstas in Harlem,
- comin' straight from the bottom, peace to Latasha Harlins,
- but we'll never be poor long as we got heart and keep soul,
- some cities they'll arrest and molest you for wearin' street clothes,
- stereotypes of poor black males wearing all their pants sagged,
- acting like they're gonna bust a cap or steal some handbags,
- and it's stupid, all the gang wars, our brothers and our girls,
- Louis Armstrong said he saw all the colors of the world,
- it's for Trayvon Martin, we do what we need to maintain,
- and it's foolish how we scuffle and then how we gang bang,
- you don't go against the grain, you don't challenge the system,
- 'cuz they'll throw your ass in prison, that shit's simple and plain,
- politicians design 'em, get profiled by police with badges,
- get away, because they have departments right behind 'em,
- I try to shine bright, and try to light the brightest, best way,
- but how the fuck we pray for tomorrow? We can't see today
- HOOK:
- Every corner, every city,
- there's a place where life's a little easy,
- little Hennessy, laid back and cool,
- every hour, 'cuz it's all good,
- leave all the stress from the world outside,
- every wrong done will be alright,
- nothin' but peace, love, and street passion,
- every ghetto needs a thug mansion
- VERSE 3:
- Let's take a different turn, sometimes these bridges burn,
- you grow up and see violence around you, you live and learn,
- it's for Michael Ainsworth, a man murdered at the bus stop,
- for the niggas in the drive bys who grow up and just got,
- caught in the crossfire, shit's for throwin' all the buckshots,
- for victims of their skin color killed by these corrupt cops,
- but how the fuck would you feel if all you saw was poverty?
- There's so much violence 'round kids, that shit bothers me,
- that shit is nothing when you're raised by single mothers,
- and you pay respect God, feel you've got to give him somethin',
- acting like they fucking with you when they stuck it to you,
- when you feel you got to something to prove, nothing to lose,
- you just humming them blues, and we're reciting them raps,
- you just running with crews, and we're all fighting them back,
- and all the white and the black, we need to come together,
- to live and learn we all make mistakes to make this better and
- HOOK:
- Every corner, every city,
- there's a place where life's a little easy,
- little Hennessy, laid back and cool,
- every hour, 'cuz it's all good,
- leave all the stress from the world outside,
- every wrong done will be alright,
- nothin' but peace, love, and street passion,
- every ghetto needs a thug mansion
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