Room With a View
Brother Ali

One side of the street is Malone's funeral home

and the other side's a library

try very hard to picture this shit

walk through where I live at

where parents are embarrassed to tell you they raise their kids at

if you need some half and half or an eight ball you could get that

fuck with little Rodney and you get all of your ribs cracked

in a location where slangin' crack rock is not seen a fuckin' recreation but a vocation

and the sellers and the smokers are both pacin'

got one eye on Minneapolic PD they both racin'

three for fifty is the supply and demand

in the twin cities, American heartland

and they been busy, masterminds tearing apart plans

and hoop dreamers ballin' with blisters on their hands

with chains dangling from the rims

pain strangles them from within

until a belt around the arm makes the veins stand at attention

I try to block it out with a bed sheet that moonlights as a curtain

cause I'm not comforted by red and blue lights when I'm hurting

“Mommy loves you”, yeah I knew but I wasn't certain

cause the lenses through which she views life wasn't working

As a boy she told me, “wait for your father to come home”

I'm 24, still waiting for my father to come home

And some parents only touch their children when the whips brought

That's why bad kids to bad shit, just so they can get caught

and get touched; this growing up shit's rough

that's a big part of why we're so mixed up

shit, we don't have bah mitzvahs

we become men the first time our father hits us

And we don't open gifts up

Sister Regina from across the street is beautiful

But for fifty bucks aint nothing she won't do to you

Used to be premium pussy, now she's used up

for that same fifty bucks she gotta do some new stuff

Whatever it takes to make you pull the dollars out

if you don't intervene then there's a day she'll turn her daughter out

Speaking of kids, I'm fixing lunch for my first born

I had the windows wide open ‘cause the weather's warm

that's when the greatest hits of Donnie Hathaway

got interrupted by a drive-by shooting half a block away

Faheem was I the window, he didn't get hit though

“all praise due Allah”

(x3)

I see all this from the desk that I write my rhymes from

pen starts to scribble on it's own, my mind's numb

but you could call me modern urban Norman Rockwell

I paint a picture of the spot well

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4th King All You Need Baby Don't Go Babygirl Back Stage Pacin' Bad Ma Fucka Bad Mufucker Pt. II Bad Mufucker, Pt. II Begin Here Best @it Best@It Bitchslap! blah blah blah Blah Blah Blah (Featuring Slug) Breakin Dawn Breakin' Dawn Brothers and Sisters Chain Link Champion Champion (Remix) Champion... Crown Jewel Daylight Dorian Ear To Ear Electric Energy Faheem Fajr Five Fingers Of Death Forest Whitaker Forest Whitiker Freedom Ain't Free Freedom Aint Free Fresh Air Games Gather Round Good Lord Here House Keys Letter From The Government Letter To My Countrymen Life Sentence Little Rodney Lookin at Me Sideways Lookin' At Me Sideways Missing Teeth Mourning In America My Beloved Namesake Nardwuar Need a Knot Nice Double Em Nine Double 'Em Nine Double Em Only Life I Know Palm The Joker Pay Them Back Pedigree Philistine David Picket Fence Prince Charming Rain Water Real As Can Be Say Amen Self Taught Shadows On The Sun Shine On Singing This Song Sleepwalker Slippin' Away Soul Whisper Star Quality Stop The Press Take Me Home The Believers The Bite Marked Heart The freshest kids The Preacher The Puzzle The Travelers They're Finished Think It Through Tight Rope Truth Is Uncle Sam Goddamn Us Victory! (Come Forward) Walking Away Watcha Got Whatcha' Got When The Beat Comes In Win Some Lose Some Work Everyday Writer's Block Writer\u2019s Block Years You Say (Puppy Love)

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