[00:00:01] Street Corner- Masta Killa [00:00:01] Looking on various street corners [00:00:03] I'm sure you've seen it yourself [00:00:05] Standing on the corner is an alleged brother [00:00:09] Dressed in blue or green red and black [00:00:13] And starting the news that the revolution is coming [00:00:17] And you better get ready sort of like [00:00:19] The end of the world is coming unfortunetly [00:00:21] The world is just gonna drag on and on [00:00:24] And we have a poem that we've written particularly [00:00:28] For the brothers on the street corners [00:00:30] When the revolution come you can see me on the front line [00:00:34] Firing my gun standing right beside my son [00:00:36] If I go it's understood that I stood for something [00:00:39] When my whole life they told me I was good for nothing [00:00:42] I was raised by the stray dogs blazed off layed off [00:00:46] Breaking laws graveyard shifting every day war [00:00:49] Focus now notice how things change soldier [00:00:52] I remain the same I'm older now I embrace the pain [00:00:55] I blame the struggle nearly drove me insane [00:00:58] Thought I lost my head til my brethren told me the same [00:01:01] No tears for the reaper I've buried bout a thousand [00:01:04] In graffiti "rest in peace" sprayed off throughout the housing [00:01:08] I tried to stay civilized the hood's a prison inside [00:01:11] The only difference is the doors don't slide [00:01:13] Still we trapped in the animal cage cuz we got animal ways [00:01:17] So we react with the animal rage [00:01:19] And my sex is real weapons peel cheddar's the deal [00:01:23] Seen the depths of hell now I stare death in the grill [00:01:26] From the slave ships to today's bricks same shit [00:01:29] I'm awake to the wickedness and one with the pavement [00:01:32] The all great mind stays divine my hands remain deadly [00:01:35] We shine without the hung jewelry produce light [00:01:38] That'll travel through mics now as the time riping [00:01:42] We took words that we nourishing encouriging [00:01:44] A nation to awaken those who were sleeping [00:01:48] Can you conceive the thought Transatlantic import [00:01:52] Slave and bought cheaper relations between blacks & jews [00:01:55] Might set a fuse off in the head many dead [00:01:58] Lynch hung swung from trees [00:02:00] Brothers in the struggle together eat from one pot [00:02:03] Hold each other down to the sneaker nothing come between us [00:02:06] Fast money and chicks did it to the best of flicks [00:02:10] It's sickening huh [00:02:16] It's me and you son forever in the struggle [00:02:19] No doubt we hustle survival is the motto [00:02:22] Will you soon follow a better tomorrow for a better tomorrow [00:02:28] It's me and you son forever in the struggle [00:02:31] No doubt we hustle survival is the motto [00:02:34] Will you soon follow a better tomorrow for a better tomorrow [00:02:40] I catch a few flashbacks about going through the struggle [00:02:43] How we used to make dollars from all the snow we shoveled [00:02:46] In a broke neighborhood where the kids often dream [00:02:50] About a laverage life that is mostly seen in the screen [00:02:53] Where some dreams are quickly cut short due to gang violence [00:02:56] From loud guns that kept witnesses in deep silence [00:02:59] Was it bad timing jealousy from too much shining [00:03:02] Or a set up from a girl that he wined kept dining [00:03:05] It's a known fact they will attack cuz it's like that [00:03:08] And depending on the kind of impact that strike back [00:03:11] In a town where the talk is cheap and beef is brief [00:03:14] A mother sobs uncontrollably and exhibit the grief [00:03:17] Large holes in the front door of a housing tenement [00:03:21] Allows room to retaliate so conflict is imminent [00:03:24] This hate in the brain destroys the cells like cancer [00:03:27] Even experts are stuck with more questions than answers