Yasiin Bey - Habitat lyrics

I come up in the street
Around some real wild brothers
With more than one name and
More than one baby mother
More than one case, been on more than one run
Got more than one enemy and more than one gun
Partner, all that's left to want is more
While these cats that's less privileged
Is just more raw
Less space cause the projects
Laced with more flaws
Less sleep cause the nights ain't peace
It's more war the can is raw like thirsty
Rainy season thunder claps
On the block with your old
Pop pleading number act
To the spot with the red
Top fiends is huddled at
To the crib where the little
Kids spend their summers trapped
With the jungle cats, lions and tigers
Leopards and cheetahs
For gazelle you get chased like a zebra
They blaze cheeba-cheeba
And dominate the weaker on the street
Hungry bellies only love what they eat
And it's hard to compete
When they smile with your heart in they teeth
And the odds is stacked
High beyond and beneath
Son I been plenty places in my life and time
And regardless where home is
Son home is mine

We all got to have
A place where we come from
This place that we come from is called home
We set out on our travels
We do the best we can
We travel this big earth as we roam
We all got to have
A place where we come from
This place that we come from is called home
And even though we may love
This place on the map
Said it ain't where ya from, it's where ya at

Some people live out in-New York City
Some people live out in-Atlanta
Some people got to live-Chicago
Some people do live-Miami
All my people at-California
And other people got to live-London
And everybody got to live in
The whole big world together just you and me

When I think of home
My remembrance of my beginning
Laundromat helping ma dukes fold
The bed linen
Chillin in front my building with
My brother and them
Spending nights in Bushwick with
My cousins and them
Wise town and Beat Street, federal relief
Slowly melting in the morning grit's
We used to eat
Sticking to your teeth and teeth
Is hard to keep
With every flavor Now & Later
Only a dime apiece old timers on the bench
Playing cards and thangs
Telling tales about they used to
Be involved in things
Start to drinking, talking loud
Cussing up and showing out
On the phone, call the cops, pick'em up
Move'em out
And it's all too common to start wildin
I'm a pirate on an island
Seeking treasure known as silence
And it's hard to find
Block parties in dark lobbies
Funeral homes packed but only dark bodies
I can't sleep hardly
Stirred up like Bob Marley
Marley Marl played the symphony
Remember we recall son I been to many places
In my space and time
And whatever my home is, son home is mine

We all got to have
A place where we come from
This place that we come from is called home
We set out on our travels
We do the best we can
We travel this big earth as we roam

We all got to have
A place where we come from
This place that we come from is called home
And even though we may love
This place on the map
Said it ain't where ya from, it's where ya at