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lyrics

You see me and my people in a fancy car
So you think we ball players or a rapper or a movie star
We be working hard grinding for our paper all kind of ways
They say we stole it cos our melanin popping all kinda ways

18 shots for my people there sitting in that fancy car
18 shots if you sitting just playing on your guitar
18 shots when you going out chilling on your holiday
18 shots when I’m in my hallway
18 shots when I’m with my family

I be out here seeing black dying all day
Feds trigger happy when they see it’s not they
Living with no voice men I ain’t feeling okay
They only get suspended leave for weeks with no pay
Living black is constantly watching your back
Living black is when you can’t even relax
Living black is discrimination all day
Living black is systems all against you all day

18 shots for my people there sitting in that fancy car
18 shots if you sitting just playing on your guitar
18 shots when you going out chilling on your holiday
18 shots when I’m in my hallway
18 shots when I’m with my family
Oh no!

See me and my people we been living here covering all kinda scars (Oh no)
The neighbours called the feds on me when I’m walking inside my yard (Oh no)
A woman living upstairs me said your people can’t sit with hers (Oh no)
An old white man told me I should leave cos this land not ours (Oh no)

This is for my people working, grinding, sitting, driving in that fancy car
This is for my people on their music thing playing on there guitar
18 shots when you going out chilling on your holiday
18 shots when I’m in my hallway
18 shots when I’m with my family

Oh no, Oh no,
They be killing all our family ya
Oh no, Oh no
Even when our kids are out to play
Oh no, Oh no,
18 shots when I’m in my hallway
18 shots when I’m with my family
And there’s really nothing left to say
Oh no!

Oooooooooooooooh oh no
Oooooooooooooooh oh no
Oooooooooooooooh oh no
Oooooooooooooooh oh no

I be singing this for my brothers there sitting in that fancy car (Oh no)
I be singing this for my sisters there playing on their guitar (Oh no)
18 shots when you going out chilling on your holiday (Oh no)
18 shots when I’m chilling there sitting in my hallway (Oh no)

Oh no, Oh no,
They be killing all our family ya
Oh no, Oh no
Even when our kids are out to play
Oh no, Oh no,
18 shots when I’m in my hallway
18 shots when I’m with my family
And there’s really nothing left to say

credits

from Anno Domini, Vol. 1, track released August 21, 2020
Produced by Gift Egbedi II
Vocals by Gift Egbedi II
Mixed & Mastered by Gift Egbedi II

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Gift Egbedi II is an up and coming music producer and musician in the genre of Hip-Hop and R&B with influences from boom-bap rap, trap, funk, jazz, soul and African tribal/traditional sounds. He is also the founder of Berijogurt, a music platform to showcase his sounds and music made, created and produced ... more

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