Chocolate

In the summer when the youth sling guns...
I was in the house...
Duck whenever Liu Kang swung
That's mortal kombat
My brother used to use Shang Tsung
Kids outside, cussing with a juice-stained Tongue
Chain rockin'. That money in his pockets for bail
You see, I was a prophet. I could see who was headed to jail
Like Sunday morning
Preacher sweating. Loving to yell
Who's heading to hell. I always knew love would prevail
Paul Harris was a drunk. Never looked at him lesser
His life was a lesson. Respect him. Still called him professor
As he stumbled through the streets. Dusty, talking to himself
Health declining. A reminder. Life swings like a belt
And leaves welts. Crack was a disease. Need help
We pointed and laughed. Not caring how those crackheads felt
He was looking for his momma. So I said imma help
In one summer I saw the weight of a black momma melt
Just like chocolate

We're boxed in. Chocolate boys
Dark hands, a glock in
Prison is a box full men chocolate
Chocolate drops every time a Glock spits
Chocolate
Chocolate girls with Doctorates
Suits and ties, businessmen with dark skin
Not all of us play the block or park bench
Some of us live dark rich and Chocolate

In the hood, they say by 18 that would die
Cut up franks and pork'n beans
My momma tried
This is for the slaves who road the waves on Amistad
And those who spend days in a cage for homicides
God forgives
They say life is short so imma live. I'm alive
No time to pretend or dramatize
Father God
Blessed me with a Benz or double R, imma drive
And if it's a Lear then I don't care, imma fly
God showed her some things she wouldn't see before she died
She was 73, talking to me at 25
She said, "grace and mercy gonna follow you all of your days but
Don't forget God and acknowledge in all your ways
And soon as you're great you know the devil sends the hate
But no weapons formed will cause you harm or penetrate
07 July, my father God took the prophet
Before Grandma died she told me to save the chocolate