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Gentrified

from INNENSTADT by Neak

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Neak Verse 1:

I was raised up, citizen second class the environment, portrays us, lower this blackened body is dying when, it never lived, knowingly, flower seeds that sunflower, blowing these, playing with ease, broken corners, we blinded by all it breeds, survival on the line, not a moment it will recede, a simple realization influenced by what is seen, appointed leaders pushing the product, you see em flourish, and flourishing get you freed, but la La La Lord what’s going on beyond the skyscrapers, what kind of world is beyond my neighborhood, will it break us, like this, it must be something special, I heard stories of freedom that go beyond the ghetto, heard stories like no lack of wealth, first world impression felt, third world, I grew in, the fire to the feet I dealt, with it, huh I see this life ain’t like a paradise, translation more of life is roll the dice, errday...trumpets blown errrway, guns levitate, when arms lift, I wouldn’t see this way if I was Hemingway, color, huh, if I ain’t white I’m demonized for being off color, this life we living is in a muthafu.....

Chorus:
Surround by hate yet I love home…
Keep on….1, 2, 1, 2
Surrounded by hate yet I love home…
Keep on….Chicago everywhere (Repeat 2x)

Neak Verse 2:
Huh, Its daily we rarely raise from the ashes, fighting daily seemingly culture is of sorta Cassius, youngins lost, money God, pause Ecclesiasticus, we tryna not to be a hashtag, when, system cash in, on us, who else living through a suicide, no one like me, around the other way is all gentrified, the old hood the newer good, rent is sky high, it’s use to be that bullets barreled through a brotherhood, use to seeing teens eight months into motherhood, White flight is back it done landed on hoods, downtown, innercity, worldwide, any, metropolitan space clearly this beyond the penny, use to dream to be a neighbor, yet we moving yearly, into the outer limits of our cities, now how is freedom so beyond the ghetto, we never left, they move back, we pushed out, there’s is no support, Monique stiletto, it’s crazy how it settles in minds, we unsettled, the pressure breaking lives we higher than falsetto, who every thought the world the living in would be the ground that brought the opposite of Othello, in the color oh,

Chorus:
Surround by hate yet I love home…
Keep on….1, 2, 1, 2
Surrounded by hate yet I love home…
Keep on….Chicago everywhere (Repeat 2x)

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from INNENSTADT, released November 20, 2020
Produced by Neak

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If your father performed alongside Funk & Soul legends like James Brown & Sam Cooke, chances are being a product of your environment meant only one thing; following the path of musicianship set directly before him. Chicago-based Hip-Hop rapper and producer Neak draws vivid verbal portraits which find inspiration in the spirit of U.S. black culture and his own deep-seating personal experiences. ... more

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