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Around My Way is about the music that glamorizes drug dealing, and the drug dealers who use that music as their soundtrack as they sell poison to the community.
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AROUND MY WAY
1st VERSE:
Same song they play
Them "D" boys I mean.
"I can't eat no other way,
cuz I was given this world,
I didn't make it"
hey but, what if I tell you,
that, it just ain't true and
you were given this
so you can RE-make it.
If you were given the struggle,
then you can take it.
I believe in you and
There's nothing that you can't do.
In my hood you are the son.
Oh. Come on and shine like one.
CHORUS:
Around my way,
there's alot of pain and tears
but where else can you find
so much soul?
All I ask of you
is a chance to see things through
there's a place for me and for you,
to help on my block.
2nd VERSE
Hear me out,
I'm putting the trappers on blast.
You don't get a pass
cause you short for cash.
The Lord is gonna ask,
how you made your dough
whether strugglin or hustlin or playing C-lo.
You wear a crown in the hood these days.
Dope dealers, ya'll are rappers Muse these days
Soul Killers, cuz all ya'll rappers is fools these days.
Life stealers cuz rap is poisonous food, queasy.
Wanna see your affect,
you can see it easily,
Come around my way the dead are walking,
kind of creepy.
Frontin like a movement, selfish ass-tivist
dope dealer plus rapper
creating passivists.
CHORUS:
Around my way,
there's alot of pain and tears
but where else can you find
so much soul?
All I ask of you
is a chance to see things through
there's a place for me and for you,
to help on my block.
3rd VERSE
But see, its all about you right
you don't care about them babies
crying in the night.
Cuz they momma's strung out
while the daddys gone out
looking for what you sell.
Living good, but earning hell.
You got your math down
cut right in the kitchen
what a waste of genius coulda been a mathematician
You an evil genius worse than devil politicians
they kill from far away,
your lyrics kill is that your mission.
You kill from far away,
your music kills. Is that your mission?CHORUS:
CHORUS:
Around my way,
there's alot of pain and tears
but where else can you find
so much soul?
All I ask of you
is a chance to see things through
there's a place for me and for you,
to help on my block.
credits
from
The Collective Mixtape EP,
released October 19, 2013
From the original song "My Block" by Scarface, 2002
Rap Lyrics by: QUADIR LATEEF
Remixed music by: ANTHONY TAYLOR
All lyrics written and arranged by: ZAIMAH HABEEB
Vocals by: Zaimah Habeeb
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