Rasool lyrics
Song information
Artist: Jill Scott Album: Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds 2
Lyrics
His name was rasool/ carmel complected boy from the 22/ rough on the outside/ but inside he was cool/ Rasool was a king/ but also a fool/ Back on the block again with the same crew/ Tariq from the west side / little john form the avenue / Always seen 'em bout a quarter to two/ shaking hands with everybody/ But at the same time sharing the blues/ and ooh he passed it on / Shaking hands till what was in his pockets was gone/ He'd be outside in the cold with his bubble goose on / but inside / Somehow I knew he wasn't warm/ around 10:30 on that dreary night/ His boyz said they were hungry and Wanted to get a bite/ now they didn't send a runner/ Rasool knew it wasn't right / but he stayed anyway tryin' to get the chain he liked / And oh how the shots rang in the streets/ hittin' everybody in the surrounding vicinity / children of children / One young father to be / and rasool lay dead on my north philly street / At fifteen years old/ it was the first death i'd seen / but in years to come there'd be many many brothers slained/ tryin' to win at the game/but the game ain't designed for no kind of winning / And oh this is a friend of rasool/ begging you to think about what you do and who you call your crew/ The very choices you make/ may make a rasool out of you/ Now you don't want that do you?/ you don't want that do you...
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
"Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds 2" album track list
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