AVENUE BLUES (feat. Franc West & Vuyo Sotashe)
Orlando Watson
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Aye yo, Brad My mic on Dig All praise be to the Most High Crime sky high, but we stay fly The journalists asking me to testify But they just wanna vilify The revolution televised Storefront churches sold salvation by the boatload And casted conviction to convince us of hell Hoping our adolescent hearts held the cross of Christ closely While clergy crafted us believers to stuff into Sunday service Where prosperity sermons seemed to suit our pastor's pockets And pad black hope with charismatic monologues and what not So we'd opt to learn the "golden rule" by 5 Before we were ever afforded the foresight to comprehend how recess Became recidivism so suddenly Playpens began to resemble penitentiaries without warning As if detention determined warrants and caused the warden to cage us accordingly Holding cells held winos who fought to find their footing On the front steps of underfunded fellowships Fixed next to liquor stores nestled in the nooks of our neighborhood Nevertheless we tossed 10% of our income into wicker baskets Believing our worries were weaved to worship While we gave goods without grudge or necessity Simply seeking to salvage our tattered habitats With hand-me-down doctrine we adopted After Europeans doctored our faith for profit They said a change gone come, but we still waitin' on it to happen All praise be to the Most High Crime sky high, but we stay fly Journalists asking me to testify But they just wanna vilify A revolution televised They prayed that we'd squander Every single summer on corners that catered to cold cash And crack that impacted black families from coast to coast See we watched pimps parade a handful of hoes like BBQ Grippo's And grab chicks like greasy chips we'd chew on choice molars Of course this overexposure molded our perception of women While porn erected our expectations of relations And positioned us to partake in "feline pie" Intended and set aside for committed consumption But we munched as much as possible Proving peer pressure prompted our participation by the plateful We arrested their innocence with coitus Convincing countless queens that we'd protect and serve their sanctity But our oath Our oath was equally as crooked as the cops that profiled our pigment for profit O-o-o-o What have we become Can we find another way Yet we always sing We shall overcome But when will someday come our way Police presumed that our porches full of Pookies and Peaches Transported pockets full of "porch pollen" to people That Clinton sentenced as super-predators with superpowers But we were only scrumptious supper to a sick system That sought to suck our strength from the onset And somehow Our consciousness simmered in assaults that called for action Whenever cops cornered us about color-coded corner culture Before gangs began to understand that our color was the scheme all along Gun-governed ghettos guided our guilt to get good at being bad by the batch But badges beat us to the punch to play stop and frisk for fun Even outside of assigned jurisdictions Precincts pressed their knees into our necks And left us with sentences heavier than our hearts However We've learned to adjust to every injustice that jams us up On this boulevard of broken dreams Still we always say We shall overcome But when will someday come our way
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Written by: A. Watson II, Adrian Watson, Vuyo Sotashe
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