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For The People

from Community Service by Imago Dei

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Hook
We don’t need another rapper, we need revolutionary/
So fight for ya people,And ride ya people
Live for ya people And die for ya people
Fuck the bull shit grind for ya people/

Verse 1
This for my hustlas, ballas, gangsta, cap pillas/
To survive in the hood you gotta be a killa/
But naw, that’s what they put in our mind/
With these rhymes design to have the blind lead the blind/
So we can’t find time to think/ bout to be extint/
We go decisions to make, cause we living on the brink/
Of death of revolution/ This is propaganda recruiting/
But the hammers cocked back ready for shooting/
We try to move the movement with the pen instead of the rifle/
But we do what we gotta for the people survival/
We can’t depend on the goverenment, you saw Katrina/
This our home land security, fuck a Fema/
Tax ya income but not there we you need em/
Lock up the niggaz and then give Iraqis freedom/
For that petrol to get doe, bush gone let moe/
Young Soldier die for a lie like death row/

Verse 2
This for my Trapstars, dope boys, and niggaz holding weight/
To survive in the hood you gotta know how to bake/
But wait/ and take minute to comtemplate/
Cocaine didn’t arrive in the place by mistake/
Why you think you can makeing cake, cooking crack/
So they can lock ya ass up that’s why they call it the trap/
65% or prisoners are black
So they want you to sell crack and stay strap/
Cause off of that they pockets can stay fat/
They get Free labor off ya back/ Matter of fact/
It’s the new plantation/
No compensation/ no occupation/
When you out on probation/
they want you back in the same situation/
No education and no jobs for ex-convicts
So it’s a new day ya but the same old shit/
So I spit for change fuck the money fuck the fame/
May not sell I mil but I’ll still be critically acclaimed/

Verse 3
This is for my ruff necks, thugs pimps in the club/
To survive in the hood you can’t show no love/
Uh uh, that’s what they want you to believe/and breath/
They bread seeds that lead us to bleed on streets/
We confuse greed for need/ and unleash the heat/
On our brothers man so now he can’t teach his seeds/
It’s killing us but we still just feed the beast/
Live in the fast lane and die from our need for speed/
Together we stand divide we concede defeat/
Self hatred yup, that’s how they mislead my peeps/
Cause I’ll hate you if in your eyes I’m seeing me/
But if we love we can achieve and indeed succeed/
We need to see through the lies leave the truth uncover/
This twisted system got us turned against each other/
Crabs in the barrel we can’t get no further
We rather kill our brother than kill for our brother/

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from Community Service, released July 7, 2007
Written and Produced by Imago Dei

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Imago Dei Atlanta, Georgia

Imago Dei is from Richmond, VA by way of Atlanta Georgia. He is a father, husband, producer, emcee and community activist.

Imago is truly an artist with his music. He paints pictures with rhythm and poetry. Some have called him an emcee's emcee because of his mastery of flow and superb lyricism. He is a man for the people, inspiring his fans to make their world a better place.
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