Master your darkness before it masters you
Buy the Rubber Hand Grip and learn how to shoot
Walking on an old Red Line, I see where Ka shined
One bedrooms for rent, deep Brownsville, no trains
She was frozen by sunlight and second gen tardive
Stepped through the door like a paratrooper
Hit the B, got the fuck away from me, got free
Fuck ICE but the Bald-headed Kangols shoppin'
For wifey and PYT, didn't even turn around to see
Javier getting yoinked from out the stock room
And into the Black Van waiting down the street
Pseudo concentration camp run by jingoist idiots
Overseas treaty created statelessness intentionally
Law the driver, anger the shooter, love the mourner
Angel candles burning on every sidewalk and stoop
Wilted flowers to mark the death of another civilian
Minding their own business when business slid out
Crashed out, black box is twenty Ring cameras, ten
Security feeds, and three witnesses but still it's
Fliers and Crimestoppers ads, homies on a corner
Your brother in court, Custer's Last Stand, learn
Later the flip was unplanned but it doesn't matter
It was all contrived, the man trap set long ago
It was stars when you hit the ground, wind knocked
Out, knee fucked, a stretcher onto a helicopter
It was steady limping up to the Kroger Pharmacy
Bent over dope sick until you hit the rip, single stall
Smoke alarm and narcan the alarm clock, no EMTs
Needle in your arm but you got yourself free
Supply-side economics, it's balloons and tin foil
Got a little side hustle hustling halfway houses
Run by close friends, cash for blow and dope on
Credit, numb to climbing the stairway of slit necks
Trying to look like Roc but die like Peep, tragedy
Modern Scarface but it's all in your head, listen
The end ain't something you can see until too late
Like a screenshot of a plot sent ahead to the target
Dirty Sprite in the double cup, Pimp C in the hotel
It's the press pill they gave to Mac in the tour bus
Or the hot spot on the deuce, smoked in solitary
Solidarity, a velvet continuation, fent in the ramen
The blunt lasts longer when the humidity is up
Kids with ACEs hung from the ladders lowest rung