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The Left
Performer
Erik Stephens
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Erik Stephens
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Apollo Brown
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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I know you've been hurt (Man, you don't know nothin', man)
By someone else (Yeah, whatever)
(You don't know nothin' 'bout me, man)
I can tell by the way (Yeah, go ahead with that, man)
You carry yourself (I gotta do what I gotta do)
I, I (Yo)
[Verse 2]
I got my middle finger up, and it's nice and high
It's just me against the world, and I'm down to ride
On anybody who oppose and they claim they want it
I got the Ruger on my side if you think I'm frontin'
I'll take it back a lil' bit so you can understand
How the land of the free make this type of man
I got a coked out mom, alcoholic father
Who walked out when I was ten, like, "Fuck it, why bother?"
So now my attitude is like, "Fuck it, why bother?"
I stay blowed off the kush to even think of karma
"Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes" was the best slogan
That I lived by, next to, "I got you open"
I'd have gave up hope, so I start acceptin'
That my life ain't shit without a Smith & Wesson
'Cause when the sales get slow and them pockets empty
I'ma squeeze on a semi till the clip's empty
Just like Mr. Simpson, your boy's guilty
I'm the environmental product of this great country
'Cause of the violence I stay vibrant
I'm one of the last dudes you wanna see on the live tip
[Verse 3]
Either the grave or the cell's what I'm headed for
'Cause based off of the statistics, I'm prepared for it
Either the grave or the cell's what I'm headed for
'Cause based off of the statistics, I'm prepared for it
[Verse 4]
She was livin' in the city with the most geographical space
Most abandoned buildings, murder cases, and annual rapes
Like goin' on to climate cold, highest unemployment
Try to swim instead of sink, but economy wasn't buoyant
Poignant observations of the chief of police
Appointed by the mayor who betrayed you
Like cons in Donald Goines' lit
Backdoor deals, 'cause the chief is on the boards
Of the new prison and it greased his palms slicker than some ointment
Evert life has got about as much a chance
As surviving this circumstance as guessing Joker's coin flip
Made an appointment and she met up with the welfare
Office tried to get a bit of medicated healthcare
But they had her jumping through the hula hoops
I guess some help as hard as tryna pull a tooth
Her heart, it wasn't bulletproof
For the youth, but the stress was speeding up her aging, so
Kinda new wrinkles 'round the grey hair ratio
In the winter with over four feet of the whole waves of snow
House on foreclosure, now she out with no place to go
So free your mind up, this is a reminder
The United Staes incarcerates more than they do in China
We only five percent of all the world's pop, but
It's twenty-five percent of all the world's locked up
So I wonder how to break the cycle, will it ever stop?
If we see people as numbers and we make 'em a check box
Written by: Erik Stephens