Gang Starr - Family and Loyalty
Time: 2:11
I'm destined to invest in urban sections where depression rules
I hope to heal the destitute before I leave this vestibule
Between the heavens and the seven circles

suffering extreme poverty
Heard in 46 songs (27M+ combined views) — most famously in "Family and Loyalty" by Gang Starr.
Updated September 26, 2026
Time: 2:11
I'm destined to invest in urban sections where depression rules
I hope to heal the destitute before I leave this vestibule
Between the heavens and the seven circles

Time: 0:51
Can you please just check again?
I'd become fucking destitute before I'd be your man
There are wires overhead, and there are wires in your hands

Time: 1:03
What I'm quotin' is God's scope and come view the pottery
I blaze by graveyards and destitute economies
Full of thug bones for refusin' to move in harmony

Time: 10:02
I'll never feel your approval till I accept my own
Come from a messed up home, destitute and less informed
About the ways to raise a child up

Time: 0:55
It can be medicine for anyone, sick of abuse
It's what the destitute denizens of this city could use
It can't be kept in custody, I'm done with this interview

Time: 3:07
Hole in this platinum ship of fools, nomadic rule, concept, no rules
Mobile shrine of this destitute wasteland mute
Screamin' at me, winkin' at me, like I love it

Time: 2:52
This child in hate belongs to me
In this heart so destitute
There is a void that's lying stillborn

Time: 2:17
Angel of mercy please, why so much pain?
I cry for forgiveness, I'm the destitute man
Who still remains, it's so hard to explain

Time: 0:37
I don't wanna be in the land
Known as destitute and free
With the grains of wrath blazing a path

Time: 1:51
Grew up confused
Been destitute
I've seen life from many sides

Time: 1:30
♪
Morally, I'm destitute
In the tomb of ill repute

Time: 2:40
You say you want a revolution, you out of your mizind
Your sons' destitute, and their pops all in the prison
My man's back in the jam, he like the back of my hand

Time: 1:46
And the money kept rolling out in all directions
To the poor, to the weak, to the destitute of all complexions
Now cynics claim a little of the cash has gone astray

Time: 1:01
That won't let me let go of the one I swore I'd never lose
Lord have mercy this soul's destitute
♪

Time: 0:44
We work the fields of the masters
Destitute, servile, cast out
Affording no tomb

Time: 0:45
Some might think it's funny
Prostitute, destitute
Love can't buy you money

Time: 1:29
Of the Magdalene laundries
Prostitutes and destitutes
And temptresses like me

Time: 0:20
But she don't know how to fight
She's destitute and broken down
She softly whispers is there no one around

Time: 0:11
Just don't leave me on my own
Desperate and destitute
A shadow of the former self I knew

Time: 0:54
I shied away when you needed me most
I didn't see what I was doing, now I'm left destitute
I never knew how lost I could be 'til today

Time: 1:08
How much I had baby when I had you
I'm destitute this way
I'm doing time living here without you

Time: 0:48
Try to act cute, got his hoofs in my pantry
Frolic through the woods destitute and mad aggy
Brainwashed badly, the propaganda had me

Time: 1:55
In these days, I don't know what to do
The more I see, the more I'm destitute
In these days, I don't know what to sing

Time: 2:40
We were stranded on the vine
Destitute and shaken
Looking for a sign

Time: 1:09
Maybe I am doomed
Maybe I'm destitute
♪

Time: 1:26
With my crew for the rest of you
To arrive to shed the destitute mind
State supplied by life

Time: 0:40
And I need you, baby (to myself), ooh
In times of grief, destitute
I keep to myself, yes, I do

Time: 0:58
without an oxygen tank or wet suit.
Destitute conditions leave fishermen victims of circumstance.
But you don't need a hook for the worms to dance.

Time: 1:40
The time when all forms of expressions of life
Will be so destitute of substance
Bang

Time: 0:45
Cause your totally emotionally abused
Spiritually impoverished and moral destitute
Step right up your table's waitin'

Time: 0:58
This one's for the prostitute
The drug abused, homeless and destitute
And anybody wanting to be rescued

Time: 1:57
When you have so much you think, you have so much to lose
You think you have no lack, when you're really destitute
Looking through rose colored stained glass windows - stained glass windows!

Time: 0:57
A sycophantic pathosis
Removal of the cancer that destitutes life
Once upon the slab it becomes discernible

Time: 0:36
She ran away from home
Her mom was destitute
Her daddy doesn't care

Time: 0:46
Some people pay to be abused
Some people end up destitute
Some people search their souls for truth

Time: 0:47
It's true:
Frontalot's destitute.
I need you

Time: 0:22
My thumbs done froze, can't feel my toes
I feel a little destitute
Wheels throwing water all over my axe

Time: 0:38
That I'm the only one in this room?
Yes, these destitute thoughts, well, they always consume
What's left of my psyche just seconds too soon

Time: 1:51
Attitude that came outta struggle
Destitute but I make it hopeful
You real but my real is tenfold

Time: 1:08
Passed down from father to son
Hopeless and destitute
Destroyed my gratitude

Time: 0:20
Dark drive down the five at 75
I am destitute and stranded
Sense to be made, I am afraid

Time: 0:40
And frozen beneath the ground
And the destitute and isolated
Have all been forgotten

Time: 2:33
decrepit intellect
Lost in destitute
spirituality

Time: 0:51
Were always on my mind
Destitute and getting older
You were fucked up I was sober

Time: 1:59
We're laughing in the face of imminent death
Flaunting our riches to the destitute
The power lines hang too low around here

Time: 2:32
♪
We were star-crossed, we were destitute.
Our words spoke mass destruction.
