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Habitat
Welcome to a habitat given
To us so called animals
With brick buildings and benches
Forget feelings and friendliness
That don’t raise distinguish gentlemen
In the hood girls are not feminine
Our inner instincts don’t involve mannerisms
Survival of the fittest
Is an understatement
In a place with gun shots and felons
Hustlers, crack, weed, and detectives
Is the only place you can find a
Black girl lost along side a
Man child in the Promised Land
The environment we were placed in
On the day of our birth
How can we surpass our daily living?
When were already considered apart of the dirt
Outsiders say our lives have no worth
To us is a joke when prisons collect 35 grand a man
Now that’s worth more then you know
Suburban lifestyle has no place
In our world
Ain’t no picket fence
Flower beds and multi floor duplexes
Homes with fathers, Foundation and no stress
Is something we cannot disperse
If that determines your worth
Suburbia will become extinct first
Put us anyplace on this earth
We already know our final destination is to die
Our lives don’t consist or prayer, making the world better
With hopes for a better life
We accept what we cannot change
Adaptation to what remains the same
Once you care about this
And worry about that before you know it
You’re out of the game
Around untamed
Vultures and snakes, in wake of
Kilos, pounds, ounces, is weight
Because of Tim’s, Throwbacks, Uptowns, and the latest MJ’s
Rent money was late, leaving 4 kids hungry with no food on their plate
Hungry, so the streets they embraced
Gave them food so they ate, as hustling took it’s place
Values were misplaced, but hunger was erased
Survival Designed our fate
In this hatitat given to us so called animals
Could you relate
