Where I'm From

Where I’m from its either kill or be killed

you either dealing drugs or tryna sign a deal

cant even sleep at night

you up praying you could sign for a Mill

don’t have no food to eat

really you would sign for a meal

keep that tool and heat

wont give us jobs so we gotta steal

making a fool of me

cuz they gone put me in a prison still

lock me up in steel

throw away the key

then paint pictures of a monster all on New Channel 3

a man without a choice is who I be

a criminal is what you see

whole world dogging me out

I’m tryna hold on like a flea

don’t know what rappers talking about

don’t think they learned they ABC’s

1 time for my brothers killing over 23’s

1 time 2 my momma single mother raised 3

from playing Uno at the crib

to overdosing on trees

then shooting treys at the gym

and still a genius don’t you see

I just said my Spanish 123’s

playing uno, overdosing, shooting treys

don’t you get it

Uno, Dos, Tres

think its how I spit it

words slurred

barely went to college

would’ve stayed longer

but my high school didn’t teach me the proper knowledge

teachers didn’t want to stick around

we had old books

even our school was getting hand me downs

barely notes took

everybody wanna be the class clown

The system looking like who laughing now

they passing laws

I wish I passed economy

cuz I don’t know what they mean

like stand your ground means I’m dead on the scene

inhaling green

just to deal with the blues

from this blue and green world

everybody changing up

is that boy or is that a girl

things switching up

and watch your back cuz they’ll hurt ya

OG’s calling shots that’s getting little kids murdered

little kids shooting shots and getting lock away for murder

Mentally encaged physically cant go no further

than where I’m from!

 

 

This poem is about: 
My community
My country
Our world

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