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This Is Not The City I Recall (feat. Kenny Allen)

from Restless Natives (Bonus Edition) by The Restless Natives (Kenilworth Katrina and Wes Felton)

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This is not the city I recall
Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

My City got Negus Straight up In A Chokehold
Condos In Columbia Heights
Migos are Going Loco
Poisonous Water In the Schools
Worst Than The Congo
Sippin' On That Mambo
Banging Sticks on Bongos
My Cousins Sick Of Roaches
But they never been those Voters
Only Specializing On heaters bitches and toasters
Hanging rap posters
Flipping capone ashes on toasters and coasters
Scratch that
They don't use coasters
These Youngins feel so hopeless
Feel so voiceless
Chokehold on them limiting their choices
Politicians are Posers
Ain't doing what they suppose ta
Homeless families from Deanwood to Saratoga
You can see it with your own eyes not cause I told ya
Carpet Baggers and all these posers
Spring time Might've been colder
But summers here
Don't forget to look over your shoulder

This is not the city I recall
Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

The city I recall wasn't this at all
Gotta stay alert
You blink a eye and u might miss it all
Wasn't long ago when chocolate city wasn't mixed at all
It done changed so much u come here
Now this shit might piss u off
I just smoke a Jay and reminisce on shit
Stone soul picnic shit
Now niggaz stone cold
They on some different shit
Georgia Avenue day gone like where it went and shit
Soon as the band came on they started killing shit
All the recs got closed down
Fuck all the kids and shit
They give a fuck bout our children too busy building shit
Babies having babies and rappers is getting killed n shit
Cameras in the lights ain't no telling how much the city get
Or gotten in the last couple years
They on they Diddy shit
Day twenty one tickets double but we ain't singing shit
Politicians come in the hood but never bringing shit
But posters and campaign signs
Fuck we Gone do with this?

This is not the city I recall
Melodies are Bitter when you let them fall
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze
Don't let us disguise it with the smokey haze

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from Restless Natives (Bonus Edition), released July 22, 2022

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Wes Felton Washington

Son of Jazz Pianist Hilton C. Felton Jr. Younger eardrums might hear a whiff of Frank Ocean, but area fans know Felton has been crafting thoughtful R&B since Ocean was collecting Pokemon cards. His resume runs deep with collaborations with Meshell Ndegeocello, Ben Williams, Diamond D, Omar, Chris Rock and Prince Paul. Wes tours the globe as a member of The Crossrhodes with Raheem DeVaughn. ... more

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