Yo, brothers and sisters…
Rap this.

Bus stop

Stood a nice boy, hanging. Not at all about banging.
Drive by, let it fly, shatter bone, mother’s cry
Girls and dates, hoops with mates
Gunshot flash, a different fate

To the nice boy, hanging

Bus stop

Fell a broken body, rippled. Hatred made him, crippled.
WAKE UP, fade to black, felt a pulse, fighting back.
Body on the pavement,
panic and amazement.
Spirit screams as
a young man’s dreams
are electrocuted.
He’s executed.

To the nice boy, hanging.

Bus stop

Bullshit, no way. Not this boy, not this day.
Resuscitate his dying life, IV tubes, a surgeon’s knife.
The bullet brings a different life
in less than the blink of the gunman’s eye

To the nice boy, hanging.

Bus stop.

What’s the opposite of fly?
Hanging legs immobilized.
What you think he’s gonna do?
Walk again, he’s pledged it to.

The nice boy, hanging.

Bus stop.