Dirge - Billy Woods, Vordul Mega, Bond

«There's a noise in my head,» last thing my father said

On the side of a road then he was dead

Saw my first body at seven, my friend

They said he went to heaven but I remember his bite twisted

Wheels still stuck in that truck hood, so yeah I don’t sleep that good

Get up and roll a wood, feed the cancer in my chest

Tumors killed half my family, eighties gon' take the rest

Fuck I need a rest, diabetes kill more niggas than bullets

Gotta get, please pull it, my aunt died waiting for a liver

So I’d rather go like my cousin, I sampled the trigger

Somebody murked him, left his body in the street

We ain’t even know he was gon' for a week

Found out auntie had a stroke, now she don’t speak

Without some of my days is bleak

Only thing I wonder is guns or butter

Aneurisms’ll give you a stutter, or maybe some young motherfucker

Is nervous during the jux, they shot Patrice ten times

Ain’t even take the pocket book, cat scans and x-rays

Heatseeking strays, so many done I run out of shit to say

Tears long gone, why we born to catch shots and diseases

I’ll come to the funeral but don’t tell me about Jesus

Freddy got cut into pieces, and don’t lie, the pain never releases

I buried my goddam nieces, wanna come for the nigga

I need an ounce and two packs of Rizla

It’s like I’m losing focus, everyday trying to write down the thoughts

Feeling hopeless, trying to grow with that and then float

Above all the bullshit, that’s why we pull spliffs

Going through this everyday, that’s why we trying to get our pennies up

Everybody trying to get hennied up ‘cause it’s like

We don’t give a what, and I’m just trying to spit for my brothers

Living in struggles, just trying to get on, always trying to rubble

You know when the cut strike an infection

What starts attack the vein as we rush through the coldness

And hold this close to the heart, every time I write

Trying to throw the dart with the aim, you know

How we hold it down flowing, everyday trying to go on

Trying to grow on, trying to flow, never wrong

And we so close to getting there, but everybody still living in fear

And I’m just trying to get through these years

It’s 2000-and-tree, everybody light it up

Everybody get lit up, that’s for the culture

Yeah, zom-blaze, Megallah, how we represent

Looking at the stars, everyday getting high

Why, ‘cause it’s like yo soon gonna die

And I’m trying to understand that in a spiritual way

It’s like I’m closer to God, anyway so

Yo everybody clap your hands

Everybody just clap you hands and understand

Why you live, why you give what we got

Blowing the pot, you know why you give what we got

Blowing a pot, you know why you live

Blowing the pot, yeah hip-hop

That’s what we live for, for real