Stranger In My Home (Explicit)

Stranger In My Home ((Explicit)) - Zion I/Gift Of Gab

I'm a stranger in a home I own

Been livin' here twenty long years with my fam like a Corleone

But where did everybody go that I used to know

I moved in back in 'eighty four'

We was very 'poor wasn't even sellin' gold weight

Just movin' in to the Gold State

I reminisce about the closed gate

That seemed to wrap around

The music that we made

It had a ghetto sound

Most cats was black and brown in Urban areas

Was so infectious that

It spread out like Malaria

New York to Cali

Back to the dirty dirty

We used to be sixteen

But now we pushing thirty

I seen it change early

I pulled a Jheri Curly

On out to dready but the next phase we wasn't ready

It seemed enlightened as the years got longer

From black to white but the sales got stronger

We started going platinum it was bound happen

We went pop sleeping in beds of silk and satin

When I woke up from my sleep pronounced

Saw the whole scene had changed all my folks had bounced

But I ain't leaving 'cause I own this block

Been paying off my mortgage steady with my bonds and stock

I be buying property till I own the block

I love hip hop it's all I got

There's a stranger in my home

And he's watching

Yeah yeah yeah

There's a Stranger in my home

And he's watching

Yeah yeah

There's a stranger in my home

My house has been invaded

Went out for just a second

Came back it ain't the same as it was

At times I felt could leave the door unlocked

And let all come and go as they please

But knowing that was there

When I had left was there when I returned

New faces replications some styles

That they have learned

Like Greeks had did Egyptians

Complex to simplified

I suddenly realized

My cribs been gentrified

And if people don't know

Then how could people come

Big money neglect the hood

Suburban promotion

From urban emotion to corporation

Who really don't have a clue where they got they taste from

There's a stranger in my home and my peoples is gone

And I'm feeling like the outsider standing alone

There's a stranger in here

But the strangest thing to see

Is the way it's looking right now

The stranger is me

There's a stranger in my home

And he's watching

There's a Stranger in my home

And he's watching

Yeah yeah

There's a stranger in my home

Infiltrating my throne

Stop messing with my crib

Won't leave me alone

There's a stranger it's danger

The call of hip hop culture

When you're feeling hot

When you're not she's a vulture

Know that we're supposed to protect

And respect

But it's hard to stay righteous

When you needing a check

There's a stranger in my midst

Now I'm balling my fist

I never dreamed it would come to this

There is so much to me

So they're following me everywhere I go

I don't know what to do

But I gotta stay true

There's a stranger in my home

There's a stranger in my home

And he's watching

There's a stranger in my home

And he's watching

There's a strange

From the root to the fruit

That's where everything started at

This is God's act

We just act possessed