Beginnings

Baptized in gun powder First prayer was a shotgun, learned the gospel from the dirt. Six blocks deep, where the names get crossed out. Every wall’s a eulogy, every corner got a drought. We don’t march, we mobilize — flags stitched outta scars. Tattoos tell our history, but the ink’s mixed with bars. Night falls, engines growl, headlights cut the blind. Opp block lit up like July, but it ain’t fireworks this time. Radio crackle: “They on 8th.” Answer back in brass. Turn the street to static, leave the pavement under glass. Brothers post on rooftops, angels with the iron wings. When the block say “go”, the sky forgets how to sing. I keep my heart in a safe where the combination’s blood. If you ain’t born in this thunder, you’ll drown in the flood. [Loop] Six blocks deep, where the kings and the killers sleep. Every step a debt, every breath you gotta keep. Red and blue don’t save you, they just trace the scene. We the law of the asphalt — crown heavy, jaws clenched. Six blocks deep, let the choppers speak. If peace was a person, we’d watch it bleed [Vers] Mama buried three sons, still got one in the wind. That’s me — last letter, last sin. We was kids with water guns, now the metal don’t squirt.Trade school was the morgue, learned to measure a shirt. By the holes in the chest, by the chalk on the earth. Rival set claim to the store on the east — said it’s theirs. Next day, storefront’s gone and the air tastes like prayers. We don’t tag for fame, we tag for funerals. Every X on the map mean a brother that’s numeral. Now a memory, now a reason to slide at 3AM No masks, no mercy, just the face that they condemned. Judge call it homicide, I call it inheritance. My last name’s carved in shell casings, that’s the testament. [Loop] Six blocks deep, where the kings and the killers sleep. Every step a debt, every breath you gotta keep. Red and blue don’t save you, they just trace the scene. We the law of the asphalt — crown heavy, jaws clenched. Six blocks deep, let the choppers speak. If peace was a person, we’d watch it bleed [Vers] You want the block? Come and audit the graves. We been keeping books in red since the second grade [Bridge] Sirens harmonize with the bass. All my generals got ghosts on their payroll All my soldiers got dreams that they can’t unfold. They tell us“change,” but the street don’t do refunds. We was born in the debt — now we collect with the guns. If I die tonight, don’t you cry on the news.Just paint my name on the curb and let the block light the fuse [Verse] Winter here don’t bring snow, it bring silence and smoke. Every breath a vapor, every promise that we broke. Little cuz ask me, “Why the sky always gray. ’Cause the sun got evicted when the block learned to spray. We got rules: never run, never beg, never fold. If you caught slipping, then your story’s already told. Fed case stacked tall, but the witnesses turn ash. Money dirty, laundry clean, but the soul don’t get a wash. Last ride: tint black, no plates,