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Part Of You Now (featuring Jarmaine Tubbs)

from To Mock A Killingbird by Kris "Odub" Hampton

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A coming of age story in small town America, where everyone knows everyone. Sometimes a childhood with potholes can be the best launching pad. Featuring Jarmaine Tubbs. Beat by Ill Poetic for the album "To Mock A Killingbird".

lyrics

[intro]
Yeah
Come here
Take my hand
Walk with me

[verse 1]
Can you look further, past the grimy veneer?
This patina has seen a lotta bad years
Sadness, tears, madness, fears
Lets scrape it all clear, see what's under here
I'm at 2nd and Evans, it only stretches 7
Blocks (It's the whole world to me)
Like directly from heaven, a gift I was given
It's dirty (It looks like a pearl to me)
And certainly, I'm not alone
There's 14 of us at the bus stop call this home
So no matter where the bus drops me today
Back here is where I find my way. (C'mon follow me)

[hook]
No matter where you stop when you leave this block
You not gonna forget how hard you fought
Even when it makes you proud of what you not
It's part of you now

And no matter what you keep when you leave these streets
You'll take victory, you'll take defeat
You've heard and seen everything you need
It's part of you now

[verse 2]
There's somethin about this place it must just be the spirit
Listen close, maybe you could hear it
In the rhythm of the kickball game goin on in the street
Neighborhood hide em and go seek
1st Street part, basketball courts
Girl you're a lil young to be wearin those shorts
Watch your back around the dudes hangin by the corner store
The gang who ain't sure what they still bangin for
Old man Dan-Dan, the pop bottle man, he's harmless
He's just tryin his hardest, still he's homeless
And I don't know if it's dope he's on but he's hard not to notice
You could probably find that size kicks you been watchin for
At Laswell's, that what he goes to the auction for
So he could sell you a pair of shoes for 50 cent
Make you proud of how your money was spent, now

[hook]

[bridge]
It's the park, the lights
The dark, the nights
We start the fights
With heart despite
What's wrong, what's right?
This song just might
Belong, if I could get my mind just right.

It's the park, the lights
The dark, the nights
We start the fights
With heart despite
What's wrong, what's right?
This song just might
Belong, if I could get my mind just right.

[verse 3]
They say it ain't where you from it's where you at
I say it ain't what you wear, it's what's under your hat
And when you start with facts and then your sun went black
Use the spark of imagination to counteract
You bouncin back, in the 88 Regal, bumpin
Trunk on rattle tryin to show these people somethin
6 Vanillaroma trees on the rearview
Usin what you left behind you to steer you.

[hook]

credits

from To Mock A Killingbird, released March 23, 2015
Beat by Ill Poetic
Written by Kris Hampton
Performed by Kris Hampton and Jarmaine Tubbs

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Kris "Odub" Hampton Cincinnati, Ohio

Hiphop head since 1984. Bboy since 1985. Hiphop maker since 1990. The rest is history.

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