ฟังเพลงLittle Chicago Boy

Little Chicago Boy (芝加哥小男孩) - Common/Tasha Cobbs

Written by：Lonnie Lynn/Emmanuel Riggins/Tasha Cobbs/Adam Feeney

How should I begin

This is the story of a boy named Lonnie Lynn

As I said it the spirits enwhip me

He was raised in the belly of the city

Chicago

Discovered by du Sable

A Black Frenchman

That I had to mention

Extensions of a young man raised on a low end

47th and Michigan lackin' a little discipline

Grandma Mable did the best she could

You know how young brothers want a testy hood

There he stood taller than most Black boys

One of the best ballers out of Illinois

Collagen Ohio this is like his bio

Talks that we had man they was never idle

He talked about readin' the Quran and the Bible

He talked how he smoked d**e and sold it for survival

He talked about the ancestors in our lives they're vital

He said y'all boys love the bang 'cause you tribal

Spiral of life Chicago to Denver

Anywhere he went of attention he's the center

69 big heart big mind

He spent his lifetime wantin' to be big time

He did in a way he made to the ABA

And the things he say on my record

When I was a shawty he bought me

The Message

It was his messages in life I would step with

Didn't see him much spirits are connected

Father creates it the son can reflect it

His perspective sometimes seemed crazy

His perspective sometimes seemed brilliant

His perspective somehow it shaped me

His perspective undoubted I feel it

He'd walk around in them Air Jordans I gave him

I said Pops them from Mike man you better save 'em

The fight that he had with cancer was a brave one

Took Dr. Sebi's herbs instead of medication

Breathing heavy he talked reparations

He said

Son we live through our generations

Offspring coughing Gene Ammons was playing

In the background he was talking I was praying

Our Father take care of my father

As far as he went may I go farther

May our dreams and legacies live through our children

Though I can't touch him I can still feel him

You know the other day

I got a phone call

I got a message says pops you been gone from home too long

So I set my bags down and headed to 87th street

I was just back in the neighborhood ya know cruising the same street that

I used to cruise in my long black Fleetwood

Listening to the Minister and Dr. King

And my beloved brother Malcolm

First thing is see I'm boundless with spiritual energy

I wanna talk about the moral necessities of human justice

The power and the action of God given dignity

One can not enter the gate if you hate

You gotta take the lead for the rest of the world

87th is the street of knowledge

The streets of knowledge are all over the world

We got a possibility again of leading the world

Chi my Chi we gon' ask you for safe passage

For the kids to walk to school

Alright my young homies we got a mission to finish

We got the unborn that we got to provide the truth for

Tasha Cobbs：

I gotta be honest it's so much different without you here

But I have no fear

I'll see you when I get there

To that city bright and fair

You were all I needed you to be

And now I thank you for all you gave for me

So Father I stretch my hands to Thee

No other help I know

If you

If you withdraw yourself yourself from me

Somebody tell me where oh where shall I go

Father I stretch my hands to Thee

No other help I know

If you withdraw yourself from me

Tell me where oh where shall I go