NYCHA United (6min Mix) Video - Video

Instrumentals used [The Champ] [Aria Caeli] [Family] & [Natural]
Lyrics:
Junk mail in a building lobby, propaganda
Fire hazard, furniture circular wasted
zero interest on a payment plan, back to the sweaty recliner
Statements lost to the incinerator
Costume changes don’t relevant make u
3rd generation like a Savers donation
Living single in a different world, color me bad
Lo mas bago, Tienen ‘Santi Claus’ en el verano

We don’t need stinking badges, translations, transformations
Maybe patience, fuck a paper, middle finger identification
Losses outweigh the basics, stolen bases
coaches always pacing, sign of the Red Cross
Major League Baseball, superstitions over door frames
pan de Cielo, holy water, roach motels, standard issue

Conga lines of em, bring family to the party
they don’t bother knocking, Good Times theme song
IRL sitcom, music traveling in thin walls
Sleepless nights, everything is fucking painted white
dogs and a diamond stepping out, buggin’
Watching neighbors driving land rovers
And one man show, Leguzamo
(chorus)
NYCHA unites us in a blackout
everyone shared a flashlight
Elevator’s always broken
stairwells feel like a coffin

Cuz everyone’s a cousin of somebody dying of cancer
Smoke break and the porch is still decorated
Tu no tiene frío? Watch the closing doors, Dios Mío
Abrigarse bien, quítale eso, lo que tiene puesto
Highway robbery, History never prepared us

Fuck the Romans, Dynastic, greedy bastards
The looters, pillaging, rippin' and the tearin’ meme
Pocahontas, feather wearing in every middle passage
school pageant, deaf, ignorant, clueless parents and admins
History tangent, so let me cut to the chase

Praying on the weak minded, we so scared to death of dying
Bendiciones on arrival, El Diablo buy in
chronological, 667 I’m crying
Taino peaceful, We the people hard as sandpaper
Like Jeans on a line, drying free on channel 9 Godzilla
Killa Dilla Skellys, Kodak Photo Wax decorated film caps
From the middle of a parking lot kiosk

Kia! Karate forms in Korean
Children destined to be or not to be 'em
Rebound specialist, defense is suspect
off the bench small forward so it’s back to the pine
How can one beat memory define
and drive me to deep dive, Then drown in the sorrow
all at the same time

80s were simple in a child’ mind, perspective
Boston Secor, fish tank sharks and all infested
With trash all across the driveway,
Open doors and highways But hot as hell,
some survived it, the BX
2175 freaks on a leash, living on the fringes
Experiment social, no security
Telemundo, Chapulin Colorado, El Chavo del Ocho
Cinco sharpie yards receiving, Siete Nueve

Today’s plaintiff, same bullshit, different dayness
Walter Mercado, prime time gayness
My view of the graffiti train is, a disguise and a blessing
full of Message, cries for help and a lesson

My view of the graffiti train is, a disguise and a blessing
full of Message, cries for help and a lesson
A gallery for the poor and oppressed, yes, destructive
but only on a surface level
Style Wars my bible, the irony, U never saved us
You the pusher, we the roof and the pavement

Coerced sterilization
The explanation was the snow in between the TV stations

Life be feeling like the dog show & the pony
You and your cronies helped define the word 'cacophony'
We good on that alimony sometimes
breakdancing was intertwined with live wires
Somebody blew a fuse and the breaker
Backspin diggin’ in, I’m going Gloria Trevi crazy

We that Titanium, Uranium decay none
Lapiz Pencil, Pluma Pen Every icon of mine
had a dark complexion, Pollito Chicken, Gallina Hen
Intercoms stopped ringing after 10pm
Free lunches was my summer vacation
Bring it in everyone, bring it in
(chorus)

We running out of colors to paint with
Segregation to abortion to brown skin criminalization
Ay yo my stomach in locks
How many rot cuz the inspector general placed it
100 strokes to us it don’t apply
Don’t you dare brush the curly hair dry
Circle of friends looking like United Nations

Still waiting on the updated case files
News cycles define us never explaining
Ur a corporate audiobook reader
You’re hearsay ‘on air’ teleplay
Feeds bleeding us! Pot kettle black

Never had a lot, just trying to get some of it back
Bottled up bottles of blood pressure meds heated
Opinionated scales weighted
Leading to “stop and frisk” Police beatings
Friend of a friend or a family member murdered
Do you really think we look defeated?
Bring it in, LES bring it in
(chorus 3x)

Footage:
Electric Boogie
https://archive.org/details/electric-boogie-greenroom-productions
NY 77: the Coolest Year in Hell
https://archive.org/details/ny-77-the-coolest-year-in-hell_202406
Style Wars
https://archive.org/details/style-wars_1983