Rasool lyrics

Song information

Artist: Jill Scott
Album: Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds 2

Lyrics

His name was rasool/ carmel complected boy from the 22/ rough on the outside/ but inside he was cool/
Rasool was a king/ but also a fool/
Back on the block again with the same crew/
Tariq from the west side / little john form the avenue /
Always seen 'em bout a quarter to two/ shaking hands with everybody/
But at the same time sharing the blues/ and ooh he passed it on /
Shaking hands till what was in his pockets was gone/
He'd be outside in the cold with his bubble goose on / but inside /
Somehow I knew he wasn't warm/ around 10:30 on that dreary night/
His boyz said they were hungry and
Wanted to get a bite/ now they didn't send a runner/
Rasool knew it wasn't right / but he stayed anyway tryin' to get the chain he liked /
And oh how the shots rang in the streets/ hittin' everybody in the surrounding vicinity / children of children /
One young father to be / and rasool lay dead on my north philly street /
At fifteen years old/ it was the first death i'd seen / but in years to come there'd be many many brothers slained/ tryin' to win at the game/but the game ain't designed for no kind of winning /
And oh this is a friend of rasool/ begging you to think about what you do and who you call your crew/
The very choices you make/ may make a rasool out of you/
Now you don't want that do you?/ you don't want that do you...