Neighborhood

(album: Village Days - 2020)

[Kent Jamz:]
Lately I been savin more money
I know snitches get stitches
See I been in the ghetto,
And if you know me, I'm gon get it (Yeah)
Everything I do
I do it all for you
Everything I do, I do it all for you (Uh huh)
Nothin like a new day, in a new world
Nothin like a new day, in a new world
(Feelin like a new world baby)

[Terrace Martin:]
Aye, where you from fool?
This ain't the neighborhood that you come to
Tell me whatcha bangin homie, red or blue
If we decide to off him
Homicide comin ain't nobody talkin
Plead the 5th amendment, everybody walkin
That's how it all goes when the dice roll out
And the elements test what you all about
Another life gone as the world goes round
I know it's so cold, all these lost souls

[Kent Jamz:]
Lately I been savin more money
I know snitches get stitches
See I been in the ghetto,
And if you know me, I'm gon get it (Yeah)
Everything I do
I do it all for you
Everything I do, I do it all for you (Uh huh)
Nothin like a new day, in a new world
Nothin like a new day, in a new world
(Feelin like a new world baby)

[Nick Grant:]
I'm from where cops roll around
Gunshots, it ain't no warnings
The ones that say they love you to death
Be plotting on you
Niggas get football numbers for playin the corner
Home invasion, yeah they all in ya crib like they Willona
Penny for thoughts nigga get lost
Shootin like when white folks do crime
The wigga be off
God help us
Cause even the minister sinister dark
Yeah, you smilin but you're energy speaking grimace remarks
This is art
Our heros become murals
Crackers they make examples out the nigga in the struggle
Who let fiends get a sample
Yeah the kid that's tired of pulling dirty clothes out the hamper
That his brother handed to him
Cause his mother never had it, yeah
His father was an addict
Granny had to pick up the slack
Cause she knows what truly matters to him
I'm grateful for that influence, uh
Bible on the dash
Jesus take the wheel
Steer me from my past
My dreams never belly up
I'm hype behind the cam
Don't ever throw the baby out
With the diaper bag

[Kent Jamz:]
Lately I been savin more money
I know snitches get stitches
See I been in the ghetto,
And if you know me, I'm gon get it (Yeah)
Everything I do
I do it all for you
Everything I do, I do it all for you (Uh huh)
Nothin like a new day, in a new world
Nothin like a new day, in a new world
(Feelin like a new world baby)

[Wyann Vuaghn:]
The rat race
The paper chase
The unending maze
Seems to fade
Around the days
That some call holy
But even that can cause
Other wise men
To argue mangers and halos
With karma and rainbows
And turned the only time
That earth agrees on family
In to some form of greek tragedy
The way I see it
We can call these, Village days
Where regardless of the reason
We get to see some of
The loved ones we missed
During the run and rip of life
Let's count our blessings right
And make ways for the days
Of the village