shadow of death

Singer: jay rock

yeah

los angeles

'welcome to the terrordome'

city of satan

angels can't even get along

no lie

my town covered in darkness

hoping that the sun just shine on us

rolling up the kush

now i'm letting my mind wander

into another place

i ain't tryna go down under

life is like a race and we all tryna finish it

shit never fair

strays hitting the innocent

the good die young where i'm from and it's sad to say

that somebody gotta die today

tomorrow's never promised

but we living for the moment

nigga

time never stops

it just keeps on going

crackers just gave my young nigga four life sentences

twenty-five times four

nigga

do the math

and the hood never have witnesses

cause if we did

then them shots gon' blast

as i reflect

i start realising i wanna

make a way one day for me and my momma

family and friends

this ain't the way my life bout to end

so i'm quick to grab on my pen and

give 'em something my people sure to feel

give 'em something that i know is all the way real

just waking up

mind playing tricks on me

got the fifth on me

gotta take a risk homie

was a ball player till the coach pissed on me

keep it real

i could take you down the list homie

be a tradition

see these chucks be a mission

burner be the fuel to the flame

the key to the ignition

if you banging

be serious

boys run up in your pad

point-blank

period

moms ain't hearing it

niggas said cuz got blasted

oh well

give a shit

shouldn't half-assed it

only time you with it

when your niggas all tripping

caught your ass slipping

now i'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping

riding through the city in lights

living it trife

wrong intersection

ready to fight

hopping out with my own agenda

who the contender?

better hope this motherfucker jam

uh

as i'm hearing the first and second verse

i try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song

i want to tell rock and q to go to church

but that's a hypocrite because i ain't been in so long

i stare at the world from a righteous point of view

and realise a crisis coming

novocain couldn't numb it

the pain is unbearable times two

let's rally a team

summon

and school the youth

how you feel about it?

man

i feel the same way as you

it hurts my soul

like a needle piercing through the bottom of my shoe

and if you behind bars

hold your head

pause

and if you in close range with a nigga with a gun in his waste

i pray the intervention is divine

i got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven

but earlier than expected

what the hell?