Common - Chi-City lyrics

And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit

I rap with the passion of Christ
Nigga cross me took it out of space and
Niggas thought they lost me
I'm back like a chiroprac'
With b-boy survival rap
It ain't ninety-fo' Joe, we can't go back
The game need a makeover
My man retired, I'mma takeover
Tell these halftime niggas break's over
I'm raw, hustlas get your baking soda
Too many rape the culture
Leave rappers with careers and
They faith over it's a war goin' on
You can't fake bein' a soldier
In the basement, listening to tapes of Ultra-
Magnetic, to the fact the messiah is black
I'll turn the TV down
We can take it higher than that
I wonder if these whack
Niggas realize they whack
And they the reason that my people
Say they tired of rap
Inspired by black Muslims and Christians
Pushin' cutlasses, dope
And other traditions
In the conditions of the city, the city
The city, the city, the city, the city
Come on

And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit

A black figurein the middle
With chaos and gunfire
So many raps about rims
Surprised niggas ain't become tires
On the street you turn cold
And then go screech
I tell 'em "fuck 'em" like I do to police
The beast is runnin' rampant
I'm in between sheets tryin' to
Have sex that's tantric for the ghetto
Tryin' to make a get-up stand-up anthem
You spit hot garbage son of Sanford
What you rappin' for to get
Fame or get rich? I slap a nigga like you
And tell him "Rick James bitch!"
With your Hollywood stories, on porches
We polly hood stories about who became rich
And whatever light they hit
We wanna hit the same switch
You didn't know where to aim it
You still remain bitch
I'm forever puttin' words together
Some'll sever mothers from daughters
And fathers from sons the name Com'
Has never been involved wit' run
Unless it's DMC
Or runnin' these broads to bein' free
I'm harder than the times, you hardly scary
Holdin' gats inside, you cats is Halle Berry
They ask me where hip-hop is goin'
It's Chicagoan poetry's in motion like a
Picture now showin'
It's the city, the city y'all, the city
Uh, the city y'all, come on

And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
We don't stop, naw, we don't quit
And ya say Chi-City
Common Sense, from the city of wind