Tenement Yard

Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard

I & I can't live in a no tenement yard

Jah, penetrate in a tenement yard

Dreadlocks can't live in a tenement yard

I & I can't live in a no tenement yard

Can't I-nitate in a tenement yard



Dreadlocks can't live in privacy

Cause anything him do, old nigga see

Hook: Too much watchy, watchy, watchy

Too much sus, sus, sus, sus, sus, 

Dreadlocks can't smoke them pipe in peace

Too much Babylon & too much beast

 

Dreadlocks can't penetrate the rent-man

Cause all him a do is sell Jah-Jah land



Dreadlocks can't live under constant laws

Too much Babylon means too many laws

 

I was born twenty years ago today

Well at least when I wrote this

Holiday: December tre

Livin' life out a focus

I'm hopin' not to get caught up

With a felonization

But I grew up in a nation not ready for legalization

They tease me with the American dream

But wait it gets deep

The American dream has gotta be a dream

If you believe in it, you sleep

Reality ain't nothin' nice

You gotta do right

Or get caught up by the vice

Three strikes = life

Trife livin', catch me with some weed and now they give

Incarceration

Yes on felony: job application

Got me hatin' these choices struggle minimum wage

Increase a little, not enough for me in this day and

Age

How the hell you 'posed to buy a car to drive to school

The average job today be payin' five and a few

Somethin' in my pocket missin' my one fear

$10, 000 for tuition, that's one year! 

I'm not a teen no mo'; I got my chances to reform

They're tryin' to break me down by puttin' narcs up in

The dorms

People gon do what they gotta do regardless

We don't want the law to baby-sit us, we want it to

Guard us

Guard us from the rapists, kidnappers, and thieves

Not to incarcerate us strictly for havin' weed

My sympathies go out to those set up by a snitch

Dreadlocks forever be poor as long as Babylon's rich



Chico can't smoke them pipe in peace

Too much Babylon and too much beast



Chico can't smoke them bongs outside

Cause Babylon wanna take you and I for a ride