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Midwest

from What's Good by Jay Floyd

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lyrics

Alabama to ohio with the devil right behind em
Devil was here when he got here didn't have to find em
Heaven help us goddamn make em wanna scream that
Medger Evers shot down sing it in a b flat
Midwest feel a lot like the north south
We just tryna eat, the townspeople got them forks out
These ain't no boy scouts lotta lies told
Pinnochio okey doke gota our minds blown
Watch the lady with the scale with the blindfold
I bet that She can see through that veil but her eyes closed
ever read thru the braille it’s an eyeful
They watchin slowly us die through the eyes of an iphone damn.
There's just something about that midwest
Weighin heavy on yo chest like the bench press
We so niggafied they ain't even gentrified
But everybody waitin in a line for demolition time
I guess you like a twist of lime in your genocide
They just want the fists to fly then its prison time
I guess we went from steel mills and the post office
Right to what they used that steel to build man no conscience

So heartless
There's just something bout that midwest
We already got depression boy we big stressed
No direction man DOWN the hood UP to no good
IN the hood they used to steal emblems right OFF of the hood
Yep RUN thru the hood WALK thru the hood talkin
Yeah OFF In the hood it's ON in the hood often
a coffins the measure of hood Cost of the goods
Doctor say I got Dirt in the blood Im from the mud
There's just something bout the midwest
The ghosts from down south always tend to manifest
Ain't No way I'm going out just from old age
They been dripping poison in my veins Since they sold slaves
I ain't really been the same since that boat came
I ain't understand the game until my old age.
I guess things fall apart huh
I guess life reflect art
It was written from the start
We found this place by following a star
There's just something about that midwest

The great migration happened a couple of time but the second great migration sparked after the depressions and ww2 and elevated racial terrorism like the RED summer of 1919.

The way of life changed down south and black folks moved north in droves. A lot of our parents and grandparents came here in the time from 1940 to 1970. They left a place they were no longer welcome into a place that was adapting to welcome them in a predatory way. Projects, apartments and tenements housed us in cramped ways and once we were all in one place Ronald Reagan came along and bombarded us with Saturday morning cartoons, sugary cereal, McDonalds burgers, shopping malls, 100 dollar starter jackets and crack cocaine. What happened next...welll that’s what this song is about...we still tryna recover from it.

There's just something bout that midwest.

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from What's Good, released June 29, 2021

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Jay Floyd is a lyrical rap artist in the mold of Black Thought and Common. He's one half of the duo Rime Royal and a frequent collaborator with Shawn Charles. Jay's dynamic rhymes, versatile style, and electrifying performances have earned him critical acclaim and allowed him to expand out to the world of acting. His talent has no limits. ... more

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