Circle the Block

[00:00.07] Every cop light is for me until it pass
[00:02.83] I'm tryna make sure this black life last
[00:05.23] Circle the block
[00:06.52] I ain't mean to resist
[00:07.71] So officer, why your foot on my neck and my wrist?
[00:10.50] Circle the block
[00:11.62] It's for my mamma man
[00:12.94] So honestly, I don't see what the problem is
[00:16.98] Retaliation is key
[00:18.26] And you know what to do if they ever get to me
[00:20.83] Circle the back now, figure out
[00:22.62] Special knock, pat down, plan of attack
[00:24.89] How we rise from ash, foul
[00:26.99] What they did to us, nigga it's not fair
[00:28.80] I don't care, I dont know what they saw in my hair
[00:31.23] That made them dread it to the point
[00:32.76] Of being issues on sight
[00:34.07] Clipped wings from the flight
[00:35.49] Told 'em meet at the light
[00:36.63] Didn't see him that night
[00:37.89] But somehow lifelike
[00:39.28] Uh
[00:39.76] And if the next word out your mouth is "huh?"
[00:41.74] I'mma slap the black off you
[00:43.34] Getting back, we off to
[00:44.65] The corner store, devise plans in there
[00:47.07] Theres a dark feeling
[00:48.15] Something way more than scared
[00:49.69] You thinking it don't exist
[00:50.98] The crime getting dismissed
[00:52.34] It persists in my mother
[00:53.57] It materialize
[00:54.90] Formed as something
[00:55.88] Im trying not to spread to mine
[00:57.59] Mama the sun
[00:58.32] So water never fall from her eyes
[01:00.18] In exchange for that heat
[01:01.30] I don't think she can cry
[01:02.66] And every cop light
[01:03.85] Every cop light is for me until it pass (Every cop light)
[01:05.76] I'm tryna make sure this black life last (Yeah, every cop light)
[01:08.07] Circle the block
[01:09.37] I ain't mean to resist
[01:10.35] So officer, why your foot on my neck and my wrist?
[01:13.07] Circle the block
[01:14.28] It's for my mamma man
[01:15.68] So honestly, I don't see what the problem is
[01:19.54] Retaliation is key
[01:20.93] And you know what to do if they ever get to me
[01:24.38] Pop off, cut 'em out like the middle man
[01:26.77] If you see the red and blue
[01:27.83] Tu-tu-tu, fight back
[01:29.47] Cops on the street, outside the bodega
[01:31.22] We pourin' this shit out that we just bought
[01:32.87] For all of my niggas that we lost
[01:34.81] Hooded up and we ain't tryna start a fight
[01:36.68] Unless you really 'bout it nigga
[01:38.03] It's been a long night for us black boys
[01:40.17] Who's hobbies are bodying what we feel
[01:42.07] And stop killing my trans fam for real, for real
[01:44.71] I'm loud and about it
[01:45.79] We fighting for homies
[01:46.63] Who ain't allowed to be loud and about it
[01:48.62] Something be sprouting up in these areas
[01:50.98] I don't plan to resist
[01:52.13] So officer, why your foot on my neck and my wrist?
[01:54.63] Grip to a fist
[01:55.65] You know the move, if he with the shits
[01:57.24] Never submit
[01:58.09] Fuck around, he might hit me with the brick
[01:59.99] Then i'm gone
[02:00.99] Really no pity for sympathizers
[02:02.96] Rebel from your oppressors
[02:04.16] And bang on colonizers
[02:05.34] Every cop light is for me until it pass (Ha ha ha ha)
[02:08.15] I'm tryna make sure this black life last (Yeah)
[02:10.35] Circle the block
[02:11.63] I ain't mean to resist
[02:12.97] So officer, why your foot on my neck and my wrist?
[02:15.78] Circle the block
[02:16.81] It's for my mamma man
[02:18.24] So honestly, I don't see what the problem is
[02:22.10] Retaliation is key
[02:23.57] And you know what to do if they ever
[02:25.47] If they ever
[02:28.17] If they ever, if they ever
[02:30.67] If they ever get to me
[02:33.23] If they ever get to me
[02:35.81] If they ever get to me
[02:38.84] Circle the block
[02:41.61] Circle
[02:44.12] Circle the block
[02:52.23] Circle, circle, circle
[02:54.74] Circle, circle, circle
[03:02.65] Hah
[03:23.51] Uh
[03:27.47] Yeah, yeah, get 'em
[03:34.18] Get it
[03:37.97] Circle, circle, circle
[03:44.40] Circle
[03:52.28] Circle
[03:58.16] If they ever, get to me
[04:01.48] If they ever get to me
[04:04.04] Retaliation's key
[04:06.23] What do you see when you see me
[04:08.83] Any chance they can take out in the street
[04:14.18] I circle the block
[04:16.07] Circle the block
[04:17.45] Circle, circle, circle, circle
[04:21.36] Circle
[04:22.55] Circle, circle, circle, circle
[04:26.35] Circle, circle
[04:29.01] Circle the block
[04:35.77] Circle the block
[04:38.01] Can't call, cant park
[04:40.57] Can't reach for the box
[04:43.14] Can't call, cant park
[04:45.68] Can't reach for the box
[04:48.21] Hands up, for an op?
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