it's a lot of things going on slowly go
fol I'm going tell you this we losing
generations of amongst these Youth and
kids out here just dying but I'm going
tell you this it's a genocide going on
on this low end and the south side of
Chicago say I got two brothers and a
little sister two of my brothers get
killed and I get killed those whole
Generations getting wiped out right now
on these streets of
Chicago
for you for you don't let the rocks cry
out on your and I like what sister said
no matter how tired I am Hallelujah she
pressed away one more service again Yes
again because there's no time in our
lives where we trying to get Lord I Need
A J finances Lord I through the door I
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I hate the word
shat don't give us a name don't take the
perception and turn it into something we
live here you're blanketing entire
communities because of your
perception if you believe that that's
what you believe but don't give us a
name I have a name and so I'm now I'm
supposed to take the violence and give
it its power by cling it what is that
saying to the young people
I my number one
issue is giving young people
hope if they had hope in the midst of
their environment our whole communities
would change but people don't want to
give them hope and I don't know why that
is it's it doesn't cost them
anything but I found it to be more
powerful than the gun
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what I love about Chicago is that it's
way bigger than what people see on the
news and it's way more positive than
what people see on the news you know
everybody like you be careful you know
they they done kill like 50 people over
the week getting 150 got shot I said I a
see none of that until I turned on the
news
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what so if I had to describe the
Southside to someone that isn't from
here I would tell them that it's pretty
underrated people think this is a
terrible place and nothing but violence
goes on but this is where I'm from so
this is my home this is where I feel
safe you don't even have to like look at
statistics or papers or numbers like you
can just tell by walking a day in a
street on the south side of Chicago and
know like the cut of our budget is much
lower than it is on the North side or
downtown because if you walk down our
streets you'll see garbage littered
everywhere going to a corner store all
you see is chips and like junk food
there's no easy access to healthy food
on the south side which is a major way
of oppressing black people as a person
I'm very proud of me being aware of my
situation and being aware of what power
I have and so me being young I could
follow after the footsteps of uh OG on
the Block and be going around shooting
people but me having my knowledge of
what could go on and only being able to
imagine the families that have lost and
suffered due to gun violence
and I'm proud of myself because I know
what not to do and what to do what
really compelled me to realize that I
need to wake up and try to like strive
for fighting for making my community
better was I knew like the pain that's
going through certain people because of
their cousins or their daughters or
their son who got shot and me knowing
that I could have stopped that if if
there were enough people with the
knowledge like I have that we could have
stopped that and then the south side of
Chicago wouldn't be as dangerous just as
it is now in a moment of like
hopelessness and you not thinking that
you could be anything the only really
way you can get out of that is knowing
what you could be and knowing what you
could have if you had hope so me giving
to them what they could be would just
bring them out and make them more
hopeful of who they
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are you know what I'm saying it's so
many of us Brothers out here man that
want jobs that could that'll hold a job
man that ain't giving a chance they
don't give us a chance to do nothing
they don't give us a chance to do
nothing
bro I heard the southside's Under
Fire but that's a lie because my city
still inspires young black babies to
build selfesteem Empires that can't be
broken by no misconceptions by how we
live in a section that breeds
criminals now look into Chloe's eyes and
tell me you see a killer tell me you see
a conict tell me you see a [ __ ] cuz all I
see is Hope a nepti Offspring who love
beams as she runs this concrete jungle
not afraid to dream you see mama raised
a
queen protected by Southside Kings so
it's ironic they call call it Shy rack
cuz ain't nothing shy about these
babies and the only racks we stack is to
buy fried chicken biscuits and
gravy but I heard the South sides Under
Fire no no darling that's that
misinformation spread by content
suppliers who never had a conversation
with the Southside church congregation
that truly believes in this community's
resilience
it can't be broken by no misconception
about how we live in a section that
breeds
criminals now look into zon's eyes and
tell me you see a killer tell me you see
a convict tell me you see a
[ __ ] cuz all I see
is all I see is a Fearless Beauty who
explores these alleys and L train steps
on his way to the barber shop where
black men laugh mightily to balance out
the days they wept nights we slept on
concrete futons but see our spirit can't
be devalued by no handcuffs attached to
a Penitentiary
coupon looking through the lens of a
camera held by the hands of the purest
of souls this ain't thought control
can't be bought or sold but see them shy
streets be Antarctic cold
I'm here to return every dream that was
stole and produce soul food like what
came off my Grandmama stove cuz with a
little bit of shine this excellent
Blackness can
glow
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