Fifty

Know why I put myself out there for all to see? 'Cos noone cares about my brothers more than me Course we're disadvantaged But we got to take control by force 'cos this is carnage I don't care if I killed a game and they don't want to crown me The only reason people hear what I'm saying Is that I feel the same when there's noone around me All I need is fifty man, just fifty man I ain't even planning nothing shifty, fam You say you can't stand the state of the hood So I dare you to commit to that statement for good I'm saying fifty man, just fifty man Just a brother utilising every gift he can To make sure my little brothers and sisters in the ghetto Don’t fall victim to the system and the metal Understand that it’s you that I’m speaking to Do you not realise what we can do? Get a foot in the door and start sneaking through I’m looking for more than hearts beating too This ain’t rhetoric, I’m not a demagogue If I was American, I’d rhyme that with a hella fog ‘Cos that’s what we’re trapped in Gassed up with this trap ting And then perpetuating all of that stuff with this rap ting There’s forces that play that want to cause disarray I’m like how can you lot not see it? If you ever see me looking pissed and pensive That’s ‘cos it’s so obvious it’s offensive I told my guy keep your eyes on tomorrow It’s hard but it’s only greasy for you today He said easy for you to say I ain’t sure to succeed When you live in a drought, you can’t water the seed I got a daughter to feed, I barely taught her to read It’s hell, G, this fucking estate’s tense So tell me something that makes sense I told them watch me closely as I lift each hand I need fifty man Let’s run with this race and take over, give this place a make over Muslim, Rasta, if the Witness ain’t of Jehovah I don’t care, we’re going to finally break through If you don’t let society shape you It ain’t true that the business makes the stakeholder No, Cuz, that’s a big mistake that they told us We got so much in common but we focus on our differences And we expect the effect not to be bogus on our infant kids What do you think they think of this? Make inferences Emotions spinning out of a ??? I ain’t inspirational, I just wake yous up We’re the only hope for kids that harbour this stress because of fatherlessness Am I the only one that cares about half of this mess? People out there want to tame and control us The rest of them think we’re insane and we’re soulless The pain of the boulders and flame in our shoulders Is exactly why I’m here blaming the olders ‘Cos this is real life and they should have told us But they didn’t so now we’re finding out the hard way Learning it’s impossible to grind without the heartache But you’re not a soldier if you whine about the past dates Look what we got through, what can we not do? I want to see the gang mandem organise the border lines And make sure the guys from the other side can’t come and ride on our side on a homicidal car ride Imagining myself getting killed off by a pagan and I feels annihilation From the hills that I’m adjacent to towards the fire station I’d be dead in the ground and still feel the violation I don’t want none of my brothers to die anymore Who wants any other mothers to cry anymore? So I’m talking to the rappers, talking to the trappers Talking to the kids about to walk into the madness Somewhere along the lines, somebody tricked you Into sticking to the script big companies stick to So if you ain’t with me, it’s a solo fight ‘cos these kids ain’t getting the meaning of YOLO right I need fifty