[Verse 1]

I’m coming out guns blazing

I’m givin’ you what you cravin'

This crown on top of my town while they campaign gentrification

Makin' Jersey City yours when it was mine to begin with?

Put up another tower while our lives get diminished

I watch politicians go on stage and lie every minute

And when we die they justify it with the crimes we committed

I'm refusing standing by to live my life as a witness

I'll take my music and use it for the community business

That's why every show I throw I'mma give it to charity

Money clouds up the mind and steers away from the clarity

So I want Fulop to pull up and show his face in Greenville

And tell us politicians don't go bury their head in green still

While downtown's rising

This weather be energizing

I'm not lying I'll be the next face to end up dying

Cause In my spot the sound of a gunshot is yo alarm clock

And you ain't promised nothing walking home alone on my block

[Hook]

Cause The summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

And that's just a thought of mine

Wooh!

I said the summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

And that's just a thought of mine

Wooh!

[Verse 2]

So you can catch me at the liquor store

And ask me what I'm sipping for

I had the hardest week at work but you know we still living poor

Yeah we've been ignored

Jersey all across the board

So keep an extra brew on deck so we can pour one on the floor

Pour one to the floor

For those that we lost in the war

Cause today's obituaries gone up from the week before

Cause the summer is slaughter time

And it's just a thought of mine

That the city's division has just gone and brought up the crime

Bring it up downtown, gentrifiers get livid

Must be nice to call us liers when you're living in privilege

And then ignore somebody's problems just because you're not facin 'em

And then have the nerve to cut me off when we talking bout racism

But yet here I am at a bar on Newark Avenue

Buying drinks with the crew from the people who wanna laugh at you

The jokes on me, cause the people will never see

The life we're forced to lead when born into poverty

[Hook]

Cause the summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

And that's just a thought of mine

Wooh!

I said the summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

The summer is slaughter time

And that's just a thought of mine

Wooh!

[Outro]

The summer is slaughter time, the summer is slaughter time, the summer is slaughter time, blah blah blah

So what are you gonna do? Get angry at every new person and business that enters your city

Until you boycott yourself into nothingness? Ohhh! Your home is gone and at this point you're just digging

Your own grave with it. A noble act.... if anybody gave a fuck. So catch up and stop driving everybody away

Before you end up all by yourself or is that what you want?