00:04Yo, they glorify the block, but the game's rigged from the top
00:116-7 flow, but the reaper's on the clock
00:17This ain't just street, it's a system designed to lock
00:41They post the vids, guns out, ops in the sight
00:45Dance trends blow up, kids repeating every night
00:486-7 drill from the ends where the bodies drop
00:51But behind the mask, it's the elite who never stop
00:55They push the image, drugs, murder, gang, life supreme
00:59Independent prisons booming, government funding the dream
01:02Per head, per bed, investors cashing in clean
01:06While rappers sign deals, but they souls in between
01:10One wrong move, drop off, now shots to the chest
01:13Like the legends before, put the rest with no rest
01:17They say it's the culture, the struggle, the pain
01:19But the industry's laughing, profiting off the chain
01:24Dance with darkness, the beat got you trapped
01:28Guns clap, bodies drop, but the elite adapt
01:31Street lights sold as gold, but it's prison promised me
01:35Rappers get rich quick, then the system claps back
01:39Shot nine-time spirit gone, fame in the grave
01:42They manipulate the wave from the cradle to the cage
01:46Truth in the rhythm, feel the evil in the game
01:49Wake up from the darkness before you scream the same
01:53They built the hood with the work, then glorify the war
01:55Wreck a label, sign you, put the devil at your door
01:57I quote, symbol slashing, reaching rules in the booth
01:59Mark the most, hide and wonder why death come for you
02:00Six, sevens out, nine shots, left leaking on the block
02:03Pattern repeating, but they call it keeping it real talk
02:04Drop-by's orchestrated fuse, never die down
02:06While execs count millions from the streams pouring out
02:08Prison industrial, beds filled with young kings
02:11Investors on Wall Street pulling all the strings
02:14Drugs in, gangs up, murder rates climb
02:16They get paid per inmate while your mama cry
02:18Rapper slash the iceberg chain to the machine
02:20Elite laughing, towers living at the dream
02:22It's not random chaos, it's engineered pain
02:27From the label deals to the cell blocks they gain
02:30They sell you the lifestyle
02:32They lock you in the system
02:34Turn brothers against brothers
02:39That's the real division
02:41Six, seven shadows
02:45The truth
02:46They hide in the trap
02:47Trap, trap, trap, trap, trap, trap
02:50Six, seven, trend
02:51Got the world doing the move
02:52But the spirit behind it got demons on the loose
02:54They push the evil, normalize the kill
02:55Why do you lease it back and stack another meal
02:57Government contracts
02:58Private prisons paid
02:59Rappers turning for them
03:00It's an independent grave
03:00Shot nine times like the ones who came before
03:02Wanted in the music
03:03But y'all beg for more
03:04Break the cycle
03:05See the strings on the puppet
03:06Rappers voice to the streets
03:07Now it's corrupted
03:08From the block to the board
03:09From the games the same
03:10Dance for darkness
03:10But you never win the game
03:11The beat's calling
03:13But the truth is harder
03:15Six, seven shadows
03:16Don't become another martyr
03:19Believe and manipulate
03:20Prisons overflow
03:22Real powers in the light
03:23Let the real things know
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