I speak for the soilders of the street. I wrote this when my homeboi was killed and this thread made me remember it. It's written in first person because I put myself inside his last moments on earth. I think I was 18 on this one. I don't mean to bring the thread down so I will remove it and give it it's own thread if it's too heavy.
I wipe the tears from my eyes that I cry for my peers
Til you had a gun to your head you don't know shit about fear
I heard the hammer click back, closed my eyes, took a breath
Kept my fist clinched, unhappy with the legacy left
But finally I'll be in peace
Free from the scum of the streets
Free from the belly of the beast
I felt my heart skip a beat
All I heard was the click,
life flashed before my eyes
Opened 'em up, staring at the clear night sky
Heat rising all around me yet I shiver with cold
Another nigga who won't live to see 20 years old
I can imagine the screams from my momma
Muffled cries from my baby girl
My minds in a swirl
It's fucked up in this cold world
I felt my life slipping and as the tears form in my eyes
I heard my killer reply
Real thugs represent and don't die
It's all good. A little off subject, but it inspired me to write this about two weeks ago.
Street soldiers
grinning because we know the streets hold us
got heat
but we only after cold lusts
In us we trust
so don't bust
in front of DTs
shut mouth is a must
But in the end Babylon will eat three
Our camouflage
was that Triple fat goose
With a .38 under coat
we hang loose
This is how WE celebrate our gang truce
my platoon
Yes, we banged deuce
Yelling we got, " Napalm "
Caught case and we yelling, " Yo, hey Moms! "
straight from lockup
Orange and sandals on
Learn from my uncles who sing the same song
Ex Marine Vietnam Recon
62 days in Juvi
stay strong
Build your chest
build arms
Come out, and on he who snitched
get your fame on
Everybody like, " Shane's mind gone "
I Beat that ass and prove the hood's psalm
Thou shalt not
Proved
Instead of revolvers now we got glocks
Whole crew
Benton Harbor OG's give us blocks
Our frontal assault is always stay locked
With one in chamber cocked
Green tracer ammo on top, So all can follow target
I'm the empty magazine make you swallow homemade hollow artist
But still not the hardest
Trying to do all
balance school and pool hall
stand tall
Pops is like don't fall
don't crime
in my mind, I'm so signed
But alls fair in love and war and I hear call
Allways trying to knuckle up
Or holla at a woman to get the cut
Realizing suckers suck
But I wasn't there when two of my ninjas got buck
cats was like, " BP got Rushed "
What
This is warfare
Is the core there
Or is the heart mark . . .