There Goes The Neighborhood

by DJANGO STARR

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Colonization is the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

Gentrification is a housing, economic, and health issue that affects a community's history and culture and reduces social capital. It often shifts a neighborhood's characteristics (e.g., racial/ethnic composition and household income) by adding new stores and resources in previously run-down neighborhoods.

lyrics

Chiefly I think people resented,
after they heard this rumor, and believed they resented feeling that
some outside group had deliberately moved these people in, that they were sponsored and paid by an outside group to do this very thing.

There goes the neighborhood a couple moved in
10 years ago the block was hot but now it’s booming
Property value I mean the shits consuming
Indigenous people unassuming
The shit be like a beast with 3 heads
King Ghidorah looming
21st century colonization what you viewing
Slow down gentrification, remind em with some nightly shooting
Big brother watching like the Truman,
Show, What do ya know
Another house copped for mad cheap
Black Lives Matter until a niggas on your damn street
You steal the culture
Sculptor with supremacy
In awe of The caucasity of nemesis
Put that in parentheses
They really tryna wipe me out
Kill me dead or white me out
Black is fetishized like what’s the hype about
For a baby with some melanin, your only survival route
You know that internalized racism come out in a number of ways
Looking for direction like Waze
But every time I’m out the way, I see my people’s days numbered
Feel I gotta carry the weight over encumbered
It’s finna be a hot summer
Sort of like Bedstuy with Mookie
You sellout niggas goofy
European acclimated house hustling groupies
Am I a Hutu or tootsie?
Gringo or a moolie?
Low class or the one that’s ruling?
Extinguishing the flames or fueling?
Shit all I aim to do is school em
It’s grueling so I’m cooling
Remove em
A yo We got a problem Houston
The chickens coming home and they roosting

Do you think a negro family moving here will affect the community as a whole?

Definitley.

In what way?

I think that the property values would immediately go down if they are allowed to move in here in any number.

Can you give a basis for that judgement?

Yes. We used to live in Washington DC and we saw a very good example of that there.