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[title] => Making a Difference
[time] => 2008-03-22 18:30:57
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[bodytext] => There is an infestation running a muck throughout my people What started as a ripple is now a tidal wave What stared as a germ is now a flesh eating malicious disease Spading more quickly and easier then the common cold And its being sold In every rap video And each issue of vibe magazine and double XL Man got to weight thats step one in being a man in this hood that how you show that you can stand in this hood thats how you become a kingpin around these hoods young black men Being led up to no good pushing powder to the lady who changed your diapers before you could stand Selling Meth to the man who used to take you fishing when you were just a little man Man take a look at your neighborhood we used to take pride in this ghetto Now my grandma can't ride through this ghetto We used to talk about how we would over come and give back to this ghetto Never let another brotha fall between the cracks in this ghetto Now your feeding the beast that devours this ghetto Look at all these abandon buildings potentially places where the children can go and laugh within Without being tormented by the outside world And you hustling But see the property value plummets when the streets are laced with methamphetamines And the playgrounds are littered with needles being seen parents can't even let there kids walk the streets in peace All because you and some dude two streets over got beef You don't run these streets this is 2nd ave its not Daquawn St or, Terrence Blvd or Teyshawn Ct no its non of the sort The same cars you see going up and down theses streets Will be here tomorrow And the day after that And the day after that So you modest well get over that You want to do something constructive How about you go get a job Better yet go get a contracting degree And return to the place where they call us slobs Build something that your daughter and you son can hold on to Be a role model for those that have no one to look up to Then you can roll through the ghetto with your head held high Be a real man instead of one of these mock up men These Locked up men This revolving door of illeimate men We need to stop the trend And it can only end When we decide that we'll no longer be pawns to sin you'll see it happen-in It will be a contagious reaction then redefine what hood is And make it safe again Make it a place where folks anit ashame they been Where little Charles and Tiffany Can say yea I'm from the hood Finish high school went to college And now I'm doing good no more my hood on the news for two shootings this week From now on its like Can you believe the Mayor came from these Streets [comments] => 2 [counter] => 273 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Allidoiswrite82 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 7 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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