Ghetto Matrix

The city was cold

Replete with these sheets of old ways

And stained tenements that were built for bold slaves

Days collapse, street's name, perhaps

Were traps, you could see it in the concrete cracks

The lost hope is smoked

The skies would devise for slowpokes

Dreamers who seem to touch zenith

Their arms couldn't reach without touching the breach

A blunder, so the summers woulda summoned police

The heat reached through crevices

To verify the visage of the nemesis

No blemishes to find on this intricate design

And odd no-brainer, the container was the mind

The poverty stricken victims

Produced the paint for the portrait

So humble, yet the struggle was sold and went corporate

It hit the world stage and got celebrated

This odd mix of love and hatred

The ghetto matrix

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

The mantra of the mission:

Make money off the missing

The streets were the rhythm

When the six rounds hit 'em

The shells danced in the moonlight of sunshine

The blues, you could view them on the news at nine

The vines grow over headstones and then homes

Composed to give prose to the anguish and moans

The worries of the world can't stop the cash crop

The blood drop signifies a rise in the stock

The matrix that enslaves us stops to seemingly balk

But can't deny the fact that the act has gone pop

Nonstop, the plot thickens with his and her children

Echoes of the plight, like to have the youth listen

Is it ghetto? Is it urban? Are you certain?

Are you a servant here to keep the sales surgin'?

All in all, it seems that no one can escape it

This odd mix of love and hatred

The ghetto matrix

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind

It's a complex plan that keeps us confined