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Killa Season
4,000 soldiers on my mind
so 4,000 soldiers is how i start this rhyme
very sublime like lemon lime
how the value of life diminished
my people prematurely pass for peace
president say we ain't finished
too much pride to quit now
people who once took a stand
now choose to sit down
so i jump up off the porch
begging to carry the torch
two lighters in my palms
i hold fire in my pockets
dislocated from my folks
poems place me back in socket
so i guess i need these joints
lyrics serve as ligaments holding my world together
some cats be using big words just to prove how clever
but that's exactly how the umbilical gets severed
i mean, that's how artists get cut off from what originally gave them life
most be lying in the booth, i birth truth through mics
like i'm worried about the economy
and the sub-prime lending crisis
while we argue on the train
debating on who the nicest
slices of the american pie rarely served in my community
american dream rarely seen
no queens
just Billie Jeans
who birth unclaimed sons
who learn from tv screens
making Plies a role model
makes me wanna get a gun
so i can ride out for my folks
put a hole in his lungs
and shout power to the people
like Huey and his boys
and i'll call it self defense
my folks were being destroyed
and who cares
if i kill some rapper for his rhymes
when my country kills without reason
4,000 soldiers on my mind.
-Christopher K.P. Brown
*Killa Season is featured on The Straight, No Chaser Mixtape.