Jazz in the Projects

Open minded where the 24/7's will redefine it

You got enough army to bear arms with the timing

Hugging on a clock like you Ja Morant out the lining

In Vince Guaraldi climate, I'm just here for realignment

The straight and narrow path that was parallel to colliding

My Penny's on the gas but if I'm jumping out the ride then

I'm self-taught immune to the creases that they was hiding

I don't fold under confinement, at all

And all it take of us, is everything they take from us

Told us not to write down the recipes when they apron us

Leading us to cook without measuring was the gate for us

Keep that, and only at the repast can they plate with us

Mine was in a styrofoam I could box up to go with

Doubled it like how they come with two to dump a fo' (four) in

Never have, never will but I respect they way they code it

While still tryna talk them out their cherry Faygo motion

Ride with a motive, so when it's time shit at least you ain't die in the open

Open minded like the stores I described in the open

The closing remarks that left you

Deciding between a trip to Mecca or a trip to Bethel

In line with the heathens, and if it's like that, then shit it's like that

I got jazz vinyl older than civil rights acts

Pitch you a light pack

The good fight deep in the jungle where pistols will fight back

I show up late to a show they like "ayo where Spike at?"

The closest one without a bloodline all off how I does mine

Nightmares over Jakes when Snoop was calling them one time

But turned it up religiously

Breaking down the accents and all of the distance in between

Alone in this fight for power we Carlton Ridenhour

Fight the powers that be like MTV put bans around us

Yellow tape it like Off-White in this fight

Appreciation's like good work, it might have a pinch of flour, ha

In the 25th hour they told us what the key is now

Money power respect, you tryna turn the key around

Respect power and money based on what it adjust like

Serving base out the back, the building lean like an upright

Parents cool as Ron Carter

Jumping off the stoop will have you cosplaying Shawn Carter

Lucky lefty arm barter

The block mayor held mother sister tight and

Said "I hope you win the wars that you ain't tell no one you're fighting."

Reasons beyond measure we be measured in abundance

Effortless usually take all of the effort you can come with

Singing to choir been the move, no assumptions

The only thing that sounds better muted is the trumpet

And I'm left to the stick around and describe it and give it logic

Front row view of a project throughout the projects

Connected through the brownstones and English Tudor houses

In drop two doors where they would tutor you around it, over

Jazz in the projects

You pull up a window

Five piece harmonies cuing up a tempo

Jazz in the projects

You pull up a window