My City

[Verse 1]

Concrete raised me, taught me how to keep my head up

Winters made us tougher, summers made us come together

Every corner got a story, every block a kind of school

We learned respect the hard way, learned to treat the streets like jewels

They only show the worst of us on every evening screen

But they never film the mothers or the coaches in between

The ones who kept us busy, kept us dreaming, kept us fed