"America's Most Livable City" - Jasiri X

"America's Most Livable City" highlights the city of Pittsburgh's recent honor, despite according to the U.S. Census Bureau, having the highest rate of poverty among working age Black people in the United States. This is the Pittsburgh they don't show when your watching the Steelers, the REAL Pittsburgh.

To see more footage of these poor underserved communities and the Black Men stepping up to provide solutions go to http://www.youtube.com/1hoodmedia to view our series, "Is Pittsburgh America's Most Livable City?"

Here are the links to Pittsburgh being named "America's Most Livable
City" and having the poorest black community according to the Census

America's Most Livable Cities
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/cities-livable-pittsburgh-lifestyle-real-est...

Regional Insights: High black poverty a shame
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10185/1070089-432.stm#ixzz1FvtAzTLm

This is the first of the four video series entitled "The Pittsburgh Press" which was made possible by a generous Seed Award from the Sprout Fund.

LYRICS
Welcome to America's Most Livable City
Please ignore the invisibles with me
See Pittsburgh rebuilt it's economy
But we still lead the Nation in black poverty

Welcome to America's Most Livable City
Just ignore the invisibles with me
And state ya business, cause here the place ya living
depends on ya race and privilege

They call it Clipsburgh Pistolvania
Where block dictators will launch missiles to bang ya
Where hot metal come whistling out the chamber
To maim ya twisting you like wrestlemania
And what's crazier the bishop wont pray for ya
Ya families so poor they can't even afford a crate for ya
And in them skyscrapers Brah they can't wait for us
To move out the hood so they can take it lace it up
Transit cuts a brother can't even take the bus
This is the ugly truth no need to make it up
Then some magazine comes along and places us
As most livable in the USA what?
Say what? Guess they didn't survey us
Cause life is cut shorter than razors where they raise us
Judges are racists and quick to hang us
And police taze us until we never wake up

Welcome to America's Most Livable City
Please ignore the invisibles with me
See Pittsburgh rebuilt it's economy
But we still lead the Nation in black poverty

Welcome to America's Most Livable City
Just ignore the invisibles with me
And state ya business, cause here the place ya living
depends on ya race and privilege

And downtown it's a bunch of new buildings
Glass and steel cathedrals the cost a few million
They make billions to treat a dudes illness
With medicine and pharmaceuticals so who's dealing
But the schools are failing screw children
Just make sure the office has a see through ceiling
Pitt University and CMU killin
classes cost thousands I don't see you fill em
How we gonna get a job in biotechnology
if all we ever learn is survival psychology
and why we so poor if yall revived the economy
but we don't get nothing besides and apology
Tear down the projects and put up a target
then build new homes so they can stimulate the market
But move us out the neighborhood so we can never harvest
the only thing we guaranteed in Pittsburgh is charges


Welcome to America's Most Livable City
Please ignore the invisibles with me
See Pittsburgh rebuilt it's economy
But we still lead the Nation in black poverty

Welcome to America's Most Livable City
Just ignore the invisibles with me
And state ya business, cause here the place ya living
depends on ya race and privilege

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pittsburgh
• Most Liavable City
• Poverty
• Disparity
• Jasiri X
• One Hood
• Black and Yellow
• Steelers

[hstone39]

@hstone39

We need more rappers like Jasiri X.

[toastycake942]

I spent most of my life in Pittsburgh, including working and living in some of the neighborhoods referred to in the song. The level of overt racism and segregation for a major metropolitan area in 21st century America was absurd.

[mapledelight]

Top man jas

[Graclassical]

Yo powerful want to work with you from chicago southside cook county live in pitts hip hop etc violinist call me 7248146941 we need to join forces good friends with the creator of support pitts mnusic you must call me check me out on you tube no hip hop on there waiting for the right people

[phillypa70]

I UNDERSTAND YOUR MESSAGE...MUCH RESPECT!...THE MAGAZINE WAS TALKING ABOUT ARTS,CULTURE,EDUCATION-(COLLAG­E),HEALTH CARE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTIONS!...BUT THAT'S THE PROBLEM,THEY DIDN'T SURVEY CITY FROM A OPPRESSION,POVERTY,AND LOW INCOME NIEGHBORHOOD STAND POINT!!!...THAT'S WHERE YOU COME IN!...TO THE THERE JOB PROPERLY!...KEEP IT UP!

[IceManLikeGervin]

Another great musical manifestation- respect!

[veeseee128]

I agree thier are two Pittsburgs. One for the well to do whitey and his oreo pet ad for the poor. But its like that evrywhere the well off dont want the poor to have a voice. The majority of the poor in Pittsburg is black people.

[veeseee128]

sanfrancisco the second most liveable city? sanfrancisco is expensive as hell and thier is sooo much povert their especially with the black folks who live there. Dont belive me? Go the the tenderloin. Most fucked up ghetto I ever seen. Winos on everycorner, piss trash,and feces on the sidewalks. hundreds of homeless everywhere. Most liveable if your a well to white person or a oreo in the white click. them well off whitey done lost theri mind

[touggie2000]

IM from Philadelphia, and i feel this message!!! dam we need more rappers like this..Wonder whu radios dont play this type of music?????

[evedek07]

Sorry, I use to think Pgh was nothin til I moved down south! You cant get.nothin down south...I accomplished more in Pittsburgh than any other state Ive lived. Truth is I dont care what city u live in, jus outside the nicer areas, their always a slim area...thats any city!

[Terrealimthetruth]

Real talk!

[ChiefNakedButt]

Just saw this on GlobalRev. This is some beautiful, true shit. Thank you, Jasirix.