This Is Not The City I Recall ft. The DC Restless Natives, Kenilworth Katrina, Kenny Allen, Marswell & Phil Cassidy Lyrics

This is not the city I recall

Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall

Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

My City got Negus Straight up In A Chokehold

Condos In Columbia Heights

Migos are Going Loco

Poisonous Water In the Schools

Worst Than The Congo

Sippin' On That Mambo

Banging Sticks on Bongos

My Cousins Sick Of Roaches

But they never been those Voters

Only Specializing On heaters bitches and toasters

Hanging rap posters

Flipping capone ashes on toasters and coasters

Scratch that

They don't use coasters

These Youngins feel so hopeless

Feel so voiceless

Chokehold on them limiting their choices

Politicians are Posers

Ain't doing what they suppose ta

Homeless families from Deanwood to Saratoga

You can see it with your own eyes not cause I told ya

Carpet Baggers and all these posers

Spring time Might've been colder

But summers here

Don't forget to look over your shoulder

This is not the city I recall

Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall

Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

The city I recall wasn't this at all

Gotta stay alert

You blink a eye and u might miss it all

Wasn't long ago when chocolate city wasn't mixed at all

It done changed so much u come here

Now this shit might piss u off

I just smoke a Jay and reminisce on shit

Stone soul picnic shit

Now niggaz stone cold

They on some different shit

Georgia Avenue day gone like where it went and shit

Soon as the band came on they started killing shit

All the recs got closed down

Fuck all the kids and shit

They give a fuck bout our children too busy building shit

Babies having babies and rappers is getting killed n shit

Cameras in the lights ain't no telling how much the city get

Or gotten in the last couple years

They on they Diddy shit

Day twenty one tickets double but we ain't singing shit

Politicians come in the hood but never bringing shit

But posters and campaign signs

Fuck we Gone do with this?

This is not the city I recall

Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall

Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze