Nipsey Hussle Freestyle lyrics - Jay-Z

Gentrify your own hood before these people do it

Claim eminent domain and have your people moving

That's a small glimpse into what Nipsey was doing

For anybody that's still confused as to what he was doing

The neighborhood is designed to keep us trapped

They red-line us, so property declines if you live by blacks

They depress the asset and take the property back

It's a ruthless but a genius plan in fact

So now we're fighting over scraps

Crabs in a barrel, but crabs don't belong in the barrel and they ain't never tell us that

So in the barrel, we gonna act like we act

We can easily get out the barrel if we stand on each other's back

Whoever gets on top, as long as they stay attached

They're gonna pull everybody out – I was doing just that

I told Neighborhood Nipsey stay close

There's a 100 million dollars on your schedule, lay low

Tell your team to be on point in the places that they go

I never dreamed that he get killed in the place that he called home

How we gonna get in power if we kill the source?

Y'all like to run off on the plug, so of course

That ain't lit, that's a means to an end

Me and my team was playing the plug ahead of plan

Sometimes we was only making a $1000 a joint

That ain't no money, but that ain't main point

So those 92 bricks was only 92 thou

So y'all can close your mouth, it ain't nothing for y'all to wild (wow)

But it is something to study

We was chasing our goals, not chasing money

Niggas chasing hoes, we find that funny

I pull up in the Rolls, that hoe gon' want me

But I don't want no hoe, I want a wife

Somebody to bounce these ideas off at night

I be going to sleep hoping Nip visit me

That young king had a lot of jewels to split with me

And we ain't gotta leave the hood physically

But we gotta leave that shit mentally

Some how, some way

We gonna make it out the hood some day