Murder Of A Teenage Life - Album Version (Edited)

[00:02.31] Man, what was the young blood name? Funk Crush
[00:08.19] Young blood just hungry
[00:12.48] It's no glamour, it's no glory
[00:17.71] It's no joke no game
[00:21.34] It's murder everyday, murder (Boogeyman)
[00:25.70] (They shot the boy!)
[00:27.63] The murder of a teenage life
[00:29.82] Fire from the cold steel
[00:31.35] The heat from the brights
[00:33.02] The temperature of flesh and the shortness of breath
[00:35.90] The murder of a teenage threat
[00:38.77] The aroma of sinsemillion dollar superstar
[00:42.16] Skama like a new cocaine tobacco leaf
[00:45.13] Ecstatic tabernists fire water and freaks
[00:47.96] The murder of a teenage chief
[00:50.88] My easy speaking is as easy as it seems to be
[00:53.89] Hungry belly jamma busts off easily
[00:57.05] Balloon bang pop
[00:58.53] Hot as a bang spot in Bangkok
[01:00.58] Colder than a pimp glock
[01:01.98] Aim shot, the frame drops
[01:03.56] Pressure pushed him to the earth like a rain drop
[01:06.49] Take not life in vein
[01:08.24] And how the preacher was saying
[01:09.97] Remember anyway they laid him in a stray box
[01:12.67] Dark suit and gray socks
[01:14.79] The neighborhood is all distraught
[01:16.69] Candles lit the stoop at the park
[01:18.86] Where the family and students are
[01:21.30] Confused, in awe
[01:22.39] They weep into each others arms it's murder!
[01:24.81] New absence in a mothers arms
[01:27.27] Even the warmth from the mother's arms
[01:29.50] Could not keep her son from harm
[01:31.49] From standing where the gun was drawn
[01:33.41] Over come, done and done, he's gone
[01:35.72] Murder!
[01:36.70] Shrill shell like a bell that rung
[01:39.24] The blood bursts, body temperature fell and plunged
[01:42.52] And in the time it took the medics to come
[01:44.54] The breath eased out of his lungs
[01:47.16] And his soul eased out of the slums
[01:49.12] And the voice eased out of the drums
[01:51.37] The sirens through their ears, they sung
[01:53.59] Murder!
[01:54.81] Telephone wire, sneakers hung
[01:57.60] Murder!
[01:58.26] For the black and young
[02:00.66] Murder!
[02:01.31] And the aves they from
[02:03.00] I am from the block the president did not campaign on
[02:07.02] Where the dollar that the working poor slave for is made on
[02:10.13] Where hustlers stretch to yay long
[02:12.13] And hustle hard for an outpost to trade on
[02:14.62] Flip it over and make more
[02:16.33] Where the blocks are yellow taped off
[02:19.18] Young bloods is trained off for obese to gray zone
[02:22.31] Where the pressure just stay on
[02:23.87] But the lights and the heat don't
[02:25.29] The place where you witness the true power of street folks
[02:28.51] And that's where I'm coming from people
[02:31.27] High post, low key
[02:32.81] Eighth, OZ, and kilo
[02:34.49] Law man, dope man, adversary, amigo
[02:37.39] Preacher man, pimp hand, both folding their c-notes
[02:40.56] A black fist clutching deliverance for the people
[02:43.45] Young hand reach out, strong hand reach in
[02:46.45] Chop the devil's hand to make the fucker stop reaching
[02:49.23] Ghetto people know when the voice of true speaking
[02:52.18] M-Def, and for real hold still nigga seein'
[02:55.12] I ain't got to say please, just believe it
[02:58.26] The unerasable the black ink fact
[03:01.06] Y'all fuckers know exactly how to act get back
[03:04.24] Forever black (forever black) never wack (never that)
[03:07.80] From the K (Killa K) that's that (that's that)
[03:10.88] So you can kill all the yap, murder
[03:16.66] They shot the boy
[03:18.52] They shot the boy
[03:19.85] They shot the boy
[03:21.36] They kill 'em all