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The Barrel

from The Hope Business by junclassic

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lyrics

Yeah?
yeah nigga yeah
yeah yeah

Verse 1

Ha
They say a sucker born every second
be two hundred suckers by the end of this record
time more precious than a pimp’s pussy
them hoes have ya nose open like mint cookies
Max Julien hooligans
goons and computer men
moving in unison
i been on defense i went on attack
ya know a little of this a little of that
couldn’t be another sucker
before drugs it was number runners
brothers ducking undercovers
then the whole game got smack
niggas got got and we never got jack

Hook 1

Bottom of The Barrel
in the rotten apple
who gon be ya cocker spaniel
middle of Harlem i listen to Marvin
meditate to The Education of Sonny Carson
movement brewing in the student union
looking for a new solution
i do the recruiting like Huey Newton
men of action like George Jackson
Fred Hampton
Geronimo Last Man Standing

Verse 2

Who ready for a revolution
even if its ending with ya execution
lotta hands going down now
we might as well join them boys in Moscow
word to my Momma
ya see how them pigs just did Sister Assata
they even got The Panthers going underground
and what the hell’s with Eldridge brother bugging out
picture Panthers looking like Temptations
two groups one waiting at the bus station
still smell smoke from the night they killed Martin
that put a million kids in Harlem on milk cartons
New York going broke man
the man declared war on our folks in Oakland
so is you down for the cause
or just another brown boy bound by the laws

Hook 2

Bottom of The Barrel
in the rotten apple
who gon be ya cocker spaniel
middle of Harlem i listen to Marvin
meditate to The Education of Sonny Carson
movement brewing in the student union
looking for a new solution
i do the recruiting like Huey Newton
men of action like George Jackson
Fred Hampton
Geronimo Last Man Standing

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from The Hope Business, released October 23, 2020

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junclassic Queens, New York

junclassic is NOT Your average emcee. His voice is striking, something between the weighted baritone of a Bigge Smalls coupled with the streetwise snarl of a Prodigy. He often speaks in daily life narratives, barely escaping the pitfalls of New York City. Refreshingly candid, jun highlights the emotional burdens of Afrocentric modernity, a middle-aged Black man trying to make it all make sense. ... more

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