Food Clothes and Shelter Lyrics

[sticman]
Yeahâ€Â¦for all my peoples that's hungry

[chorus]
A nigga need food, ya got to have food for ya health
And clothes, gear to keep a steam for yaself
Son, shelter, a place to lay for rest when ya stressed
Over life, 'cause it's trife and aint no god gon help ya

[sticman]
I feel the winter heart creepinâ€Â¦vicious as the wind, which is life,
when it's deep without a meaninâ€Â¦a trife scene it screams
Niggas fiendinâ€Â¦the pipe dream and some be seemin
like the only way to keep breathin in the slumsâ€Â¦but nothing comes
And keeping funds is like dreaminâ€Â¦
my situation no solutionâ€Â¦even the young become demons
Where I'm from shit is unyieldingâ€Â¦Something like three-hundred million
gun wielding black rats trapped in one building
With low ceilingsâ€Â¦and no feelingsâ€Â¦
cutthroat villainsâ€Â¦ Dope dealingsâ€Â¦and glossy eyed pavilions
Sunken facesâ€Â¦and powder tracesâ€Â¦
My people slave for the basicsâ€Â¦the powerless devoured in the matrix
Of politics, pimps and glass pipesâ€Â¦
From gun blast and flickin off blunt ashâ€Â¦the cash heist
The fast lifeâ€Â¦ where the have-nots rule
Stick and grab plotsâ€Â¦toting tools, victim last by some jewels
Round the world, we stay stuck in capsulesâ€Â¦shackled
And crackas got homes like castles
I figure the only way this nigga got to go is wild
Plottin licks for liberationâ€Â¦stockin cap style
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[chorus x2]

[m-1]
I was born in the storm hearin gun clap from thunder
See my childhood peersâ€Â¦catchin years by the number
I wake up from hungerâ€Â¦try to lift my stress that I'm under
How I made it this far makes me wonder
You in a fight for ya life, for basic human rights
Can't afford the boomin pricesâ€Â¦it's economic crisis
Life is a sacrifice, I'm down to my last bag of rice
They forcin us to live like laboratory mice
Like fuckin laboratory mice that's right
You wear the camaflougeâ€Â¦but do u choose to live the soldiers life
I told u before this is a war not a play fight
Taught to be a slave from the womb to the gravesite
Some of us even share the views of the Kaina Knights
Tryna be whiteâ€Â¦but they gon lose in this game of life
So dead that! I tie my dread back and schemeâ€Â¦
Put a star on my red black and greenâ€Â¦

[chorus x2]

[bridge]
What do power mean, our team
seem to think it means sour cream
'cause our dreams got us fiendin for the power son
And huey p said political power come from the barrel of the gun
What do power mean, I believe in thieving
And smoking weed, 'cause everything happens for a reason
I hope my seed grow up and get even, it's open season
And if you poor and black, you know the reasonâ€Â¦yeah