I remember growing in the city
Some moments lovely others shitty
Millions living in the buildings
Where the alleys would be gritty
Feel me
Im from brooklyn we were
Coney island wildin
Next to nathans
Home of glizzys
My hair was frizzy
Pigs profiling racist visions
They're compiling in their patties
For their raids
Their blickies sprayed
We faced the danger,
Could have lost our lives
On any fucking day
They were possessed with hatred
And we were oppressed
And had to stay living in this way

Vivid city living
Summers boiling
Winters frigid
Souls diminished
In a grind that
Would eat up all your time
When you're growing it seems fine

But when you're grown it seems
You're going out your mind
Always caught inside a bind
You couldn't wait till you could
Leave your youth behind
Now in your mind
You wish that you could just rewind

Man I'd be hittin summer blocks
Where the parties wouldn't stop
Till someone dropped
We'd set up shop
Depending on the crew that i was with
I had possies that rolled thick
I was all city with my shit
So I knew so many people
I had passes to be chilling
In the hoods around the city
It was almost like a gift
I tried convincing different homies
To go with me throughout the boroughs
But most didn't wanna go,
I wouldn't trip
I was curious to see the world
Around me in my town
Where so much shit would go down
In the city of the crown
In the state of the empire
Where desires would all bound
Together and some bodies
Would be found



Vivid city living
Summers boiling
Winters frigid
Souls diminished
In a grind that
Would eat up all your time
When you're growing it seems fine

But when you're grown it seems
You're going out your mind
Always caught inside a bind
You couldn't wait till you could
Leave your youth behind
Now in your mind
You wish that you could just rewind

Sometimes I reminisce to think
Of this how we lived as if
We all had a death wish
They say that ignorance is bliss
And it was true for certain moments
But alao misery was there
With confusion mingled in the air
In my hood where i grew up
It was impolite to stare
There was tension in the air
And the air is everywhere
All the wars that were declared
Around me living wasn't fair
I barely cared
I wasn't scared
I would travel across borders
Defying orders of the elders
I would dare
Opposition to say something
Wasn't fronting
I just felt love in every hood I'd go
As if I felt its soul
Id go where I wanna go
And noone could telle no
Im just a child of the city
Im the product of the ghetto
Of all ghettos where Id roam
And the ghettos universal
In every city I have a home