Mercedes Benz stadium eating away at the horizon
I hate that big ass ugly piece of shit
Pipes exhausting smoke particles as
Cars drive past
Engines cranking bodies modest, or flashy, loud, as bright lights and booming bases drown out the resistance of the unhoused
Gentrification left behind the Ghosts
of Black neighborhoods bulldozed over the decades of Black face in leadership
Wakanda empty fists of solidarity painted over a Black mecca
That aint lookin so Black
The Jacksoning of Atlanta
Washing whiter
While it be the model city for the petit bourgeois
Wealth gap growing wider than our inner states
Homeless encampments be the city perimeter
Til they stomped over by a gang of pigs -a relocation notice
As if their existence is the problem
Black overseers running the streets
Cries for investment in the community
Answered by closing of a major hospital
Cries to defund the police
Answered by investment in a 90 million and 85 acre urban warfare facility for pigs: #StopCopCity
Protest and community resistance
Answered by police murdering a forest defender
Our ops private investors be your favorite midnight snack (Waffle House, chick- fil-la)
Be the electricity coursing up ya block
The depot by your home
The tax pipeline funneled from our streets be funding the guns that murk us
Death lurking in the doorstep
So is it really crazy to call capitalism mass suicide
Cause building a mock city to practice warfare against civilians
Is their preferred investment rather than community care
Cries for affordable housing
Answered by subsidizing cop housing in a remaining Black neighborhood (#NoCopHousing)
Guess gentrification wasn’t moving fast enough
Amerikkka will only practice forms of socialism for warfare
While murder still happens next door
While our Black babies still harassed in school, outta school
On the block, in the corner stores,
Kicked outta malls and skating rinks
Blackness pushed to the outskirts of society, I mean city
Yet we still stomp loudly proudly
Only for Blackness to pour out our souls and influence every piece of energy
Cause Black culture is being exploited
We be the seasoning savored in your favorite meal
Our Light flooding every horizon yet our streets be the darkest
Souls touch in between our laughs on the porch
Dispersing sounds of liberation