Stranger In My Home Feat. Gift Of Gab
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Yeah, aye
I'm a stranger in the home I own
Been living here twenty long years with my fam like a Corleone
But where did everybody go that I used to know?
I moved in back in '84 and we was very po'
We wasn't even selling gold weight
Just moving in to the gold state
I reminisce about the closed gate
That seemed to wrap around the music that we made
It had a ghetto sound
Most cats were black or brown in urban areas
It's so infectious that it spread out like malaria
New York to Cali back to the dirty dirty
We used to be sixteen but now we pushing thirty
I seen the change early, I pulled a Jheri curlie
On out to dready, but the next phase we wasn't ready
It seemed to lighten as the years got longer
From black to white, but the sales got stronger
We started going platinum, it was bound to happen
We went pop, sleeping in beds of silk and satin
When I woke up from my sleep, pronounced
Saw the whole scene had changed, all my folks had bounced
But I ain't leaving 'cause I own this block
Pay mortgage off steady with my bonds and stocks
I'll be buying property 'til I own the block
I love hip hop, it's all I got
There's a stranger in my home and he's watching
There's a stranger in my home and he's watching
Yeah, yeah
There's a stranger in my home, my house has been invaded
Went out for just a second, came back, it ain't the same as it was
At times I felt could leave the door unlocked
And let all come and go as they please but no one that
Was there when I had left, was there when I returned
New faces, replications of styles that they have learned
Like Greeks had did Egyptians, complex and simplified
I suddenly realized my crib's been gentrified
And if people don't know then how could people come
Big money neglect the hood, suburban promotion
From urban emotion to corporation
Who really don't have a clue where they got they taste from
There's a stranger in my home and my peoples is gone
And I'm feeling like the outsiders standing alone
There's a stranger in here but the strangest thing to see
Is the way it's looking right now, the stranger is me
There's a stranger in my home and he's watching
There's a stranger in my home and he's watching
Yeah, yeah, aye
There's a stranger in my home, infiltrating my throne
Start messing with my crib, won't leave me alone
There's a stranger, it's danger, they call it pop culture
When you feeling hot, when you not she's a vulture
You know that we supposed to protect and respect
But it's hard to stay righteous when you needing a check
There's a stranger in my midst, now I'm balling my fists
I never dreamed it would come to this
There is so much they miss so they're following me everywhere I go
I don't know what to do but I got to stay true
There's a stranger in my home
There's a stranger in my home and he's watching
There's a stranger in my home and he's watching
There's a stranger