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DWAYNE SCOTT: Dwayne Scott for Everywhere News. Citizens welcome greater police presence in an East End Priority neighbourhood. The Mayor honours 41 divison’s Brian East and his anti-gang task force. I’ll have the story at Eleven

[1] DEVIN

My mind a zoo really, think beast ‘gon scare me?
Fear no adversary on the road to everlasting
Witness the life of Devin Francis
Invisible predator, preying mantis, phantom conniving, them

Rival clicks, splash, they city of Atlantis
When it have to spill, i grab steel
More faster, start things clapping, paralyze advances
We run the block, they can’t stand it, and them fuckers, stand still

My orchestration sound twenty-one guns raising
Salute the bandit, hail, his dream stealing regiment
Leave sky-lines blazing, frame scenes, killing ‘em
Devin chalk and yellow tape, dicking down destiny, give a fuck if she hate?

Look, copped in ‘9-4, what you die for
Feds want work, my bullets is time off
The one, never lost, try me
Fight the power, i’m Isley
Find me seven steps ahead, motherfuckers move wisely
Shook up the ground, now my rise tsunami
Ease off me, like you geeked up
D’s creep up, calmly, when I strike, destruct

Nigga what army? in this street shit, devin’s green beret
And Squads I eat up, like Frito lays, ‘till my chips see Cali highway
Ain’t no honour among thieves, just envy
Get me? they getting who?

Monkey see, monkey do
Detect it, so predictable, and still

Hook

Get it all day
Get it all day
Get it all day
I get it all day, day, day, all day

[2] DEVIN

DWAYNE: Will old rivalries boil over? Will this be another summer of the gun? City Council calls a Fall election. I’ll give you the story this evening

Bad boys new toys, they wanna blast the god?
My guns lke Asimov, sniper scientifics, futuristic
Your flesh fiction, split you, missiles feed that kalashnikovs
Banana clip, you slipping, police issue snitch, edition
Shells have your triple fat, fishnet
Catch it, no beef, we hold heat, and smoking, body arsonists
My squad build up, like rastafarians. milk, kilm
Flip on cowards quick, watching, baby ballers, get, they crib lit up

They mamas end up, crying on shoulders
Rock strollers, hearts cold as ice bolders:
Twist caps, we rollers, eagle followed by the vulture
Sonny, dark soldier, switching, see? them shooters: lights out

Money showing, ‘Bid, the sickest nigga out the click
Dump clicks, dump ‘till, strap go “click”
So garbage, ipsos counting as bodies is dropping
Cause the city want this strip, now you pussies try pop us

Simple preparation for situation like these:
I squeeze, and you cats siamese
Which persona? head shots, turn two-faced niggas organ donor
Big shit give the throne up. your eye’s lid sewn up

Can’t see me triple the quota? sipping corona
Sho ‘nuff, crown me king, that strap click, click, click
Sounding freedom, spill your dreams, feed my unborn seed
Save ‘em, ‘cause when night fall, believe it, hammers will too

In my mind, see them, snitch niggas is stitches in time
Out my mind? nine reasons we don’t need ‘em
And still
Hook

DWAYNE: last night the ave saw two shootings. assault rifle casings were found on scene. can the neighbourhood can ever return to its peaceful future? we’ll ask community activist dr. lagorra esui on breakfast news

[3] DEVIN

I sit alone in my five cornered room, staring at corners
Seeing scenes in candle light, a vandal’s knife, these lines I write
So nauseous, bloody hands, scratch page
Luminati slaves, whisper to theyselves, ‘is he insane’?

Got nuilty: it’s witching hour, vision buries these
Dark maps, my treasure chests: reality’s conspiracy
Pray for me. see my brothers worship power
Night’s they chapel, lit reactions supernatural

Attack you, to ask ‘who, done it’? lonely travels
Seen lost kids, grow heartless, hatred’s where heart is
Home, monsters starve us, ghetto synopsis:
Big brother, had ups, then broke his knee up, who want it?

Next play father, defeated, enemies up in that coffins
Watched sparks extinguish, they fire still haunt me
Raised by these streets and everywhere that wars be
Saw it then, saw it now, nah nigga ain’t never saw-re

Capital-lies, on truth hurt, pain cannibalized in verse
Re-verse years, tracks of tears, never quench my thirst
Used to hang, she know my story, her memory like a noose
This piece grace my neck, a promise to set me loose

Waiting. the game, speed up, robberies and re-ups
In the screwface capital, pussies get beat-up
Got down, like heat buss, on ‘ashes to dust’
Duppy conquerors: spooks in masks of imposter

Have my fam move food like monsanto
Fuck handouts, my dogs get a leg up, pissing
Things considered, I know you can’t, won’t, get it
Get it? repetition:

Every path got ears and sky tongues
They stutter, so i feel them silent worlds, where tomorrow is from
Time speak in sign language. rhapsody’s infecting madness
Have us going, separate ways, write wretched words, set my world ablaze

Destroy everything that made me, forget back in the day. see?
Yesterday’s a mausoleum, hold on niggas, carpe diem
And still

Hook

DWAYNE: A lower concentration of poverty promises to reduce gun violence. Residents are being relocated to create mixed-income communities. I’ll have this story this noon

DEVIN: Fuck all that shit, we ain’t got no one to blame but ourselves…Go get it, whatever you do go fucking get it...fuck e’body else…fuck e’thing else… that’s shit's yesterday...get off that shit and go get that money…these are the good old days...right now, right fucking now...ain’t nothing like today...word