[ Featuring Boris Rogers ]
They're playing a different game these days man
It's the long game pay attention
When they come for you they won't have their guns
Etched out from the cold of their holsters
They know now this world is photoshopped
Ready to document their death squad tactics
Their antics archived and video clipped
Facebook status set to go viral
Even though our protest and proof
Never burn their house to ashes
Our death sometimes pins their medals
Lets them retire with a paycheck
But still we fight back best we can
So understand now when they come for you
They're starting at the foundation
Ct your doorstep dressed in disguise
Developer or realtor or hipster
Your best 90s hip hop playing
From their boom box on your block
Dressed in your fashion fitting in
Till they move in and the police rise
Cnd the crime seems to drop
Property tax rising high
Big mama can't keep up
Forced to leave her home of thirty years
Where she raised two generations here
But it is what it is ain't it
More Volvos now and less Chevys
Candy coated painting
Now your street so charming
So alarming ain't it
The sound of neighbors shipped out
Handed hollow vouchers
To places unfamiliar
This be the new slave ship
Go ahead and visit the cool kids
Tell them stories of the haunted trap house
Ghost of dope boy still shedding tears
How you begged the city to tear it down
For three long years still here
Tell them how high school dreams
Sat on the porch waiting
Waiting to snatch the soul
From whoever walked by
Same hood same street corner
Same spot your cousin died
They repaved and renamed it
Something too expensive now
This block don't feel the same
Folks next door call cops on you
Your friends roll through
Strange how things done changed
They call this progress baby
When they come for you they say
It's for the best to clean up the mess
They call it restoration
Free you from mortgage free you from rent
Give you a new destination
Selling you false emancipation
Reshape your school call it reeducation
When you add a word to your vocabulary
Young blood it's called gentrification
