Price Of Pride

Okay, I'ma dedicate this one out to the youth
You know who you are
20-44, 2-26, 2204, Mount County, Claymore, the entire West, Bellside and Mascot
The South Shire, entire Northshore, I'm feeling y'all, that's right
And to the rest of our young P.I's worldwide
I'm right here for you

It's the most agonizing a picture
A young brother or sister
Young runaways in the cold zone from a broke home getting pissed up
Used flea to the streets as an escape route from the heat
'Cause they sick of living in fear and repeatedly being beat
Just scared seeds with a heart fully sabotaged of affection
With cold eyes and a hard head and another bruised complexion
They never heard love mentioned from their own folks in a sentence
But except when they beat 'em half to death, then when it's senseless
A young daughter falls pregnant, a young brother's been sentenced
But instead of you giving help out to our youth, know you resent them
So never mind point fingers, just listen up and you learn something
You add to conditions when you stand there and you do nothing
People where is the justice? And how much will it cost us?
5 more, maybe 10 more young lives gone 'til it stops us
We need to reach for these young souls, tell 'em they need to come home
Forget pride, it's only a matter of time 'til they become cold

Pride, it is the enemy of all man (sing it for me now)
Pride, it turns the intellectual bad (sure does)
Pride, prevents the mind to understand (for real)
This is the price of pride (that's right)
This is the price of pride

The streets drink 'em up and then drown 'em
Then overdose 'em in thousands
No inner peace and it's killing me 'cause my heart hurts and it's pounding
I'm freaking out, you kick 'em round while our seeds bleed on the ground and
You show deep satisfaction while they're screaming out for you cowards
I feel for them. So these rap flows here, I must spill for them
I see little younger me's who are in need of a building in
I know that it's hectic. Love becomes anorexic
Premature homicide, Lord, young early birds on your guest list
Young daughters are disowned, young brothers with no homes
Proud folks and they won't show that it hurts them, though we both know
Pride kills and it's treacherous
Honestly it's affecting us, our customs, traditions that are irrelevant get the best of us
And though people neglected them, I give my respect to them
Remember, they're our evidence that we exist, invest in them
So reach out to our young souls and don't beef, tell 'em, "come home"
Forget pride, it's only a matter of time 'til they become cold

Pride, it is the enemy of all man (trust me man)
Pride, it turns the intellectual bad (yeah, listen up)
Pride, prevents the mind to understand ('cause you see)
This is the price of pride (that's right)
This is the price of pride

How can people just stand by and witness another young man die?
Young bro's at the lamp post but you cruise by 'cause your damn pride
Won't stop you to give help, you just mock and you give 'em hell
What good is a childhood when your own roots offer no help?
Look at life and it's simple, now think about what you live for?
Fuck them and their whispers these are our kids in the bin, yo
I raise up on my people, my young ones in the peep holes
I stay strong 'til I'm dead gone for the G, He, double T, O's
You say God is a good God you hippacritical Christians
'Cause one loss from your damn flock then you turn around and just diss them
They lack love and that vacuums, they turn around in the values
Is it their fault? Man I doubt that so don't rub salt in their past wounds
Come down from your high horse eliminate all the bad thoughts
It's too late we got no say when their time comes then death calls
So reach out for our young souls, our seeds gotta come home
Forget pride, it's only a matter of time 'til they become cold

Pride, it is the enemy of all man (please believe that)
Pride, it turns the intellectual bad (can you hear me?)
Pride, prevents the mind to understand (uh-huh)
This is the price of pride (yeah)
This is the price of pride

That's the price of pride
It can be the only thing that stops us from helping our youth

Pride, it is the enemy of all man
Pride, it turns the intellectual bad
Pride, prevents the mind to understand
This is the price of pride
This is the price of pride
Listen up now
Yo, yo Glebe and Burwood, Liverpool, right out to Parramatta
I'm feeling for y'all, that's right
And all of my villains, locked down
From Parklea to the Bay, Silverwater, man
I ain't never forgot ya's
Just remember that