Backblock Scriptures

Load the tape

Shut the gate

We don’t talk

We demonstrate (yeah)

I came up

on late plates, cold floors, chipped plates

Whole block

learned real fast how risk tastes

Tucked pride

in the same drawer I hid case

Talk cheap

where I’m from, every word’s traced

Slide through

hoodie low, mind sharper than switchblade

Seen friends

turn ghost quicker than mist fade

Steel face

when the rent late, wrists chained

Still prayed

over ten-dollar rib cage

Mama said

“Choose peace,” but the world picked war

So I walked

with a calm rage under my jaw

If respect

got a price tag, we settle the score

Ink deep

on my knuckles like I signed that law

This that backblock scripture

carved in the brick, not a picture

Whole crew stand on the mixture

Love thin, code thick, move quicker

If you ride, then ride, don’t whisper

If you slide, then slide, no flicker

Whole life on the line, one flicker

This that backblock, backblock scripture (yeah)

Heart cold

but the grind got a fever in it

I don’t brag

every scar got a meaning in it

I don’t bang

on the net, I just lean and pivot

Make plays

in a storm, keep the demons livid

Big step

through the hate like a custom fit

Talk tough

but they fold when the pressure hits

I been broke

so long that the hunger fits

Like a suit

to my frame, I was cut for this

Tell ’em speak

on my name, better speak with proof

Been a wolf

too long, I done chewed through roofs

From the stoop

to the stage, still the same old boots

If the bag

ain’t clean, then we curve that route

This that backblock scripture

carved in the brick, not a picture

Whole crew stand on the mixture

Love thin, code thick, move quicker

If you ride, then ride, don’t whisper

If you slide, then slide, no flicker

Whole life on the line, one flicker

This that backblock, backblock scripture (uh)

Ain’t a game

when your face on a face sheet

I know dudes

did years off a one week

I know moms

turn numb ’cause the pain deep

I know kids

learn pride from a stained tee

Still we laugh

in the dark ’til our ribs hurt

Turn dirt

into gold, make the pain work

Whole team

one word, that’s the main perk

If I fall

they gon’ ride ’til the flame burst (skrrt)

I don’t chase

what they chase, that’s a small view

I need acres

for the fam and a calm view

But I keep

one foot where the scars grew

’Cause the block

made a boss out a lost youth

This that backblock scripture

carved in the brick, not a picture

Whole crew stand on the mixture

Love thin, code thick, move quicker

If you ride, then ride, don’t whisper

If you slide, then slide, no flicker

Whole life on the line, one flicker

This that backblock, backblock scripture (backblock)

Backblock

scripture

Every line

like a fixture

Say your name

stand stricter

Or get wrote out

of the picture