GZA/Genius


Beneath The Surface


Victim


[Joan Davis]
Chorus:
Just another victim of the, victim of the ghetto
Just another victim, that's how it goes, ooohh

[GZA/Genius]
Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day
Adolescent's workin for small pay
World so little he could never leave his block
His home bullet riddled so he always need his glock
He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smokin
Young wasted minds fiendin on dimes, cokin
We got kids quick to break rules and known to make fools
Out of many, now the streets be more safe than schools
There's no diploma that can break you from the coma
A bloody war in the country, the youth hungry
On the corner hyenas amongst me
Yappin bout the stories they be hearin, always swearin
Can't even spell the shit that he be wearin
Caught up in the silk web of material
Superficial stains your brain tissue, that's the issue
The young is lost at their own cost, dreamin
Screamin how we never hold positions that's demeanin
Mothers of murder victims share the same grief
The elderly shake their head in disbelief
And no relief came until I aimed
And blast one shot and left my name
The GZA...

[Joan Davis]
Chorus

[Njeri]
My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks on torn down blocks
Drug spots set up their shops and cops watch
Innocent niggaz roamin in flocks
Romanism in tops, papers and knots
Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot to get money knots
Some funny niggaz act like they could pop glocks and those who can't cop
Sisters givin up ass a lot, brothers givin up cash a lot
They be strugglin to become someone because their parent's not
Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle
And the devil uncivils society and die free
With double W followed by J-D around the necks and wrists
The God is now a dog, the earth is called a bitch
And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness to push a lexus
Ice on everythin from rings and braclets to the necklaces
Children molested within these pest infested buildins
Thieves uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilins
Is peelin off, but all I see is lost black babies callin
"Please somebody save me, please somebody save me"

[Joan Davis]
Chorus (2x)

Just another
Just another
Victim of the ghetto


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