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Tu B​.​I​.​G.

from Songs from Society's Underbelly by Andy Joseph

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Produced by José M. Feat Walt Chancellor Jr. Dillon M. and DJ Intricut.

lyrics

Two mother loving brothers shot dead in the street
because they had managed to make ends meet.
Why is it that their cases remain incomplete?
For the public safety, I demand honesty.

Growing up in Baltimore, a boy with no dad -
born with lots of natural gifts, he used what he had.
Acting and attracting with charisma he was packing
always eager to impress even with no one backing
him up, he just
trust in his gut.
Hands are shut
into fists to
reclaim a chain that he missed.
A cassino fight would put the last nail in the lid.

Was it a sinister plot that got them both shot?
Just mobsters using leverage to get what they want?

Friends from the start, they took artistry to heart.
Many miles away and never really apart.
It was all about the music, all about the flow,
and when it came to rhyming they knew everything to know.
Then a rift, set adrift as if by a ghost.
And before they knew what happened it was about coast vs coast.
Then a tragedy, a prophet laid to rest.
Soon joined by a brother with four bullets in his chest.

Don't you think that someone has seen
enough so that they can wipe this dirty story clean?
Fourteen years gone by, and nobody knows
who dammed up the poetry and that relaxed flow.

When Brooklyn heard, they went just about neurotic -
breaking out into riots when someone played Hipnotic.
All the people cried as the hearse drove by
because every single one knew who lay inside.
He was friendly y'all, he was the guy to meet.
He probably bagged your groceries at the store down the street.
He did it all for love, that's an OG baller,
top rung of the ladder, now he's ashes for his mama.

Don't let history repeat itself.
Don't let this fate fall on no one else.
I end this song with a final plea -
put the gun down don't make no one bleed.

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from Songs from Society's Underbelly, track released May 15, 2012
Walt Chancellor Jr. - Sax
Dillon M. - Bass
DJ Intricut - Scratch

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Andy Joseph Minneapolis, Minnesota

Just a Madison boy, born and raised. I play the guitar to pass my days. And when the time comes to entertain, I'll leave no inactive cell in your brain. When the word goes through about the work I do, I hope you'll open up and sing along too.

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