Staircase Confessional
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Where every Negro becomes a star from blasts that end good nights.
Pissing on the floor to track footprints.
Earning rank in hallways.
Roaches flicking each other from ashtrays, learning at our lowest and darkest to find a way.
A lesson in how to behave, how to survive, digging yourself deeper in trenches, when you rise, you become a ghetto wonder.
Hurting means you do good work. You just never recover.
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Alternate beginning.
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Where every Negro becomes a star from blasts that end good nights.
Whatchu mean? Fuckin, fistfights or gunplay.
Nah, I’m talking that dope fast food- have it your way.
