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The West Side EP (2025)

“The West Side” My mentor and good friend was murdered this summer. He taught me to appreciate things while they’re here. I just went to his service and I dunno if I’ll ever really be at peace with what happened, but I’m trying to move forward. I just spent a week in the city and put this together while I was there. Every track is named after a hood on the west side of Chicago. It’s my love letter to the most overlooked part of the city. My love! All love! This is also my first release since I got in a car crash that limited alot of what I could do the past year. Shout out to everyone who listens to this, you da real mvp! Rest easy BC ✌🏽 credits released September 5, 2025 Written and produced by K.Washington. Mixed and mastered at 5236 W North Ave

Garfield

Yea when I walk down Madison/

im like how far is it to the jerk taco man/

im on the wrong street nah it feels good/

the observatory yea that’s my hood/

had a kufi on his head yea I said/

all these Muslims tryna convert the kid/

now all the old heads told me back in the day/

Kenny Gee Kenny Gee this right here was the place/

we would roller skate we would roll to get babes/

n right on that corner on that stoop is where I got braids/

wait wait wait wait wait/

all I hear on the news is it can’t get straight/

all I hear is heartache all I hear all I see all I fear/

got me feeling like there’s the headlights im the deer/

like we like we like bucks fans/

nu uh you know Jordan is our crutch man/

that’s before he was jump man/

game 5 game 6 stunt man/

kids who wasn’t born look up man/

this the pride of the streets see my starter fam/

my collection I rock it/

it’s like an AA meeting in my closet/

don’t step on my 11s don’t step on my 12s/

don’t step on my 3s don’t step on my 1s/

or you gon have to run/

My homie Brad said hey wait/

i got the number to Lupe/

give em a call n see what he say/

dude ain’t answer me that day/

n that’s a true story/

so if you know dude than put him on me/

cuz I know in heaven Bradley/

is making miracles work for me/

i delivered papers up n down the street/

snow to the knees burning in the heat/

brown hand covered in black ink/

bullets even flew start the track meet/

the people that I knew kept it together/

we weather the weather no matter the weather/

the bureaucracy tryna slow us down/

it’s like turtles all the way down/

Lawndale

Martin Luther King used to call this home/

Dr Martin Luther King Jr used to preach here/

used to teach here used to do outreach here/

Justice speaks here seeks here spend a week here/

you ever benefit from the fair housing act/

you got Lawndale to thank for that/

here’s a bat there’s a rat there’s somebody who don’t belong/

the ski mask way is more than just the song/

the juxtaposition of the toughest to ever grace a prison/

and the coolest jazz cats is a mother/

hit the southside of it tacos burritos/

lil village la carnicería en el barrio/

this is our Castillo this is our rio/

flowing through our veins/

dough boy moving weight/

gains gains gains/

Up in Lawndale pull a lawn chair/

we on stoops children playing hopscotch hair getting braided/

jump ropes so many jump ropes patty cake/

my mama said you ugly what you say/

we may be far from the lake but we still live/

what a weird ass concept/

Douglass Park holds more than a fest of riots/

some people think it’s all violence/

what a surprise what a feeling when they leave me alone/

maybe I love that sentiment so I keep mi home/

maybe gentrification can’t get a blueprint here/

maybe this could be ours forever I can dream dear/

got off at Central Park I walked to cermak/

picked up a 6 pack there is no going back/

got back to that stoop I watched my hood bloom/

w it I also grew there’s always room/

Bring the gloves bring the fisticuffs/

bring the tap shoes yea you heard that dude/

bring the beatbox throw down the box/

bring the adidas tracksuit timb boots gimme the loot/

so damn cold always got the flu/

that’s how sick this flow is/

my insides like wtf a Covid/

my insides so frozen I spit snowing/

bout to challenge hogan/

where you steering this is survivor series/

living here’s like wrestlemania/

putting brothas in chokeholds punching craniums/

flowers grow here there’s a geranium/

straight from the concrete ain’t no containing em/

this is insane of em/

life grows here you can’t contain it none/

we break outta boundaries/

no fence surrounding me/

no day could be cloudy enuff to steal my sunshine what a line/

Humboldt

Mi boricuas señoritas señoras/

mamacitas y papacitos blasting Fania in the park i see ya/

domino boards on the corner of division/

they cooking pernil pasteles like it’s Christmas it’s a given/

i been smitten by a misses who calls Kedzie home/

grew up w drivebys sometimes it’s getting sketchy tho/

a veces o quizás a menudo/

yet the love is still fatter than a puto sumo/

we brought Ponce we brought Guaynabo but honestly/

everything is else parking while we grabbing these gondules beans/

mofongo could pass for straight out la isla/

you wan follow siga siga siga siga/

red and white flags w the one star/

look like Captain America you ever notice that dog/

next time you read a marvel comic book know/

the Great Americans really from Puerto Rico/

We tried humble but that’s not our style/

it’s just Humboldt chi town proud/

You know boricuas just light skinned n/

that’s why so much sabor is in every finger/

i rub ice cubes over her body in el verano/

during the parade she flashed me n now she in mi carro/

we were on north ave picked her up got to Chicago/

i left mi barber there early n now im back pronto/

saw another chica sonrisa she slapped me awful/

mi neck snapped harder than that thunderstorm when i grabbed mi poncho/

sabes que i do that to make you mad it gets you hot so/

sizzling w anger got mi spot like a spa yo/

later on when you cooling down in mi high rise/

n I got that ice going up n down yo fine thighs/

looking in your brown eyes touching your brown skin/

getting loss in this indigenous n African/

i really love mid July when you so tan/

then you light skinned again when Chicago frigid/

We tried humble but that’s not our style/

it’s just Humboldt chi town proud/

Lemme tell ya something lemme tell ya something

Remember the park 10pm 11pm holding hands

Recuerda el hombre piragua y pinchos y salsa

Remember Puerto Rican parade Sundays

Los domingos perezosos son mis favoritos

I love you te quiero mucho

Bailamos toda la noche

Me encanta cada parte de tu cuerpo. Desde el pelo hasta los dedos de los pies. Palmas a puntas de los dedos. Tetas al culo.

Eres mi luz guía

Austin

Came thru w that big ass cross/

the power of Kong compels you bitch/

when i spit droughts end n hoes get christened/

When I’m in Austin you best just listen/

it is what it is this ain’t no picnic/

when you cross Cicero you best let them know/

blue line green line pick one ho/

left Herbs on Chicago got edged up/

hit Laramie hit mi gramma up/

hit MacArthurs cuz she told me that she wanted some grub/

so when we here we can’t go wrong/

We go to Austin where it all began/

young man turning to a grown man/

the whole community on mi side/

that’s why I keep it close till I die/

it’s the west side/

Sit on the stoop looking for loot/

talking bout packs spitting these raps tit for tat/

standing on the corner of Iowa for mi bus/

4am I used to take it to move this work I’m just saying/

crack dealers on the corner in front of the crib/

I left the house locked it then nodded/

everybody know each other by name they used to look out for me/

you know them who wore them matching jackets/

snow to our knees long coat packing/

more than Green Bay what they holding stacking/

bulls jacket Jordan 9s no grip I slide/

never fall that’s not how I rock ice/

my vice is mild sauce n fries is that right/

i have a good night at any price/

slide thru north ave at midnight/

those blue camera lights give a brother life/

5236 W North Ave

Now I was just a kid well an adult but barely/

met a man who every thought I had I shared with/

he looked out for me in fact the whole building did/

finally got the support I craved as a kid/

id come here after work I’d come here before work/

id come here during work hell sometimes it was work/

I mentored teenagers n preteens/

I like to think alotta them still alive cuz of me/

I been thru drivebys I been thru fire/

but this institution stayed thru it all inspired/

generations maybe your favorite ball player/

maybe your favorite singer got her start in this basement/

I been fired I been laid off/

I been broken up with I been dragged across/

I had mi name slandered I couldn’t make rent/

I came here got solutions n they listened/

that’s something lots of young people struggle with/

navigating life it’s too much to juggle with/

but I found it this is home/

2000 miles from where I was born/

I have no worries when I walk thru that door/

5236 West North Ave

My lil cousin came n got treated like me/

he n the cartoonist hit it off that’s my g/

my nephew got career advice/

my basically lil brother got advice too/

so now what do we do/

when people get murdered now what we do/

that’s a life well lived when you inspire kids/

who look nothing like you ain’t related to you/

walk on the whole other tracks than you/

but you said dude ima walk with you/

I’ll go to bat w you stand against cops w you/

protest with you no rest w you/

when you hurt I hurt when you bleed I bleed/

we synonymous w each other for eternity/

i live my life purposely/

cuz of you you changed every aspect of me/

5236 West North Ave

I lay my arms here

I let my hair down

It’s like a whole damn town here

We know how to get down here

Love n hate on that corner

Cops say that we just loiter but this is our home man we sort it

Could call anywhere else home but don’t man

This is when slavery ended our hope man

The good the bad the mothers the fathers the dope man

Extension of the panthers of Oakland

The Westside spoken God hisself he chose this

Arms always stay open

We praying for you