What a collection of sounds this song puts forth. Batiste is no joke of a talent, and paired with Wayne, we get a treat.
Best part of it though, is that it’s such a outside of the box beat for Wayne to rap on in that latter part. It’s definitely not what we’re used to, and it’s Wayne on that electric guitar too!
I won’t pretend to know much about what the lyrics are talking about outside of how it describes The City, but Weezy has a great verse over that beautiful piano.
“Time’s is hard, and the city’s uneasy, been a carnivore ever since I was teethin’, close the shower door on my city, it’s steamin’, I know I’m the God that my city believes in, Amen menage, The Devil been deceivin’ me, hard me on the hardtop, thinkin’ it was easy street, Mama used to scream at me and take me off that scenery, I been about a bag ’cause all I wanted was to be a G, that’s that New Orleans in me, I come from where the demons be, the dungeons and the dragons, I just asked them not to breathe on me, shit get difficult, then get nasty in the easy E, you don’t know what it mean to me, these mean streets, ain’t mean to me, gangster shit, life is a bitch, until she ain’t your bitch, the streets colder than the streets in Anchorage, swisher on my hip, make me walk like my ankle twist”
That’s a long verse to post, but it’s really on of Wayne’s best IMO. To have it over such a cool piano/beat combo is just icing on the cake, if you ask me. “I been about a BAG ’cause all I wanted was to BE A G”. Absolutely great.
I hope you dance through the day today with this song as the soundtrack. Do something fun for yourself. Be good, do good.
everything, etc. 
It’s another bit of Weezy brilliance… reminds me of 6 foot 7 foot when he says, “real g’s moves in silence like lasagna” (because the ‘g’ in lasagna is silent!).
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He is one of the best. I hear something new or go “wow” from a line every time I listen to him!
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