(feat. Plesor)



[Chorus: sung by Askari X]

When it was Summer time

Hot in the Oakland Streets,

Man, I wished it would rain

but the sun kept shining on me (kept shining on me)

But brother, when the Winter came

Along with the storms and the wind

I couldn't wait for that sun to shine

Down on me again



[Verse 1]

I know your mama never said that there'd be days like this

I watched my brother play the game, he swung the bat and missed 

Three timing on block, the police jacked the man for selling yea

25 to life, the brother had a baby on the way

He told the judge, "I couldn't get a job; and if I did,

$4.75 an hour ain't enough to feed my kid"

Seems like a plot to keep me trapped inside a ghetto maze

And it's a trip, a liquor store on every corner

Buy some drank, take a sip

Get to slipping down memory lane, talkin about way back 

when a nickel bag of thai'd get me high



[Lady sings]

Super high super high



[Chorus: sung by Askari X]

That's when I was a teenage child

I didn't have to pay no rent

Mama always cooked my food

Didn't worry how my money was spent

When I became a man

I began to understand

Why "My papa was a rolling stone"

By the time, had to slow his roll



[verse 2]

Yea, but even then brothers used to die, hustling to get they skrilla

On the for real-la, the police used to kill a

black man, jack him for nothing, beat him down like Rodney King

Ain't nothing changed since the 60's

Dig what I mean: a smile is a frown turned upside down

It's 1969, turned the right way around

The Yin and the Yang don't pay no gang, and that's the truth

If the Yang take the tears, it won't make it through the years



[Chorus: sung by Askari X]

It's revolution time

We've got to set our people free

Some of you are going to lose your life

Fighting for your children and your wives

So you better try to fill their minds

With the teachings of Allah, from Elijah.

Cause when the smoke clear, I'll be here

But if you don't, you'll be fuel for the fire



[verse 3]

Never judge a book by the cover, you study long, you study wrong

You lag in the game, you lose your life

You made your bed, now say goodnight  

Piggly Wiggly, cause we've been watching you for a long time

The way you Beauregarde in your police cars

Riding through my city

AsKari X is born and raised in the Oakland streets

Watching my mama's baby daddy jack for bread and meat

Two in degree on that other level, that game was fed to me

But I aimed that negative energy at the enemy

When I get the urge to kill a sleepy sucka, 

I buck a cracker, in the back of his dome, his skull shattered

The gray matter they call brains splattered

up against the wall, the rest oozed out his head on the gooch

I took his skrilla, I left him dead as I fled the 7 deuce

The righteous black gorillas was in the session

That's when I was moved to kick this lesson



[Chorus: sung by Askari X]

When it was Summer time

Hot in the Oakland Streets, (hot in the Oakland Streets)

Man, I wished it would rain, but the sun kept shining on me

But brother, when the Winter came

Along with the storms and the wind

I couldn't wait for that sun to shine

Down on me again



[singing lady improves until fade]