Concrete Jungle

Yeah, this that real talk

Straight from the trenches, no cap

Grew up where the streetlights flicker and die

Sirens sing lullabies through the night sky

Mama working doubles just to keep us fed

While the wolves at the door want us dead instead

Corner store prophets selling broken dreams

Nothing ever really what it seems

Lost homies to the game, lost some to the grave

Every day a battle just to be brave

Skrrt, we move different when you built from pain

Diamonds form under pressure, let's go

Concrete jungle where we fight to survive

Every single day we struggle to stay alive

Concrete jungle, yeah we built this way

Turn our scars into crowns, gang, we here to stay

Teachers gave up, said we wouldn't make it out

Now I'm spitting truth, what this life about

Pops disappeared, left me to be the man

At thirteen holding family in my hands

Saw my brothers choose the block over books

Can't judge when you seen them hungry looks

Police profiling, system designed to fail

Sheesh, either cemetery or the jail

But I refuse to be another statistic, uh

Gonna flip this pain to something realistic

Concrete jungle where we fight to survive

Every single day we struggle to stay alive

Concrete jungle, yeah we built this way

Turn our scars into crowns, gang, we here to stay

From the bottom to the top, yeah

This that hood anthem, it's lit