Текст песни: What You Know About Baltimore + перевод

From the city where everybody talk with their hands

Forget the 9−5, most hustles revolve around grams

Live for the moment we ain’t working no plan

And the favorite saying is «It is what it is.»

I mean the kids sit back and try to emulate us

The cops had to regroup, yeah they ran out of cuffs

So now they string us up on some cowboy wildstyle

The saga continues, but meanwhile

Grandma she getting closer to death

Bible in hand, eyes closed clutching her chest

All the hate in the air make it harder to breathe

And all the cameras in the hood make it hard to believe

Little man riding that five and he die for his creed

Yeah they grew up so quick nobody clocking their speed

But it’s just us so just B-more

And if you ain’t feeling that yeah this song is for ya’ll

What you know about Baltimore

Things have changed since back in the days

Just like we all stubborn, we all stuck in our ways

Nobody care no more

Nobody got a heart nobody feel no more

They move the blacks to the county on some reconstruction

They say «Everywhere we go all we bring is destruction" — What?

Man this city was built on our backs

But we lost our history we know they hide all the facts

Remember when the Arabs would come through with the fruit

Saturday morning- everybody cleaning the stoop

Back when we stuck together and looked out for the youth

Now we over ourselves and ya’ll know it’s the truth

But if we keep this up we gonna die like this

And if you got kids they won’t survive like this

Look; it’s just us so just B-more

And if you ain’t feeling that yeah this song is for ya’ll

What you know about Baltimore

(People don’t realize what they about to do in this city

I got friends in the game man, these politicians

They tell me everything that’s going on in this city man

And I really feel that we’re not taking advantages of all the things about to

pop off

In the next 3 years- I’m starting to see it on TV now about slot machines and

stuff like that

It’s gonna be casinos man, these casinos need music, man; you understand what

I’m saying?

Why should they go out of town and hire a different act

When they got a mess load of people right here that can give them the raw

Baltimore?

You know- I mean; they tearing down buildings everywhere downtown to build them

condos, man

They tearing down a lot of different things, like, you know-

And they putting up condos- these condos are gonna be filled with people

A different market of music and people that’s gonna be spending money

And trying to get to know our culture

You understand- our Baltimore culture- you understand what I’m saying?

Man; I’m not going nowhere

I’m staying here

A chick told me to- uh, the

I’m here to say that we are gonna make it

And I’m not leaving until my fingers bleed

You understand?)

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