Story To Tell

Woke amakasi amakasi
Uyazi uyazi uyazi uyazi
You know hold it up with pride where from
Cause it can never be the same anywhere else
You know check me out

I'm from the East of the Rand homeboy
Where George Bush and Hussein don't mean no stain homeboy
They wanna start wars with trick homeboy
Well it's about time the world caught up with trick homeboy
Cause the war never stopped round here
Weapons of all kinds are homemade or supplied by cops
Drugs are so available you'd think they sell them at shops
Looking special at funerals cause guns always cock
Corners stay the same
Kids that occupy them go insane and dead
Or locked up then replace it's a vicious chain
Only the corners will live to tell
Something call and help this is where we dwell
Where all commit suicide we buy freedom in jail
This is the scariest place but we'd rather be here
This is where we lost family where we drink beer
This is where we grew up man
This is our home

What's up y'all this is Celestine from Vaal
Hola to my crew Skwatta Kamp yo

Yo what's up my name is Johnny from Yeoville
Love Skwatta Kamp
Can you guys give me a deal I can rap
But I love you anyway

Joburg city for the greedy wilding city of gold
Place of hope for the needy these are stories untold
Stick-ups hijacks and the kills hundred fold
Jozi streets are pushing for the state of all kind
Guns and the love of money got fathers killing their sons
Calling with the city of dreams promised-land for the poor
Drug dealers and taxi drivers always ready for war
Walk around alone at night and you get robbed for sure
Crime galore believe it it's no metaphor
Face the floor robbery is right at your door
Living in fear cause you know the time is near
Rich or poor this here is what we all share

Ke Masechaba from Lebowakgomo
That's where I grew up I don't know what to say fuck

Sure Lebokgang aka Tswekere Shugela Smakx
Rockville waitse city Shawelo Lionedale and through and through
Venda to Kwazulu Natal show case

Here's a place where the movers and the crooks grew up
A place to be proud of where this kid grew up
As a young lad growing up in Soweto
I had to make ends meet every day of my life
It wasn't all a smooth ride I had to fall and get up
I had to be a grown man at an early age
Waking up at five o'clock just to catch a bus
Township mentality got the best of us
Represent West Rand untill the day that I die
Dobsonville Shawelo this is a calling for you
If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be what I am
A grown man with a mission putting value for you

Fede uWandile lona
Big ups to Umlazi Kwamashu konke

Sure bafwethu
UBricks lona ngi represent' iAlex
Zonke amakasi wonke Bloemfontein bafwethu sigrand niyazi Skh'okh'o

Charlie Mingus mfwethu ngi
Represent' amacarwash

What you from the East West side fuck it I'm from the North
Gomora sbal' where the thugs never get caught
And I'd like to have a picnic in a cute place like Hillbrow
But Hillbrow dwellers they think Alex is hell bro
Mang' hlala khona s'push ismokolo and get dope
Alex get smacked though
Ho cha mpama ho lla difebe ho nkha letaere
I'll be real with you fuck with me hao batle ho nyela
U ya bona i-Alex ke kasi ya makasi
Mau surviv'a u hlala daar ba ya gidela aba phansi
I'm not leaving my hood there's plenty to see
Ak'na lapho ngiya khona mfwethu ngi bodela heir

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