Gentrification

Текст песни Deniro Farrar - Gentrification

It's called gentrification
It's what happens when the property
Value of a certain area is brought down
Huh, you listening?
They bring the property value down
They can buy the land at a lower price
Then they remove all the people out
Raise the property value and sell it at a profit

I'm just a boy from the hood, I feel like Furious Styles
Gentrification in our ghetto, this nation is ours
We built this shit
Yeah, yeah, we built this shit
I'm just a boy from the hood, I feel like Furious Styles
Gentrification in our ghetto, this nation is ours
We built this shit
Yeah, yeah, we built this shit

Losing our ghetto but we don't even know it
Only use the curb for the liquor we pourin'
Nigga got shot, now it's time to mourn
Is what it is, baby, life move on
Got a little struggle 'cause it made me strong
Whole Foods in the hood, now the rent got raised
But I'm still living off minimum wage
Nigga can't even afford to stay
Next thing you know they gon' own the block
Shit too hot for the mom and pop
Stores we was raised on, own the block
Now we gotta make way for a coffee shop
Can't take shit so they buy the land
Living next door to the fireman
And a couple with a dog but they don't even speak
Walking 'round acting like they better than me
'Cause they make six figures with a college degree
I grew up around here, these ain't apartments to me
Steady jacking up the price but you gotta be cheap
Motherfuckers ain't fooling me
I love my skin and I love my soul
We was all slaves, it's a lie they told
We started out kings with diamonds and gold
But they took our shit, baby, ain't that cold?

I'm just a boy from the hood, I feel like Furious Styles
Gentrification in our ghetto, this nation is ours
We built this shit
Yeah, yeah, we built this shit
I'm just a boy from the hood, I feel like Furious Styles
Gentrification in our ghetto, this nation is ours
We built this shit
Yeah, yeah, we built this shit

Where we gon' live if it ain't the hood?
Can't move up 'cause a nigga poor
Still in a recession and the jobs is low
Only other option is slang some blow
Three-strike rule, better think again
Kicking us out and they moving in
Pushing us all to the side of the city
Full of liquor stores and the water is shitty
School fucked up, they don't teach the kids
'Bout who they is or what we did
Aliens done built them pyramids
We the ones started the beauty supply
People bought it out, now prices is high
Everything around me gentrified
Better wake up, nigga, open your eyes
Go and get high, then you eat Popeyes
But it ain't Uptown, only on our side
Cross they fingers 'cause they hope we die
Must have forgot we was born to survive
Only in the hood when you need to vote
Or fucking our women in exchange for dope
Same old shit, it ain't changing though
Got me feeling like God my only hope

I'm just a boy from the hood, I feel like Furious Styles
Gentrification in our ghetto, this nation is ours
We built this shit
Yeah, yeah, we built this shit
I'm just a boy from the hood, I feel like Furious Styles
Gentrification in our ghetto, this nation is ours
We built this shit
Yeah, yeah, we built this shit

We are Africans and we happen to be in America
We're not American, we are people who formerly were
Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, the Rock was landed on us