lirik lagu back to the streets – mario william vitale
gangs in los angeles
don’t fly their colors
the way they use to
but the rivalries persist
in the 1980’s members of two dominant gangs
the crips and bloods
flaunted their affiliation
by dressing in blue (crips)
or red (blood)
even doing so made them targets
today
computer databases
gang injunctions, and enhanced criminal sanctions
for gang-related crime
have driven such obvious, outward expressions
of gang affiliation underground
gang members now wear their colors
mainly on you tube
where they concealed their ident-ties with bandanas
like the cowards they are
or on special occasions
as a result
a blue or red shirt no longer
signifies gang membership
in the way that it used to
at least, it’s not suppose to
but imagine a kid at the age of 14
stepped out in front of his boy’s house
wearing red in south l.a controlled by a crips member
of the gang pedaling past took offense and opened fire on him
k!lled instantly
they celebrate it embracing bragging rights
there was someone a long time ago who wore blue
whom rewrote history
jackie robinson wore blue, played for brooklyn dodgers
change the game by not being the 1st negro to play baseball
but ended segregation of the jim crow era
no one won’t wave their hands for that
but would rather throw their fingers in the air
and talk smack about an innocnet life was taken
people say slavery ended
no it didn’t
people still enslave each other
by promoting fabrications of illusions whose purpose
is to k!ll someone who rocks a certain color
it didn’t stop
it created a serious heat wave hotter than a 90 degree with humidity of 100
that travel from l.a to n.y
same mentality, same motive
k!ll by any means necessary (something that malcolm x would cry in his grave)
if he had heard this non-sensible ideology
gangs recruitment increase
names of gangs sky rocketed
colors have become multi-dimensional
like yellow and black-that’s right
they are call latin kings
whose idiotic notion of anyone wearing that color is an enemy
they honor his form of gang affiliation by praying to amor de rey
that means king’s love
i knew someone that wore yellow and black proudly
his name was roberto clemente
who played for pittsburgh pirates
recorded his 3000th hit in his career
before his fatal plane crash that took his life
before his time
why no one celebrated him opening up doors for latinos to play baseball
in which became a major contribution
but rather k!ll your rivals, trinitarios for what? retribution
people are scare for their lives
all because they walk 5 blocks in the wrong direction
if we don’t find alternatives for young people
to keep them safe and build an ident-ty
we’re giving that power back to the streets
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