Album Name

I TAPE

Artist

Vic Mensa

Genre

랩/힙합

Release Date

2021.03.26

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

There's a war going on outside
Yeah I
There's a war going on outside
That nobody's safe from
But here in my arms
I'll keep you from harm
There's no guarantee tonight
That we will wake up
That we will wake up
When night takes to morning
But if no alarm rings
you can count on one thing
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah I
I'll be your superhero
When danger arise Ugh
I'll be by your side
You're my lucky dime
Wyclef told me Call 9-1-1
But who do you call
when the ambulancеs
don't come
Or watch as the ones sworn
by law to protеct us
Wrongfully convict us
then call the corrections
Next they bail the banks out
when we in recession
Or hang us in a jail cell
so they could swing the elections
I walk Chicago streets
with potholes that's deep and
Tahoes creep like TLC
Hospital workers in scrubs
with no PPE
But they got money for riot gear
my nigga we dying here yeah
You tell me not to move
with my gun
But we got more funeral homes
than schools where I'm from
And on the news
all you view is homicides
Tell me why it ain't no trauma
units when everybody traumatized
Yeah I
Tryna get on your feet playing
the hand they dealt ya
If your house is not a home
let this song be your shelter
Shelter shelter
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah I
I'll be your superhero
When danger arise
When danger arrives
I'll be by your side
I'll be by your side
You're my lucky dime
It's a hunnid bags
under the underpass
Rumbling stomachs
cups jingle when Hummers pass
Brisk wind summer's done
winter is coming fast
And then they Zoom teacher
wonder why they
don't come to class
The internet been out
the hot water been out
She moved to her aunt's house
then to her friend's couch
Her abuser went to jail
but that nigga been out
Producer was in-house
they closer than pen pals
Homeless in the home
of the slaves
I wonder how that would feel
The manifested destiny
a bunch of land they could steal
Think about Kenneth Walker
and Philando Castile
How they only wanted
to protect they family
While it's niggas out here
that make it worse for they folks
It's a deeper
hotter hell for the worst
of these folks
It's a mystery
we never heard the murder
she wrote
If we finally paid her back
the whole earth'd be broke
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah
I'll be your superhero
When danger arise Ugh
I'll be by your side
I write for my niggas doing life
with no possibility of parole
You playing Fortnite
that's how long he spent in the hole
Live from death row
free my nigga Julius Jones
I had a dream that
Mumia was home
I speak freedom in song
'Cause all I see is racist faces
Where hate lives
and they rape kids in cages
What kind of nation
lynch Elijah McClain
And send us to the Middle East
to die for the flag
They drive us insane
to sell us medication
We demand reparations
and they tell us Have patience
'Stead of cash payments
we get minimum wages
They give us the Black Plague
then send us a white savior
I found faith when I lost hope
That's when Julius reminded me
of a bar I wrote
Behind bars on the yard
where they dream of the street
On death row singing
We Could Be Free
We could be free
we could be free

I know you'll be my shelter
from the storm
I know you'll be my shelter
from the storm
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh
Oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh