Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
Purchasable with gift card
name your price
about
Amidst the rapidly changing San Francisco, the indigenous families of the "Sco" are relentlessly being forced out of the city they love. "Being forced out" ranges from a variety of different tactics: whether it be through being priced out of the neighborhoods they have forever called their homes (gentrification) or through more brutal violent means, such as the history of police brutality on our black and brown communities of color. This song aims to raise the names of Alex Nieto, Oscar Grant and Mario Woods, all victims to police violence here in the Bay Area in the last decade. It also brings to attention that these people are among a ever rising list of names, killed of by this same violent system. We can either choose to remain complicit to the way things have been or take our place on the right side of history. There is no one way to get involved, get in where you fit in.
For a start educate yourselves on the stories of these particular people/hashtags: #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticefForBreonnaTaylor #SayTheirNames #BlackLivesMatter
lyrics
Amidst a city that remains
A city that has changed
Home along the riles
Or home along the range
A city that encapsulates
A bullet that reverberates
Bouncing off the body of the homie
On his lunch break
Shot by local officers
No evidence to warrant this
No guns, affiliations
And still they go to war with us
They killed the homie Alex,
They killed the homie Oscar
They killed another brotha
Up on Amazon and Crocker
And Mario was slain
While we caught it on the MUNI
Man that shit was overkill
Hella shooters on the duty
And what’s the job exactly?
To serve and protect?
When these black and brown families
Gotta watch they fuckin neck?
And yet the city screams progress..
And Development..
Forgot the tents under the bridge
Housing crisis is irrelevant
And yet you go on Zillow
To find a a place be at...
A place to settle down
In the Bay to raise yo kids at
You wanna be in places
In the hoods that you grew up in
Nostalgic like the 80’s
While you gripping Teddy Ruxbin
But you return...
To find your hood is overran with
Yuppie, techie mutha fuckas
Google buses, bandwith
People staking land like
Christopher Columbus
Manifest destiny
With Crosses and muskets
Million dollar homes
With no million dollar jobs
Its simple mathamatics
The indigenous is robbed
The native San Francisco
To us its known as Frisco
Shady politicians,
Agenda of that flip mode
But my homies hold it down…
My Kasamas and affiliates
Teachers holding down the classroom
While uplifting it
The mental of the youth…
We educate to liberate
We must draw a line,
Comunidad or Real estate?!
We must draw a line,
Whether profit or people
No justice no peace
Till that balance is equal
credits
released June 13, 2020
Beat: "Tale of Two Cities" by 9th Wonder
Sample: excerpts from Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019
