Jess Row (born 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American short story writer and novelist.
He attended Yale University and graduated in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years before completing his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan in 2001.
His debut novel Your Face in Mine (Riverhead, 2014) explored racial reassignment surgery against the backdrop of post-industrial Baltimore.
His stories have appeared in various publications, including Harvard Review, Ploughshares,Granta,Witness, The Atlantic, Kyoto Journal and the Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003.
He currently resides in New York City, with his wife, Sonya Posmentier. He is an assistant professor of English at The College of New Jersey and teaches in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is also a teacher and student of Zen Buddhism.
He has received many awards for his fiction, among them a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
[Chorus:]
Niggaz violate I let them [?] with it
I got the magazines and you can get your issue
You can get your hand shut and I ain't talking [?]
Six feet deep your family gonna miss you
[Repeats]
They are coming to your shit this is serious
You must be thinking Juicy J ain't that nigger [?]
I will pay you nigger 20 [?] to keep your [?]
Anybody wanna see you dead they know they are pitching in
All I know is the [?] in your heart I keep a [?]
All my guys all my killer team can be your best friend
You missed a kid, nigger I don't give a shit
Blown if they catch your [?]
[Chorus]
They are coming by your clock let them chop a shot
Nigger should know ain't no good about the world [?]
Nigger should have known act a fool will blow your ass up
Nigger should have known I got some glue to take that lights off
Walk upon your room to get a [?] to cut your head off
You don't even wanna know the gun that cut your [?] off
Want it to your face they're gonna take the [?] off
Don't you try to run they'll pull your gun it's gonna be real [?]