IDK (Ode to Detroit) Lyrics

Winter come third week of December

See no sun in the coldest place to enter

Dare to remember Detroit

Home of the D boys with no choice

And babies with no voice

Well Ima be the speaker box for the home of Dilla

The one that made Hip Hop iller

Birthplace of Techno

It gets no better than this

I make the earth shake

East side throw it up

West side to Brightmoore, Linwood to Southwest

I miss it every day I wake up and I'm out west

This summer was a hard one to watch from afar

It got humid as hot bullets shot from a car

On the e way

I'm dreaming of a free day

If you know yourself you can get a little leeway

Know what I mean

Address yourself as a king or a queen

And watch your life change as you attract the better things

I don't know if

You'll be here at all times

I just hope that you take control of your mind

If there is anywhere I can go for you, I'll move

If there is anything I can do for you, I'll do

Every time I open IG somebody's getting dropped

Next post at 350 terrace and bottles getting popped

Situations destitute

Brothers say they hate the cap, and they still reject the truth

You on some in between lukewarm shit

You sorta kinda

Need I remind ya

The worst part ain't behind us

America's a bad clip, they tryna rewind us

And they gone make it a reality if we don't lift our minds up

Find us in the cut

Of a rough part of town

Tryna find a piece of mind

POW, get on the ground

Shots rang around the corner

Next thing is the coroner

Fools shot up the block

Now the family is mourning a

Way too young baby

City's gone mad crazy

Funeral processions on the daily

Hard to find a slice of safety

Heavens underground, and grannies singing "lord take me from this wicked world"

And every weekend you singing get it get it girl

Man give me some balance

To scale yourself big these days don't need no talent

Just a couple medallions

No real will to challenge

The status quo

Call ya own women a ho, no

Detroit the place that I grew into

Who you view as an original

Every man knows

Women and children too

My city coming back like the Belle Isle Zoo

I don't know if

You'll be here at all times

I just hope that you take control of your mind

If there is anywhere I can go for you, I'll move

If there is anything I can do for you, I'll do

Young nigga with low cheese wrote these rhymes

In the knick of time

Before I got to my last dime

Smoke weed used to be my favorite past time

Now I'm past that

For me to do this, need a fast mind

I don't judge still be there if you wanna

Smoke marijuana

For me it took longer

Inhales that turn into hitting tails

It put up a splitting rail fence

Between me and the common sense

Subliminal

You looking at the pinnacle of this hardcore shit

It's hard for you to do cuz it's just not your shit