- America Loves Gangsters
{
-- These days they wanna be criminals more than they wanna commit crime...
-- Well, that's... that's not just crime, that's... that's the way the world...
}
[Hook: Deacon]
There's something about a vandal's lust
The lifestyles of the scandalous
- Appreciation
[Chorus]
Hold on, cause you'll never miss your own
Until that water's gone, it's wrong, it's wrong, so hold on
Hold on, cause you'll never miss your own
Until that water's gone, it's wrong, be strong and hold on
[Cashmere the Pro]:
It was morning she was brisk with her words
- Brain Cell
[Verse 1: Deacon]
You was manifested in an egg, developed in a womb
Born out of a moon belly, first day of doom
Crying out like you wanna be put back in there
Maybe later in an incubator for more care
Alone, get to your home and your cribs set
Put behind bars and you ain't even lived yet
On through the playpens, when will this fate end?
- Dance for me
[Chorus: Sample]
Dance for me, someone said
Emily, shakes their head
Lonely, gracefully
Emily begins
[Verse 1: Deacon]
She was a late bloomer, from Penny to Janet in a blink
- Die For You
[Chorus:]
What do you do if there comes a day when I lose my way?
What will you do?
Oh I would stand by you? (Word?)
Pray for you (Oh yeah?)
If it would help I'd even die for you
[Verse 1:]
- Dirty Acres
[Verse 1: Deacon]
Look, Ice Cube said Laugh Now, Cry Later
It's sad to see us living like that till pine laid up
Not straight up about death or missteps
No regrets, just weed, sex, worldly patterns
I miss Vatos and Bless, I miss my sister
The other day my nigga was stabbed to death
I laughed with Step bout holy scripture
- Embers
[Chorus]
Imagine the burning embers
They glow below and above
Your sins you won’t remember
And all you’ll find there is love
[Verse 1]
- Enemies With Benefits f. Tonedeff
[HOOK - KNO]
She sits in bed with her halo crooked
She says she's never been in love before
She takes time to define what we'll never get
We're turning into enemies with benefits
Enemies with benefits
[V1 - NATTI]
- Family Ties
Dear Dad,
Yeah it's me, surprised that I'm writin'?
Well not really, I'm sittin' at my computer just typin'
Heard you were sick
Would have found out last week had I called
But to be honest
I don't feel the least bad at all
Yeah I know that sounds fucked up but you made me like that
- Georgia
Georgia, The clay is runnin red
From the blood that done been shed down in
Gergia, Now we weepin to the sound
From the color of the ground down in
Georgia, My state my home
For 17 years learned right from wrong
Cried saline tears when I write these poems
As I made these fears give flight to song
- get ignorant
You try to get success directly
But there is one to destroy us
Sometimes the way is out of ?
Perhaps you may get ignorant
[Verse 1]
Do I gotta get ignorant show my pigment on the job?
- Hellfire
I am the god of hellfire and I bring you (x2)
[Hook]
"Fire!" Hellfire can't scorch me (x4)
I'll see you burn
[Verse 1: Natti]
"Fire!" Not obtained by propane or lighter
- K.K.K.Y.
[Natti]
Don't worry about this dirty south til its mud floods ya front stoop
Aces and acres of haters growing out the same root
That hit you quicker than poverty in two major arteries
Havin you movin and softshoe-in like who made you property
[Deacon]
Black face and sambos, tied for last place
- Mic Like A Memory
[chorus]x2
I sign his space's with time existant blare
I hold the mic like a memory
[Deacon the Villan]
There was a time when I couldnt find energy
The only person that was filln' me was Mrs. Hennesey
Ahh,Its like life was pinnin' me down
- Nothing to Give
Been down. Been down.
Late at night, what's gone wrong?
Been down. Been down
Late at night the bad don't seem so wrong
[Hook]
When night falls and all lights off
You'll get robbed where I live
- Strange Universe f. Del The Funky Homosapien
Del The Funky Homosapien:
Yo, jumped out the starship
Hittin Illuminati
Hi-fivin' Zentradi
Karate chopping martians
Sparks in the brain chamber
Way braver
- Summer's Gone
Its bout that time when niggas start sweatin like slavery
Harsh heat make looking down the street all wavery
Ladies that bundle up in winter unwrap and wave at me
Wanna have it made in the shade beneath the canuhpee
Canopy, can it be beautiful? the season
Summer under investigation give niggas reasons
To shorten up they fuse, look violent on the news
More families to sit sobbin silently on the pews
- Sunrise-Sunset
[Deacon the Villain]
Life is unusually beautiful
But sometimes I feel so unsuitable and it drowns out what's musical
And then I just find myself drinkin' and thinkin'
Making no turns yet my signal is blinkin'
Feeling bad cause no judge is giving me 10
Breaking rules to get up out of the deep end
On the verge of having trouble begin