The Neighborhood
Common

feat. Cocaine 80's & Lil Herb


[Intro: James Fauntleroy]
Thousand lives ago
We were young and we didn't know
We were trading our crowns for our souls
Made the sacrifice
Headed back to the light
But be careful don't drown in the gold
I know it glows but it's cold

[Sample]
I'm from the other side of town
Out of bounds
To anybody who don't live around
I never learned to share or how to care
I never had no teachings about being fair

[Verse 1: Common]
Have you ever heard of Black Stone around Black Stones?
And Four Corner Hustlers, Vice Lords, Stony Island on Aces
The concrete matrix, street organizations
They gave violations, hood public relations
It was the basics to get big faces
Stay away from cases, bad broads, good graces
The hustles was the taste makers and trend setters
They the ones that fed us hopin' that the feds don't get us
The era of Reagan, the terror of Bush
Crack babies, momma's a push, we were the products of Bush
I'm wishin' for a Samurai Suzuki and a little Gucci
A bad ho to [?] do me, you heard of flukey?
Stokes it was folks and coke and dope
Fiends choked off of smoke, herringbones and rope
Rare jewels of a generation
Diamonds, blind enough so real shit we facin'
Forties wasted on seats, Dion makin' the beats
When they air it out on at the parties we escapin' the heat
I could break it down like whatever you need
He squinted his face and rolled the weed

[Interlude]
You know they don't see sometimes
That in the neighborhood
It's the exact same thing
It's the same thing over and over again
Feel me?

[Verse 2: Lil Herb]
Have you ever heard of no limit, three hundred, six hundred?
Folly boy, O block, eastside
Where it ain't no conversation they just let them heats ride
Can't nobody stop the violence, why my city keep lyin'?
Niggas throw up peace signs but everybody keep dying
Used to post up on that strip, I look like a street sign
I've been out there three days and I got shot at three times
Felt like every bullet hit me when they flew out each nine
I be happy when I wake up and I have a free mind
I know haters wanna clap me up, watch the morgue grab me up
But they can catch me later, I been cool, chasin' paper
Where I come from ain't no hope if you was claimin' that was major
Small crib, big fam, mom was workin', grammy raised us
No food in the refrigerator, I was bangin', pullin' capers, that's real shit
Same niggas from day one boy, yeah I'm still with
Better watch out for that jump shot cause they will hit
Hungry take your shorty lunchbox, and won't feel shit
I came from a place where it's basic but you won't make it
Feds buildin' cases, judges who racist and full of hatred I mean
You ain't never seen the shit that I seen

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  Diamonds   Made In Black America   "Between Me, You and Liberation"   1 2 Many   1 2 Many   1 2 Many...   1-9-9-9   1, 2 Many   7 Deadly Sins   8 Minutes To Sunrise   A Bigger Picture Called Free   A Dream   A Film Called   A Film Called (Pimp)   A Penny For My Thoughts   A Song for Assata   ABFF (Freestyle)   Acapella   Act Too.. The Love Of My Life   All Night Long   Angel   Annoucement   Announcement   Announcement (Sped Up)   Announcement [Sped Up]   Another Wasted Nite With...   Any Given Sunday   Aquarius   Aquarius (Clean)   Baby Don't Think About It   Baby I'm Selfish   Baby I'm Selfish   Back Home   Be   Be (Intro)   Be (Intro)   Be (intro) - (with The Last Poets)   Be [Intro]   Believe   Between Me, You & Liberation   Between Me, You & Liberation"(feat. Cee-Lo   Between Me, You & Liberation   Between Me, You and Liberation   Black America Again   Black America Again (Remix)   Black Maybe   Blak Majik   Blows To The Temple   Blue Skies   Blue Sky   Blue Sky (Single)   Book Of Life   Break My Heart   Breaker 1/9   Breaker 1\/9   Can-i-bust?   Car Horn   Celebrate   Changes   Charms Alarm   Chatper 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)   Chi City   Chi-city   Cloth   Cold Blooded   Coldblooded   Come Close   Come Close [Edited Album Version]   Come Close Remix   Come Close To Me   Come Close"(feat. Mary J. Blige   Common War Produced by No I.D   Communism   Corner   Corners   Crack Music   Diamonds   Don't Come My Way   Dooinit   Drivin' Me Wild   Driving Me Wild   E=MC2   Electric Wire Hustler Flower   Electric Wire Hustler Flower - Featuring Sonny Of ...   Electric Wire Hustler Flower"(feat. Sonny (P.O.D.)   Everywhere   Faithful   Faithful   Faithful   Ferris Wheel   Food For Funk   Food, The - (live)   Forever Begins   Forever Black America Again   Funky for You   G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)   Geto Heaven Part Two   Geto Heaven, Pt. 2   Gettin' Down At The Amphitheater   Ghetto Dreams   Ghetto Heaven Part Two   Ghetto Purgatory   Ghetto Show   Gladiator   Go!   Gold   Heat   Heaven Somewhere   Heidi Hoe   High Expectations   Home   Hungry   Hurricane   Hustle Harder   I Am Music   I Got Right Ta - Featuring Pharrell Williams   I Got a Right Ta   I Have A Dream   I Used to Love H. E. R.   I Used To Love H.E.R.   I Used To Love H.E.R. [Instrumental]   I Want You   I've Been Thinking   In My Own World   In My Own World (Check The Method)   Inhale   Inhale   Interlude   Introspective   Invocation   It's Your World   It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)   It's Your World (Part 1 & 2)   It's Your World (part 1&2)   Jesus Walks [Remix]   Jimi Was a Rock Star   Joy And Peace   Just in the Nick of Rhyme   Kingdom   Kingdom (feat. Vince Staples)   Kingdom Remix   Let's Move   Letter To The Free   Like They Used to Say   Love Is   Love Is...   Love Star (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & PJ)   Lovestar   Lovin' I Lost   Made In Black America   Maintaining   Make My Day   Making A Name For Ourselves   Misunderstood   My City   My Way Home   Nag Champa   Nag Champa (Afrodesiac For The World)   Nag Champa (Afrodisiac for the World)   New Wave   New Wave"(feat. Laetitia Sadier   Nirvana Is In The Blunt   No Fear   No Sell Out   Nobody's Smiling   Nuthin' To Do   One Day It'll All Make Sense   One-Nine-Nine-Nine   Orange Pineapple Juice   Out On Bond   Payback Is a Grandmother   Pitchin' Pennies   Play Your Cards Right   Pop's Belief   Pop's Rap   Pop's Rap Iii   Pop's Rap Part 2   Pops Belief   Pops Rap III... All My Children   Punch Drunk Love   Puppy Chow   Pyramids   Raw   Raw (How You Like It)   Real   Real Nigga Quotes   Real People   Red Wine   Remaning Me Of (Sef)   Reminding Me   Reminding Me (Of Sef)   Requiem For A Love   Resurrection   Resurrection '95   Resurrection [DVD]   Resurrection [Instrumental]   Resurrection [Large Professor Remix Instrumental] ...   Retrospect For Life   Retrospect for Life [Album Version]   Rewind That   Sex 4 Suga   Sex 4 Sugar   So Cool   So Far to Go   So Sweet   Soul By The Pound   Soul Power   Southside   Southside [Edited Album Version]   Speak My Piece   Star *69 (ps with Love)   Start The Show   Stay Good   Stay Schemin (Remix)   Stolen Moments Part I   Stolen Moments Pt. 1   Stolen Moments Pt. 2   Stolen Moments Pt. I   Stolen Moments Pt. II   Stolen Moments Pt. III   Strange Fruit   Sum Shit I Wrote   Sun God   Sweet   Take It Ez   Tekzilla   Testify   The 6th Sense   The Believer   The Bitch In Yoo   The Bitch in You   The Corner   The Corner [Last Poet Reprise]   The Corners   The Day Women Took Over   The Dreamer   The Food   The Food (Live)   The Food [Live]   The Food [Live]   The Game   The Hustle   The Hustle (Clean)   The Ladder   The Light   The Light [for U] [remix]   The Myth   The Next Chapter   The People   The People [Instrumental]   The People [LP Version]   The People [Radio Edit]   The Questions   The Remedy   The Sixth Sense   Thelonious   Thelonius   They Say   They Say...   Thisisme   Time Travelin'   Time Travelin' (A Tribute to Fela)   Time Traveling   Time Traveling (A Tribute To Fela)   Time Travellin' (reprise)   To Find Mecca Is Within   Tricks Up My Sleeve   Trouble In The Water   Two Scoops of Raisins   U Still Got It (Interlude)   U Still Got It (Interlude) [Enhanced Stereo][Multi...   U, Black Maybe   Unfamiliar   Universal Mind Control   Universal Mind Control (UMC)   Universal Mind Control (UMC) [Instrumental]   Universal Mind Control (UMC) [Instrumental]   Universal Minds Control   War   Watermelon   We Can Do It Now   What A World   Windows   Wmoe   Yelling Away   Young Hearts Run Free

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