Birds Of Prey Lyrics

The glory of our darkest nights, and the comfort of times like these

They don't know we birds of prey

Ghetto birds with ghetto ways

Chamber explodes and that bullet ricochets

Hits vertebrae on any given day

Don't have names but victims

Don't worry nigga it's a stick up

But if you move you'll get lit up

My melanin hunted down

And my bloodline at the center

It goes bad to worse, but that's what happens when you're a real nigga

They paint the city red, don't give a fuck bout no pictures

But the end of days are near, somebody go get the bishop

Don't need to go to the army to know about war

Warring with ourselves, but those wars don't feed the poor

Those wars make you call on the Lord, they don't build, they only destroy

Birds of prey my flock was hurt today we lost our boy

Yeah, I lost some niggas, to the place we call the trenches

Glorifing violence, my city full of sickness, my city full of tension

We go against ourselves, the mathematics division

How do I make them listen? When you spitting real shit, they never give it attention

Unless they given a sentence, and by then it's too late

So I'm talking to the children, the ones on section 8

They tried to burn the village, we had to renovate, still we elevate

Love isn't priority when they moving off of hate

Years of maturity, I got grey hairs on my face

They tried to ruin me, I guess I got the last say

The world keep on screwing me, I try my best not to rage

I try to let go of my traumas, to be honest, I get tired of fighting

Cause now it feels like there's nothing behind these sacrifices

Moving like there's nothing in my way, what is more to say

As these 12 songs play, I hope you find it in your soul to recognize

The hunger that keep the spirit healing, I can hear my momma crying

When it rain, them hurdles I overcame, I know they keep her smiling

Numb to death like novacane , hoping they can keep me sane

As the songs I sang, I know I'm blessed, I make a hater go rewind it

I've been out my mental with these pencils on this paper jotting down my life story

From afar I know my neighbors watching me grow up from a boy to man

But this man been plotting world domination of the matrix

Winning my only option? I can see it from my optics

I've been moving really cautious

Balling always been a topic, I can't leave my people starving

Momma, if you listening, I'll make it pinky swear that promise

Taught me to get them commas, without saying I'm forever honest

Knew I wasn't flawless, I've been talking to the reaper lately

Almost ran out of gas, when I decided to drive Ms. Daisy

Daffodils or rose petals, your grave gon need some flower arrangements

Ima king in the making, while these chains, I'ma break them

They would rather see me hanging from trees in this modern slavery

I know I'm gonna reach the top, cause I started off in the basement, I know