World of Poverty LyricsLoer Velocity - “World of Poverty”
[Emcee(s): Loer Velocity]
[Producer(s): Chris Jarvis]
[Additional Vocals: Sav Killz and [?]]
[Hook: Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth"] (x2)
Children growing, women producing
...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
...stealing
[Interlude 1: Loer Velocity]
This is crazy
[Verse 1: Loer Velocity]
Welcome to the world of middle-class poverty
Where underpaid folk walk around solemnly
Land of the slow-grieving, silent minority
Where stable income’s for the fortunate few
Don’t lose your job—insurance goes with it
Along with some bullshit too, so I admit it
Seems I’m no citizen functioning
Yet the common law works against my every flaw
Not to mention the circumstance for war
Recessing the state of the country at its core
The blue-collared whore of a working-class America
Hard times hit worse than Hurricane Erica
For me, sort of in hysteria, bugging
‘Cause final notices at my coattails, tugging
Stressing, ain’t no future in fronting
I got to do something, man. I got to do something
[Hook: Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" and (Loer Velocity)]
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
(Check-to-check, penny-pinching, looking for a come-up)...stealing
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
(Good times, bad times. Thank God we got Him) ...stealing
[Verse 2: Loer Velocity]
It’s
The stress factor, and it’s not going away
So, with no job, I manage to smoke all day
And I’m falling off almost as bad as it seems
‘Cause the workforce doesn’t want us with self-esteem
But I held it together, dust myself off
Change up the medium in my process of thought
But the more things change, the more they stay the same
And nowhere in that process is there really gain (Yo, for real)
I still see dudes on the block like it’s a sport
But, instead of a rock, hustling a Newport
Three packs for ten—loosies if you’re lucky
Bootlegs for five, this city’s getting ugly and
I got to get ugly with it and hold my own
That’s easier said than done, but, yet, I’m grown, doing
Grown man things. Ain’t no future in fronting
I got to do something, man. I got to do something
[Hook: Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" and (Loer Velocity)]
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
(Check-to-check, penny-pinching, looking for a come-up)...stealing
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
(Good times, bad times. Thank God we got Him) ...stealing
[Verse 3: Loer Velocity]
I’m at
A point with myself where I’m looking to get right
What’s heavy on my mind is how my pockets are light
And it’s past due time I confront my losses
Gramps said, “A man’s got to use his resources
To capitalize on the shortcomings of life”
Meanwhile, the left side of me’s talking trife
Mad convos in spite of what’s right or wrong
On my behalf, I just want this emptiness gone
‘Cause, when it comes down to it, I have all say
It’s my story. I’ll write the ending to the day
But I feel a lot better about the calm in my cypher
Say, if instead, paid for being a writer
But what’s real: outside my door, them streets waiting
And me sitting here with my financials aching
That’s not what’s up. I got to eat to live
And I got to do something in order for something to give
[Hook (Overlapped with Interlude 1): Sample from 20th Century Steel Band - "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" and (Loer Velocity)]
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
...stealing
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
...stealing
Children growing, women producing
...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
...stealing
Children growing, women producing
(Welcome to the world of poverty) ...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
...stealing
Everyone's got to make a living
...stealing
(Welcome to the world of poverty)
Everyone's got to make a living
[Interlude 1 (Overlapped with Hook): Sav Killz and Loer Velocity]
Sav Killz: Ayyo, yo, what up, Loe?
Loer Velocity: Yeah, what up?
Sav Killz: Ayyo, it’s Sav, son
Loer Velocity: Oh, yo, peace. What up, bro?
Sav Killz: Nah’mean? Getting natural and shit, nah’mean? Yo, we got, got to get this cream, son
Loer Velocity: True. What’s, what’s going on, though?
Sav Killz: What’s that in the background?
Loer Velocity: Some cooled-out shit, you know’m saying? Ain’t nothing
Sav Killz: Oh, you’re just cooling? That’s what up, dun, you nah’mean? But, yo, son
Loer Velocity: What’s good?
Sav Killz: Meet me downstairs, son. Word up, man. We got to get this, we got to get this paper, man. Get our hustle on and shit. You know how that shit go
Loer Velocity: True, I hear that. I’m saying
Sav Killz: Yo, I got this little scheme, son
Loer Velocity: Oh word?
Sav Killz: Word up. Nah’mean? So, yo, get at me. Meet me downstairs, dun. Word
Loer Velocity: Aight. [?]. Aight
[Outro: [?]]
[?]. Some people say you’ve got it bad, but if you shuffled through the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens, [?]. If life was... if I could get a... get a homeless place where... like, out of the state. A lot of people say [?] different places out of state that you can go to. OK, good, ‘cause it’s good to be out of state ‘cause you get tired of being around New York City all the time. I was born and raised in New York City. It doesn’t really bother me
