Here is another song that is considered Underground Hip-hop. While there are many songs that catalogue the hardships of inner city life, I feel Tru Fam does it with particular clarity. Z-Trip's remix adds some crisp beats and some rather sentimental horns into the mix, giving it a sort of 70s throwback atmosphere. In this song, Tru Fam laments about how he has to raise his son on ghetto streets. It evolves into commentary on the cyclic nature of poverty from an immensely personal perspective. There are a few lines that move me particularly.
1: "reminding you of the kings we evolved from, we didn't start out slaves you got it all wrong."
2: "Its hard enough to survive
when all the rest of them died
before they even reached their prime,
they fall a victim."
3: "I said what up to this kid, the nigga bein' mugged,
It wasn't nothin' I did, he just bein' a thug.
Brothers out here hatin' life cause they fiendin' for love
the last generation's likely if we don't wake up."
I feel that these three excerpts are particular significant and self-explanatory.