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You wanna know where I come from?
Look at the cracks in the sidewalk
That's my biography right there
Every scar got a name
Every name got a story
And every story ends the same way out here
But don't end at all

Grew up where the streetlights flicker like they had regrets
Where the corner store was church and the block was all we get
Fourteen summers deep in something nobody could explain
How you love a place that's slowly driving you insane?
We moved like constellations, organized and cold
Every member of the circle had a story to be told

Lil' Marcus used to sketch on every wall he found
Now his name's engraved in granite six feet underground
The jazz in my chest started playing when they took him
Every time I close my eyes, I still hear how the block shook

We were children in a war that never made the news
Just another zip code wrapped in poverty and blues
So I carry every face like a medallion 'round my throat

Every brother that I lost is another line I wrote
This ain't glorifying nothing, this is testimony cold
This is concrete and survival dressed in platinum and soul
We didn't choose the life, the life came knocking first
Took the best of everything and left us with the worst
But we rose through all that fire with our dignity intact
Once you understand the streets, ain't no going back

We ride for every name on that wall
We stand for every brother who falls
This gang ain't just a gang, it's a family, it's a call
When the system turned its back, we
Built something from nothing at all
We ride through every midnight and the dawn
We sing for every soldier who is gone
The jazz is in our bloodline and our grief in our bone
West Coast to the casket, we were never truly alone

See, the hierarchy was simple
Loyalty above the rest
And put your brothers before comfort
Put your heart before your chest
We had generals at seventeen
With wisdom carved in scars
Reading the situations better than they ever read their bars
D-Loc used to cook for every hungry soul on Third
Never asked for nothing back, never spoke a needless word

Quiet type of dangerous, the kind that sees it all
The kind the streets devour first when kingdoms start to fall
We held territory not for rival, for survival
Every block we watched was somebody's child's arrival
Kept the predators away from those where mothers raised they sons
In a world that gave us nothing but the concrete and the guns
So don't reduce us to an headline or a statistics page
We were architects of order in the middle of the rage
Built a code when there was nothing out of silence, blood, and name
And we lived inside that covenant like gods, like a flame

We didn't choose the South, the South chose us young
Before we had the vocabulary to explain what we'd become
But we held each other standing when the earthquakes hit the soul
That's a bond no court, no jury, no indictment can control

We ride for every name on that wall
We stand for every brother who falls
This gang ain't just a gang, it's a family, it's a call
When the system turned its back, we
Built something from nothing at all
We ride through every midnight and the dawn
We sing for every soldier who is gone
The jazz is in our bloodline and our grief in our bone
West Coast to the casket, we were never truly alone

I been sitting with this weight so long
I almost mistook the burden for a song

When music is the only way to breathe
When the streets don't give your people room to breathe
These hands have held things I ain't proud of in the light
But these same hands fed my people through the night
I ain't asking for a pardon or a benediction, nah
Just a moment of respect for what we built in the dark

For every mother at her window every night
For every daughter who became a flower's fight
For every young king who got sentenced to a zip code
This one's for the ones who never made it down the road

Now I'm older
And the fire burns a different kind of way
Not the rage that used to guide me
Through the violence of the day

Now I'm older and the fire burns a different kind of way
Now I'm older and the fire burns
Now I'm older and the fire
Now I'm older and the fire
Now I'm older and the fire

Now I'm older and the fire
Now I'm older and the fire
Now I'm older and the fire
But when you hear this melody
When you hear this melody
So when you hear this melody

Now I know where I come from
Yeah, now I'm older
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now I'm older and the fire
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You wanna know where I come from?