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119th
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119th adlı parça {albumName} albümünün bir parçası olarak 100 Keep It / Duck Down Music Inc. tarafından 13 Nisan 2018 tarihinde yayınlandıPAPI
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Yayın Tarihi13 Nisan 2018
Firma100 Keep It / Duck Down Music Inc.
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Mm, I'm from Spanish Harlem, yeah
I'm from the Barrio, mm
Yo
My pops was a deacon
Only seen him on the weekends
Only seen him when he sleepin', uh, yo
My pops whip my ass, he rather use his belt
Instead of quality time, I still love him though
I still hug him though
He never spoke about women, never gave advice
I don't remember if he taught me how to ride a bike
I can't remember if he even taught me how to fight
I still love him though
That's my dad, when I see him, still hug him though
I can't blame my dad for my upbringin'
The church was so corrupted
We had a pastor that told him beat his kids for nothin'
I still love him though
I'ma keep repeatin', I'ma keep rebukin'
Holy Spirit speakin', uh, yo
Holy Spirit speakin'
He told me, "Stay in school or you gotta work"
Tuesday, Friday, Sunday, went to church
I'm from 119th, shoutout to G-O-D
That's George, that's Ed Black, Chabi
Told me if I sold crack on the block, he would help
I was misguided but I wanted money
I seen KC and I like it like that
Lookin' up to bro, I wanna get it like that
Shoutout my homie Stacks, I know him as Ralph
Shoutout to homie Hummer, I know him as Jeffrey
And his brother Victor, we was all amigos
You can ask amigo, my **** Super Dave
I'm from 119th, Ray-Ban's mother yellin' out the window
Playin' baseball with Joselito
I'm from 119th, Building 222
They killed my homie Lucky when he was fifteen
Shoutout to Erica, that's Lucky little sister
We the same age, apartment 1D
I was born and raised, the crack era
Rudy Giuliani days, I can see it now
Jumpin' over valves, I'm talkin' Ted Smooth
All the renegades, Juany Fink my brother
Stevie Green Eyes, I'm from 119th, PS 96
I had Ms. Cintron, me and Eric
We call him Niso, y'all call him Sego
I'm from Spanish Harlem, Taino Towers
Shoutout to Gusto, that's my heart for real
My **** Cole Bizza, he made it out the steel
Shoutout my homie Mikey, shoutout the homie Joe
Shoutout my brother Papi, that's my ****, yo
He used to hold me down, my brother Kaseem
He used to play ball, Elamin
I'm from 119th, shoutout to Nub Cabeza
I'm from East Harlem, shoutout to Purple City
Before Shiest Bub, remember Wu-Tang?
Shot a video on 2nd Ave, what's it called?
Ice Cream, right in front of Wagner
Right in front of Tainos, I'm from Spanish Harlem
Went to Boys Club, shoutout to Ray and Gil
Rest in peace Boogie, I knew him as Josh
Shoutout to Ms. Dee in the drama class
I'm from the Boys Club, R.I.P. Alonzo
He always smiled and laughed, shoutout to Jesse Sapp
Shoutout my brother Bucky, can't forget Joel
My first girl Yolanda, puppy love for real
Shoutout to Yvonne, she was one of the baddest
Up in El Barrio, I'm from Spanish Harlem
Second Macedonia, that's my church's name
Rest in peace Ms. Franco, I miss her dearly
She taught me everything, The Book of Revelation
Church on Sunday, ****, my brother played the drums
Now he's my engineer, I went to church on Sunday
I took the bread and wine, I was baptized
At the age of twelve, I went to church on Sunday
They used to laugh at me, I was so embarrassed
Never hid my Bible, never worshipped idols
I used to preach the word in front of my peers
They were speakin' tongues, jumpin' out of chairs
That's the Holy Ghost, I used to go to church
I'm talkin' every Sunday, they couldn't shut me up
I was askin' questions, breakin' all the rules
I was so bad up in Sunday school
I'm from Spanish Harlem
Now, bein' that they were, you know, your parents were strict or your
Father was on the stricter side and religion played such a role in
Your house, obviously, it's not that no more. So, this culture
The street culture, even the way you guys, your appearance and the
Way you look, tattoos and, I mean, I didn't even realize Ola has
Tattoos inside of his ear, right? (Mm-hmm, yeah) So, very common
Today, I mean, we're all tatted, we live a different life but when
You started makin' the transition into those types of things where
You started tattooing and outwardly, you know what I'm sayin'
Outwardly you start lookin' like how you feel on the inside, like
This is who I am. How did your parents, how did your father
Especially, how does he react with that? (Oh, bet, I remember when
I first got my tattoo, I was, uh, I got, I had a tattoo on my arm
We both got 'em and we—) Same time? (We, we still live with, we still
Live with our parents, I think I was like 17 and, uh, I hid my shit
For like a week, like when I get, when I go in the shower, I'll come
Out with it, with a joint and then when he seen it, I think he just
Looked at us and shook his head. He just goes—) Even the earrings
When we had earrings, the same thing (Earrings too, he just, he just
Shakes his head, like he's not gonna tell us, da-da-da) Yo, bro
What's, what's, what's even more crazier, bro, is that I have
Friends who grew up with me in church who have tattoos on
Their body and their fathers still ain't see them, and they
Had tattoos for ten years. That's the, the, the discipline
That they have, that the parents have distilled in the child
Like they, they respect their parents so much (They're adults
And they still—) They're adults now and they will not show
Their parents, what they got when they was eighteen
Years old, nineteen years old, five, ten years ago
Like, still to this day, you know what I'm
Sayin', they still hide they tattoos and shit
So you guys, I mean, after that point at fifteen years old
When your dad kind of, uh, let you know that he's on your side
You know what I'm sayin'?
I mean, I think we got too big for the beatings
Yeah, that too
But I mean, even just in terms of like, "
I'm gonna accept you guys for who you are"
Yeah, you know, like, he's like
You know what I mean? "Okay, I see you"
It became more of a connection at that age
He also told me, though, too, that it
Had a lot to do with the church he was in
Like, you gotta understand, like, we Pentecostal
You know what I'm sayin'? That's the religion that
I, I grew up in, you know, you know, Christianity
And there's certain churches that are, are
Are far more strict than other churches
There's certain churches that don't even let you wear earrings
Absolutely, yeah
Or shorts
So he—, and shorts
Or listen to music
Or listen to music
So he was, he—, we came from that type of church
Yo, like I said, we came from a church
Where the husband couldn't sit with his wife
Yeah, it was
It was damas and caballeros
It was separate
Left and right, women and men
So the, the moment he left that church, not to say that God wasn't in
That church, but it was just a different kind of discipline in there
Absolutely
So the moment he left that church and went to a more
Uh, free church, that's when he started lookin' at his
Sons like, "Nah, they not that bad, man, my kids is good"
It's like he was measuring you by the strict guidelines of his church
By his leader, by the leader, by the pastor
By the pastor
'Cause remember how I told you, when I was a few months old
He asked that pastor, "How can I raise my kid with—," you know
What I mean? "With, with—, how can I raise him correctly?"
And the pastor replied, "Raise him how you
Were raised," you know what I'm sayin'?
So that was the kind of mentality that that
Church had, like, you know what I mean?
Like, it was more like, "They can't do this, they can't do that
" "You're goin' to Hell if, if, if, if you eat meat on Sunday"
It was that type of shit, you know what I'm sayin'?
Like, that was—, they were very, very strict
Not, not, not—, once again, not to say that there wasn't love in there
Absolutely, yeah, yeah
It wasn't God's love, but they were almost
Like fan—, fanático, they were fanatics
Well, at that point, it's not, you know what I mean?
Believin' in God is one thing, but the, like you said, the
Discipline, the practices around that particular religion
Yeah
That's what you were subjected to
It's not God, it's the man creating the system
Exactly
To support their belief
Exactly
And you guys were kinda caught, caught in that
Exactly, yeah
This concludes the first part of this cassette
Please turn the cassette over and begin again
Written by: Michael Cisneros, Nathaniel De La Rosa

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