Eighty-Six
Back like it’s 86
Let’s take it back like it’s 86
Let’s take it back likes it’s 86
Kangol and Adidas kicks
Tender age of 06
Staring through the ghetto fence
Reverend Run had Tricky Ronald Reagan was the president
Barely heard of crack and we had fathers in our residence
Ignorance and innocence
Same difference, in a sense
But he had that inner sense
Knew that there wasn’t something wasn’t adding up arithmetic
Error in addition meant
Numbers never multiplied our families were struggling
Uncles they was hustling
Heroine and corner dice
Grandma told me Jesus was the lord and he made sacrifice
Daddy trying to make the rent
Daddy keeping on the lights
Ain’t that the definition when they say for you he gave his life
Coins in the collection plate
Couple crumbs on our dinner plate
Praying to the heavens that he visit on election day
Mama told me how they murdered Martin after JFK.
They call us Generation X nigga
Which really meant they was plotting on how to X niggas
No more Elijah Mohammad’s or Malcolm X niggas
Toussaint L’Ouverture scared we’ll hex niggas
I know they feel it in the air now
You feel the soul when it’s risen after it’s held down
Take it back to ’88 Colors is everywhere now
Next day they youngsters is gangbanging in every town
Oh It’s just coincidence niggas
Scarface movies for crack dealers to wish bigger
Young blind souls can’t see it I paint a clear picture
Instagram that
Say we ain’t held back
Your honor motion to beg differ
Crack flooding the block now, no Nile River
25 life for a dime rock, they trial riggin’
Now they under Jim Crows laws, if this ain’t hells kitchen
Then what is nigga I need a clear description
Separate history from a written fiction
Separate His story from his fiction
I know it’s over they’re heads like synagogue ceilings is
Is this the end or just a new genesis
The closest one to you can be the most venomous
Whole generations missing and whose killing them
This is a war zone feel the adrenaline
And the saga is still to be continued
If life is a motion picture then this the preview
Shit is so cinematic I pull the reel (real) through
Forever living because cowards can never kill you, Preach!