Verse 1 Front Street cracked by the old brick block Winchester turn, where the corner boys watch Almyra Street taught me hard and mean Between the cut-throughs and the factory steam Pre-Chorus River Raisin sliding past the mills Frenchtown buried where the blacktop spills Small hood, same faces, same old code Blue lights circling every road Chorus This hood made me Turned every scar into my name Roughest block, don’t fuck around Fierce and wild, that’s how they raised me Eastside kept me standing my ground Monroe cradle, I wear it proud Ain’t no shame in saying it out loud Verse 2 Seventeen eighty-five, cabins by the bend By eighteen-seventeen, new name, same end Same riverbank, same busted curb Same old hunger in the things you heard Pre-Chorus River Raisin sliding past the mills Carried our names through the iron chills Small hood, same faces, same old code Blue lights circling every road Chorus This hood made me Turned every scar into my name Roughest block, don’t fuck around Fierce and wild, that’s how they raised me Eastside kept me standing my ground Monroe cradle, I wear it proud Ain’t no shame in saying it out loud Bridge Forty years and I still know the signs Almyra, Winchester, Front in my mind You can't cage a block that's built like this You can't wash out where my whole life is Chorus This hood made me Turned every scar into my name Roughest block, don’t fuck around Fierce and wild, that’s how they raised me Eastside kept me standing my ground Monroe cradle, I wear it proud Ain’t no shame in saying it out loud Outro River Raisin, carry my name Eastside forever, rough and untamed
