Polo G - A King's Nightmare(2019)

[00:21.38] Spittin' verses, I'm desperate, I need a mansion and a coupe
[00:23.79] You done signed over your life and now you slavin' in the booth
[00:26.45] Now we hang ourself with chains, they used to make us rock a noose
[00:29.04] Shorties hoppin' off the porch 'cause it ain't shit else to do
[00:31.84] Nothin' but trouble in the hood, normal sentence for the youth
[00:34.75] You a king, you not a gangster, I'm just tellin' you the truth
[00:37.44] Please just take my word, 'cause they done scrambled all the proof
[00:40.39] His big bro ain't tryna warn him, he just taught him how to shoot
[00:43.04] Out there warrin' with each other, will there ever be a truce?
[00:45.91] Why the fuck we into it? I'm going through oppression too
[00:48.67] Feel death in the air, it's like a nightmare, this shit is scary
[00:52.22] Riding for gang, now your casket is gettin' carried
[00:54.62] Mama break down, you gettin' put in that cemetery
[00:57.04] Shit fucked up my mental, seen too many obituaries
[01:00.06] These bodies keep dropping, summer cold like it's January
[01:03.17] When you die, they gon' praise you, now they see that you legendary
[01:05.79] Just another cold case, look what they did to Kenneka
[01:08.38] Hear them screams after that chopper sing like Aretha
[01:10.72] Homicide puddles, I got blood stains on my sneakers
[01:13.82] Out here playing life or death, tryna run from the reaper
[01:16.78] Shit been fucked up at the crib, lashin' out on the teacher
[01:19.48] Grandma taking me to church, I fell asleep on that preacher
[01:22.20] Chains, clothes, hit the block, hard-headed and eager
[01:25.10] We just tryna stay afloat but this shit gettin' deeper
[01:28.06] I'm just tryna talk to you and tell my life through these speakers
[01:30.73] Yeah, I conquered them struggles, I just had to stay focused
[01:33.36] Told myself that I'm the greatest, I won't wait 'til they notice
[01:36.22] Wouldn't nobody help me up when I was down at my lowest
[01:38.75] I'm the only one believe when everybody was hopeless
[01:41.55] I done got so used to funerals, can't show no emotion
[01:44.48] Man, this lifestyle crazy, swear this shit get atrocious
[01:47.77] Like one minute on that block, you just laughing and joking
[01:49.16] Now your mans shot up on that ground, gasping and choking
[01:53.07] In them streets deep, we was mobbin', went from innocent to goblins
[01:56.06] Had to take, we started robbin',
[01:57.52] Catchin' white folks while they joggin
[01:58.61] Battle scars, we hate the rain, bullet wounds steady throbbin'
[02:01.25] Fiends lookin' like zombies, half-dead, they just noddin'
[02:04.24] That peer pressure comin' at you and it's too hard to dodge it
[02:07.18] Got dreams to make the league, late night plans, might sabotage it
[02:09.55] My homie made the news, he 'posed to be on ESPN
[02:12.39] Came and left the same day, RIP to the twins
[02:15.32] Doctor said he could make it but his chances was thin
[02:17.78] My homie just came home, did three in the pen'
[02:20.53] Back in them streets few weeks later, now he locked up again
[02:23.38] I wonder one day will we wake up? Is the cycle gon' end?
[02:28.75] I wonder one day will we wake up? Is the cycle gon' end?
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