Beginning Of A New Era ft. Factor Chandelier Lyrics

4:44am, feds flock to the front yard again

Guns to the heads of my friends,

That was me back then, in 010

Only been waiting for something to take me away from this cycle of violence

Look in my brain, there is infinite dread and

I'm living inside of a riot

4:44am, shaking in my bed, drenched in sweat

Am I gonna get out of the life I led

Am I gonna have my body filled with lead

I have been running away from my past for too long, now I'm ready to face it

Freedom is something so beautiful, but it's difficult to navigate within

New Haven, Connecticut, they got him in the street

Ten shots by the cowardly police

They don't gotta do time, just paid leave

Worst case, they're gonna retire early

OG told me this the life we chose, No sleep

Sometimes we get heaters to the dome, don't weep

You on fleek? Shut your lip

Petty little puppets, but they claiming to be free

What I gotta do to make a mufucka listen

What I gotta do to make a mufucka listen

What I gotta do to make a mufucka listen

Say, bitch, call him a bitch

What I gotta do to make a motherfucker listen

What I gotta do to make a motherfucker listen

What I gotta do to make a motherfucker listen

Say, bitch

This is the beginning of a new era, I can feel it

I want to believe again, I mean it

This is the beginning of a new era, I can feel it

I want to believe again, I mean it

4.44 AM, just found out about another dead friend

Is it suicide or heroin

Wondering if I am next

Next

4.44 AM, shaking in my bed

Drenched in sweat

Am I gonna get out of the life I led

Am I gonna have my body filled with lead

My brain is stuck between trying to kill me

or take me away from the violence

Cacophony is still surrounding me

So I'm sitting here praying for silence

They don't like my spit, never fit their image

They forgot that we were here since the beginning

Black and white world with some black and white critics

I was never either, so I never quite slid in

The game don't love you, can't catch feelings

All I ever wanted was to scratch glass ceilings

They don't like the fact that I look like a rap

Never looked like a trapped, that put money in the bank

Fucked over so many times, point blank

Hard to even put it in a rhyme, that's frank

False motherfuckers gotta have a lot of balls

To forgive another killer trying to catch you in his jaws

Pathetic, the ways that they try to rip us all apart

It's a class war out there, Don't get lost

Still believing in the possibilities we got

But survival can cost

In my teens I read some Zinn, then Bookchin

High school scholarship then

College scholarship then

Education is privilege, Hip Hop is

Take it back from big biz

Old money men never really gave a shit

They just wanna sell poverty to the rich

They just wanna sell pain for profit

Fuck them hard and quick, on this dick

They can sit, I will split

Rulers necks, Let them wear

Brick anklets, sleep with fish

Temples get torn to the ground

Bambaataa gone now, seems that they forgot about

Boricua kids with big mouths

Since Kool Herc been down

Acting like we never been around

This my blood too, melt down plastic crowns

Acting like we've never been around

This my blood too, melt down plastic crowns, now

This is the beginning of a new era

I can feel it

I wanna believe again, I mean it

This is the beginning of a new era

I can feel it

I wanna live again, I mean it

When I was a kid outside Oaktown

Watched the hills all burnin' down

89 earthquake, battle of the Bay Bridge

Berkeley watched my family drown

Ashby flea market, drum circles

Malcolm X is what I found

Ice T B.D.P.E, kill at will tape

Digital underground

Respect art you clowns

This ain't actin', fashion, rainbow mouths

This ain't shockin', only honest

Fake Four hip-hop for right now

Temples get torn to the ground

Bambaataa gone now, seems that they forgot about

Boricuop kids with big mouths

Since Kool Herc been down

Actin' like we never been around

This my blood too, melt down plastic crown

How? Anyone in their right mind

Ever gonna think that they're rapping better than me

Own this fucking sound, now

This is the beginning of a new era

This is the beginning of a new era

This is the beginning of a new era

This is the beginning of a new era

Never made out with death

Never had a year when you lost seven friends

Never had to serve a mandatory minimum

Your opinion ain't shit then

Never got fucked by death

Never had a cop put a gun to your head

Never had to serve a mandatory minimum

Your opinion ain't shit then

Never made out with death

Never had a year when you lost seven friends

Never had to serve a mandatory minimum

Your opinion ain't shit then

Never got fucked by death

Never had a cop put a gun to your head

Never had to serve a mandatory minimum

Your opinion ain't shit then

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