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The Air That We Breathe
- This city used to think that our economy is fine,
- housing projects, and high rates of poverty and crime,
- New Orleans ghetto drug trades, crack, pistols, rifles,
- bang bang, gang bangin', they're in an endless cycle,
- for the chains, same thang, just tryna maintain,
- gang violence, middle class silence, the grain,
- you just don't go against, and that's simple and plain,
- again and again, I see the pain, drugs rain,
- You don't go out at night 'less you wanna die late,
- junkie fiends run up on the streets, pupils dilate,
- I was living in North Carolina, doin' mathematics,
- in my house, nothin' much, just a couple crack addicts,
- my family had some struggles, but were never back at it,
- even though we were poor, we didn't have bad habits,
- but shit, it was another day just straight in the gutter,
- then my Mama picked up the phone from my brother,
- so we came to get him all the way from North Charlotte,
- and he asked if he could stay, his suitcase? Brought it,
- rotten teeth and he had the dragon when he took a breath,
- plus we lived with them crackers, always cookin' meth,
- so I knew somethin' was up, I would find it now or later,
- every day in the morning he'd rush over to the neighbors,
- and later, he'd return, eyes bloodshot, yellow teeth,
- inflamed guys, dilated pupils, out of it, no THC,
- he took everything you coulda done, plus marijuana,
- and he shot up while Mama worked at the Americana,
- once it strangles you, estranged, see, you can't retreat,
- the beast is unleashed and keeps you, the air that we breathe
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