Gentrification - Oddisee

Interlude

Uh yea

What’s up Cam?

Good looking out on this beat though

Cam be getting mad yall he be like

«Man what you want my beats for you make your own beats»

This shit hot nigga!

Yea, I was gon rap about rapping on this joint or something

Some generic shit about love or something like that

But you know me

Yea just ride with us then

Did I mention I was from Largo?

Where niggas ride dirty with more green in they whips than Wells Fargo

Yall know this whole side of the district When niggas move quick when they

couch get evicted

Ouch they right with it they house tax raised up

Gentrification on the rise they like «pay up»

It’s no surprise when White folks is moving in

Cause they got the money and time to pursue the trends

Same trends be end of us pure

Mom and pops store replaced by Couture Starbucks here and a Starbucks there

How much coffee you need my god it’s unfair

They move away from the burbs to escape the monotony

Bring along wit em they pilates and pottery

Classes and all that unfair shit

My city don’t look the same

What a shame it’s tragic

Oddisee

«Yea, that shit is crazy though

Rockville niggas moving out the city out to Peezy County and shit

It’s all good

Magic Johnson building us a new movie theater and shit

We got Bo Jangles you know what I’m saying

All niggas welcome all niggas will come all niggas accepted

Yea, Mo county now niggas out there too.»

I heard niggas from the city is moving out to Mo county now

Section 8 relocating them to German Town

Aspen Hill too, Rockville, Wheaton

Tom and Jane move in and Leeroy leaving Its something to see when the

authenticity of a city is

Replaced by college kids and hassadidiness

Urban decay making way for Ikeas

Luxury loss replacing with eye seers

And history lost

My mother used to eat at Ben’s Chili Bowl when she was young and had love and

on a date

And now I’m grown up and I grab a plate at the same place she used to

congregate And to me that’s safe

I can’t fake shit

I don’t eat there cause of inflation

The whites came in

I used to get a chilli dog with fries for 5 but now I pay 10

They gotta pay rent

So now they raise the price

The you street takeover it’s the greatest heist

A major makeover and my people ain’t included

We getting booted out the city like it’s nothing to it

Outro

Uh, shits wild man

Heard the same shit going up in uh up in Harlem

Going on over in uh Chicago too man

Shits crazy

And you know when Hurricane Katrina came through in New Orleans they was glad

Washing all the niggas out

Then they gon help them help get they shit back together?

Hell naw man that shit boutta be ritzy down there man (?) Haha

Same shit going on in Atlanta too

Up in Philly all the major cities yall

Yea just rock wit me