Richard Ferrara  a/k/a RichDollaz

 

I was walking down the street and the dude had

A cigarette and I’m standing right there and the dude just lit it

Me, I wasn’t feeling it ‘cuz I’m not tryna’ catch

The secondhand smoke off the back of that cigarette

    And dudes try to pass me a cigarette I say

 

“Get it away ‘cuz my dream is to be in the NBA

‘Cuz I’m going to college ‘cuz I’m going somewhere

And you’ll be in the streets like a car with no wheels

You’re goin’ nowhere”

 

People on the block, instigatin’, but I tell them

They need to stop smoking the fiberglass insulation

In the cigarettes it got rat poison so that tell it

Right there, everybody should stop smoking

‘Cuz it’s killing our people just like guns

And stabbing people – now cigarettes is just killing more people

See cigarettes is just like weed and it should

Be illegal and that’s gonna’ be my dream

 

And me I ain’t tryna’ die ‘cuz if you smoke a cigarette

What people say that one less day that you die

And this is my advice to everybody that’s smokin’

We should get at least seventy percent to stop smoking

                       

 
     

Richard Ferrara won first place for this rap in the Fall River Alternative School tobacco poetry contest.

 

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