i'm from a city with many losses
nothing is pretty, I stay cautious
the president up in the main office
look at what getting him paid cost us
look at what getting him paid cost us
look at him getting his day off from
getting his pay off
it's really making me nauseous
no wonder my people are praying often
i'm from a city with many losses
tanks or tank tops,
take your pick
chains or chainsaws
take your pick
you gotta be with the government to pay your rent
baby it's tanks or tank tops
take your pick
i wake and bake off to
states of bliss
cause no state is in the state
my state is in
i pray to God to save the men say Amen
[Ameeen]
if you wanna be rich brotha join the [tanks]
get into the government or join the banks
exploit the rankings below you
don't overthink it mm
if not
then your working in a sweatshop
with a [tanktop]
in the middle of a hot summer day
thinking up 500 ways
tryina get paid probably robbing a bank
like

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i'm on my own

I REALLY GOT NO OPTION

i'm from a city with many losses
nothing is pretty, I stay cautious
my president is living in a fortress
with a porche and military trained forces
and of course he probly got golf courses
tennis courts and a courtyard full of horses
and a front lawn full of sports cars too
rev it up like *vroom*
to tell the truth man,
i'm a pharaoh in a tomb and
a mummy, the money doesn't move man
and to tell the truth man
they really separated two lands
Egypt & Sudan,
and to tell the truth
it was definitely cause my niggaz too tan
my skin full of melanin, bedouin
they told me i would never win, (never win)
but remember when
we were the empire they settled in?

you remember that don't ya?
they was loving us and loving black culture
and nobody's stronger than black soldiers
so now i'm on a mission to put us up on their posters
it's really nothing i'm doing what i'm supposed to
we went thru ups and downs like a roller coaster
coast to coast i'm reppin' my town
its 249 till i'm dead in the ground god damn
i'm forever reppin my town
249 and i'm never letting it down god damn
till a nigga dead in the ground
i'm ready to battle it out
i'm reppin my town god
and i'm never letting you down pa,
i'm never gonna settle it down mom,
and i'm never backing down
until they give a nigga back his crown
cause I got

no options left
no options left
no options left
i'm on my own

I REALLY GOT NO OPTION