Artist: 3 Song: Swann Street Artist: DJ Eurok Song: This is DC Artist: Fugazi Song: Cashout

Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger Peace, justice, DJ eurok.com, watching them deceive On the morning of the first eviction Walking by myself live and direct, capital resistance They carried out the wishes of the landlord and his son Sometimes it seems these hopes and dreams You see they burnt down the block back In 68 Furniture's out on the sidewalk next to the family All came from somewhere else White folks boarded up and then moved out of state That little piggie went to market, They let the hood run down to enjoy the tax rate But I don't know So they're kicking out everyone Nevermind the broken windows that would cut and scrape

The junkies and the shooters they still congregate Talking about process and dismissal Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger It seemed like hard times, but then came 88 Forced removal of the people on the corner Walking by myself Cocaine, PCP, crack wars and the gate Shelter and location Sometimes it seems my hopes and dreams Chv ctu and all the states Cops are on the take the mayor licks the plate Everybody wants somewhere All came from somewhere else I know you heard the jokes because you probably seen the tape The elected are such willing partners But I don't know The mayor of DC smoking crack with his mate He claims he didn’t do it it was just a mistake Look who's buying all their tickets to the game The streets are stained and littered The feds set him up he didn’t even partake Development wants, development gets By the berries covering it Then he turned to the city please don’t forsake It's official Forgive and forget we don’t need the head date I wouldn't even notice Development wants this neighborhood gone The damage had been done and now its much too great So the city just wants the same But these berries smell like shit I don't know why This is DC you might think that you own it Talking about process and dismissal A piece of South Africa on the Potomac Forced removal of the people on the corner Well, I don't care how picturesque To the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam Shelter and location We overstand the struggle we gone drop the bomb (x2) Or incomplex your life gets Everybody wants somewhere

The ground's unsolid See you can’t vote but you gotta pay taxes Everybody wants somewhere, somewhere! Don't forget to keep your ear to the ground Not a city or state because they scared of the blacks Everybody wants somewhere, somewhere! Fuck chocolate city Imagine a chocolate state Everybody wants somewhere, somewhere! 2 chocolate senators in the debate Sometimes I feel an anxious peace Everybody wants somewhere! I'm walking by myself Excuse me Mr. Helms please show some restraint My colleague from the district would like to restate Process and dismissal. Process and dismissal. Like everyone 'round that I pass His opposition on your plan to raise the tax rate Shelter and location. Should kick my ass On the poorer citizens whose lives you dictate Everybody wants somewhere. And wake me fast, I know This would have been the scene back in the day but the racist ass crackers had their way Everybody wants somewhere, somewhere! And I can forget what is mine And kept us out of the process and stole democracy Everybody wants somewhere, somewhere! Laughed in the chambers and kept the policy When I'm walking by myself Everybody wants somewhere, somewhere! Cut to the scene in the hotel years later 'Cause counting everything you own The gravity of the situation is now much greater Artist: Christylez Song: Urban Redevelopment Is just like counting cobblestones They got a new excuse for holding us back Oh yeah Its not because youre black your mayor smokes crack Inner city we be chilling Hook( x2) Doing things to make a living Artist: Evens Songs: Mt. Pleasant Isnt Everybody touching feelings If it’s a colony then where’s the resistance Landed here uninvolved Super duper, that’s maneuvers I would vote for a mayor that shows persistence Questions there unresolved Every man has a girl Not the bow tie we’ll reconsider You cut your hand as you threw A perfect day, a perfect world He’ll just sell the city off to the highest bidder The push the shove came to pass Where every little black princess Close DC general, privatize the jails, give the whole damn city to The battle planned real at last Is draped in necklaces and pearls Doug Jamel But not the one you though you knew What we need religion for But what about latinos, and mtp, the black families down in south- And anger takes place of what's destroyed We down to hit the floor east Mt. Pleasant isn't anymore Chillin’ The Ethiopians, the Vietnamese, and all the hard working people that In the end what went on We don’t care about the war live in dc Was not about right and wrong Because its on our television They treat em like theyre doing a job for no thanks Despite the charges that people threw Treat that joint like it’s a song While they settle the neighborhoods with the suv tanks Empty shelves broken glass Turn it off and turn it on For years the banks wouldn’t loan inside of the city The battle planned real at last These cats is stabbing They had a plan to make sure the blocks were gritty But no the one you thought you knew I’ll be gone But on the inside they made them look pretty to And anger takes place of what's removed Lets renovate our homes Sell to rich folks when they came for the city Mt. Pleasant isn't anymore Setting up tanning salons

The police will not be excused Baseball stadium domes Hook (x2) The police will not behave Cant turn our craniums on

All too much is lost in anger and never Should I keep dancing some more This is DC – 600,000 American citizens denied their right enough is saved They don’t understand To congressional representation because the racism And anger takes place of what's ignored So we sing and clap your hands Historical, structural, and procedural of this great nation of ours In the middle of the jam Cuz the short attention span Artists: The Aquarium Song: Can’t Afford We outcha making the skrilla Chilling, watching these villas Oh can’t afford to live here Next to section 8 housing Oh, cant afford to run Made by federal builders Oh can’t afford to live here We cant be educating on the track Oh, cant afford to run Cuz its forsaken What if we moved, moved together Something like abomination Move our bodies move together So lets keep these honeys shaking Oh, cant afford to move them Oh, cant move to the past Buildings dropping everywhere Oh, ant afford to move there Higher powers they don’t care Oh, never can go back All they really want to hear What if we moved in together Is throw your hands up in the air Move our bodies in together True Move it! Cuz all they want to do is bounce What if we move, move together They just want us to sing and dance (x2) Combine our volume in a pickup Oh, can’t afford to live here Southeast, we be chilling Oh, can’t afford to run Northeast, we be chilling Oh can’t to live here Southwest on the low low Oh, can’t afford to run But northwest is on top They got us fried, dyed, and laid to the side Now we gotta work twice as hard to get by DC is moving on and yo im trying to catch a ride CONT’D NEXT PAGE Urban Redevelopment Cont’d Song: Welcome to DC Artists: Mambo Sauce Song: But Anyway Artist: Tarica June

“Chris we aint dancing to no serious songs” Today’s a good day Welcome to dc! Sorry for trying to keep communities strong know it’s finna be sweet You know where you're at, See they be plotting on the low low I’m listening to Dom on Kennedy street The USA Cap remembering the west coast where the energy’s sweet Playing us like polo You're taking this lightly I did my yoga this morning so my memory’s peaked Treating us like backstar and take us out the photo Stop taking this lightly but anyway, off-grid shit, nothin to tweet And replace us with a man, like a European Now how you gone act the city’s still filling up with those who dance -off beat Rock ports in this weather that’s what I’m bruised hands Oh you gone be right back more than a hundred forty characters and all of em weak Well we gone be right here We gotta make a plan, take a stand they walk by, low eye, act like they can’t speak We gone be right here (x2) Spread it word of mouth they walk dogs–when I say that I don’t mean their feet Welcome to Dc Support these black restaurants and not the freaking car- that’s cause they scared of their neighbors, them they Dc, the home of Chuck Brown ryouts don’t wanna meet Oh you don't know the sound? Oh you chilling watching your hood ride by but anyway, this is third generation for me Well let me break it down my parents and my grandparents all from DC And hear the feds singing “ba da duh da da The G-O the G-O so I feel like I notice things other folks can’t see Cuz they loving it The M-A-M-B-O And like I represent things other folks can’t be Love to jack you for your ears See though, and I remember Take a We been pumping crank since an embryo, all Black on the green line Really though. Then we there and all the kids had jobs in the Summertime It's the city where the people hold the power, Out our residence till we reinvent say what you want about Barry, but he cared for the poor And you can see 9 dimes every half an hour, Another u street on the renaissance and that ain’t who these new fools working for Where lunchin and Jo is the Lingo, Until they do it again I tell em, “That aint who these new fools workin for” And brothas rob, so aint nobody Take what we did and run with it they tryna kick us all out and just build more stores Rockin Mink Coats. [HOOK] Now we are the dreamers, the bakers, creative innovators Take ya back to the madness hats or how, but anyway, i could go on forever But look at where they place us, repay us The city renamed cigarettes jacks or how, bout all of the bull For land that they summoned us from Even the mayor had a run in with Crack, that I’m tryna make better Its urban redevelopment son But we all kept it real and we voted him back. or even about me and the twenty first letter But, we got no stars that Spit on bars, I feel like I know you Like BET wasn't birthed in our backyard Hook (x2) even though we ain’t together So are N-E-G our Essence and our Backyard live forever And Junkyard got us all goin hard. Time and time again I see new people moving on the block ok, you gettin money You know where you're at, And all of a sudden we get frequent visits from the cops well I’m gettin piece of mind that you can’t take from me The USA Cap so I feel I’m doing fine and as long as I love me The hot spots known for fat sacks and white rocks You're taking this lightly I follow my own signs and the world can’t judge me It slows down to a trickle until the flow stops Stop taking this lightly pretty or ugly. Think way back, could you see – what u street could it be Now how you gone act and now these speed cameras send me pictures in the mail The way it was in 93 and now it pulled a 180 Oh you gone be right back I hate this city sometimes, but oh well… This way is new to me its not the same community Well we gone be right here what can I do? pay the damned ticket We gone be right here (x2) We see projects and carryouts and they see opportunity think it’s unconstitutional but I don’t picket We aint going Nowhere We spend money and they hoard it there’s other battles, other cages to rattle Welcome to Dc We live culture they record it, we sell it they import it they still lockin us up and tryna herd us like cattle I'm from the city the district, We smoke it and they snort it I talk about it cuz nobody else tattles I own up to it. they takin juveniles to Iowa, sayin that’ll When crimes happen they report it when we see it we ignore But right now I gotta real big bone to pick. teach em it When this industry gone let us get some ownership? but it won’t. Didn’t know what we had and now a days we cant afford it We gotta take it huh? I swear on everything this system is a joke, not rehabilita- Back then they were fleeing like we wasn’t human beings Well we own it then. tion Dc wasn’t the place to be in This aint a hit and run, and it’s not about hope No were not an accident. Brothers killers just OD’ing it’s about the corporations, More like a hit and hold No black business just Korean ten dollar soap Sorta like we tacklin. After flights by European couldn’t believe what we were see- and ten dollars for ten minutes on the phone till you broke And we crank so hard cause we be praticin ing where they recording every single word that you spoke And this I just the beginning slim, they probably ignoring every single word that I wrote All argue and no agreeing We just scrimmaging, So cause if I ain’t burn it down I was only blowin smoke Now were such a different town buildings sprout out of the Lace up ya Nike boots and pass with the Timberlands'. [HOOK] ground Where them brothers off the boat like they Gilligan, Today’s a good day, no suits to meet What was lost now is found 500 mil for a pension bound What a condition that we livin in I’m walking, wishing on stars and kicking trash in the street And they think that im a clown but I peep whats going down Got us Fightin over land that aint ours like Cowboys and I’m passing liquor stores, churches, they both selling Indians They haven’t killed poverty they just moving it around dreams So football, yup People flowing like a fountain 600,000 and counting a Carry-Out on every corner, they don’t need triple beams Cowboys and Indians While our problems keep mounting we do nothing but keep to kill us all And politics, yup poutin nah, they’ll do that with the wings (chicken) Cowboys and idiots. a man selling Street Sense in a wheelchair sings Maybe a few people shoutin But much love to VA and MD I give him a dollar, but I know that he wants change Cuz all our people really want to do is keep on bouncing That's why the new dc is the DMV. and not the kind that jingles but the kind that’ll take the You know where you're at, pain The USA Cap the kind that Obama aint bring You're taking this lightly I pray I’ll one day look back and say we all overcame Song: Devitalize Artist: Chain & the Gang Stop taking this lightly I came so far still a space remains Now how you gone act the finish line ain’t even in range, I maintain Yeah you can do construction Oh you gone be right back focus, I hope this helps Well we gone be right here Man I’ll do destruction I hope that we all ain’t only out for self We gone be right here (x2) I wanna devitalize the city still I hope that you will never doubt yourself

I wanna devitalize the air know you can do anything you wanna do, yourself Welcome to Dc I wanna devitalize just about everywhere and that’s real Truth is this, this here is proof Thiers (keep it down) will go on forever …bout all of the bull-shit I be tryna make Room to take it up a few gears, give us a few years better Rip, bite, shred, tear just about everywhere Let us test some ears or even about me and the 21st letter I feel like I know you I wanna peel the paint, rust the rails We'll be a brand new best of theirs, eventhough we ain’t together Close everything so nothings for sale Scoring a hundred on ya questionnaires live forever I want the middle class to feel alone Cause if the question is, "is we the truth?" okay, you gettin money Then check the Yea Like strangers in their own home well I’m getting peace of mind that you can’t take from me Cause if you check the No, Rip, bite, shred, tear just about everywhere so I feel I’m doing fine and as long as I love me Somebody better check the air I wanna devitalize the city (keep it down) I follow my own signs and the world can’t judge me But check the water cause there's something in it Devitalize the city And anyway, I’m just speaking from my heart We can't afford to be bush there's only one in the district I wanna peel the paint, rust the rails eventhough the industry is tryna keep us apart We aint goin nowhere eventhough my enemies be steadily throwing darts Close everything so nothings for sale Bring down real estate I’mma make it to the end, man I said it from the start Yeah, going second rate so play your part and your position Yeah youre gonna have drive real far pen and paper’s like the pots when I’m cookin in the kitch- Yeah im gonna close down the cool bar en All your food is in a box if I serve it up hot, know the people gon listen All the gates are gonna be locked gon give it all I got, I’m the link that was missing Yeah the city will be poorly kept up no more wishing And all the politicians are gonna be corrupt cause I’m here Im gonna devitalize vibratin off love Shut it down, get out not the frequency of fear I’mma keep it right there and watch the hate disappear Everybody – just go home everyday is my year get that sh*t clear.