Ambush in the Night

Graffiti vandals can be hard to catch

It's a huge problem

All out war on graffiti

Two out of every three cans were stolen

Out of your typical neighborhood store

And what happens to the kids convicted of graffiti offenses?

Crime scene colon, these cold streets you patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Krylon

(Vandal squad on my case)

(Getting chased, raided, but mostly getting shit painted)

Crime scene colon, these cold streets you patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Krylon

(Vandal squad on my case)

(Getting chased, raided, but mostly getting shit painted)

Yo, it was me and Super, right, on a Tuesday night

Had green, brown, black, two blue shades, and white

Cosm.i.c stayed home, but BIF crew stay tight

Staking out the steel dragon for a true spray fight

In other words a back-jump

Wishing that we wouldn't bump into them wack chumps

'Cause the lay-ups getting crowded after sunset

Which is cool, but get in line 'cause it ain't your fucking turn yet

Gotta burn shit, can't come up with no lame style piece

If you wanna tame the wild beast

Had better burn, murder the red worm, spread germs in the system

To make heads turn

And snap necks at the central stations

Young kids making cops run like mental patients

Don't they know that graffiti can't be stopped?

Writers unlike rappers can't go pop

So they stay underground till the day graff is legalized

Civil eyes look upon us as evil guys

Though we trod one away on third rails in front of metal giants

Death defiant, to cops we keep lying

In the bushes, ambushes being plotted, clean trains being spotted

Signed like there was dotted

Lines on the sides of the iron monsters

Representing VK mafia, call us bombsters

This is what the detectives are gonna consider a bombing

Where they take a specific chunk of a neighborhood and they absolutely destroy it

Crime scene colon these, cold streets you patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Krylon

(Vandal squad on my case)

(Getting chased, raided, but mostly getting shit painted)

Crime scene colon, these cold streets you patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Krylon

Ay, they just run off like we was teflon, by the blink of an eye, they gone

Didn't fit in the soccer team as kids so they started out wrong

That makes sense, that's why they started to bomb

Behind bars is where they really belong

It's like a lifestyle for these teens, they all wear hooded sweatshirts

Listen to rap music, move in criminal networks

They're mainly from the suburbs, socially dysfunctional

A young graffiti writer, soon a full-feathered criminal

Our chances are minimal to lead 'em back to the right side of the track

They refer to legal as wack

They lack respect for authority, for taxpayers

Their own parents pay this, it's about the papers

They're supposed to be decent yes-sayers

But now they trash like punk rocks and ravers

Hell-raisers, raised by failures and fools

What we need are some rules in the public schools

'Cause this make us look bad and by the end of the day

That's what really matters, the people in charge say

They need the public to believe everything's working all right

What they don't know won't hurt them, right?

I mean on one hand, it's not that dangerous but it

Looks bad on the other

And the voters are stupid, they judge the book by it's cover

Crime scene colon, these cold streets we patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Krylon

(Establish a graffiti police unit to combat the problem)

(Crack down on graffiti)

Crime scene colon, these cold streets we patrol on

Yo, yo, yo, you trying to get a hold on us kids strapped with Krylon

But for too long people believed in your fiction

That graffers came from broken homes with drug addictions

Get the picture, it's a mixture of four ingredients

Kept alive by cats who truly believe in them

I won't be naming them but this one in this time

Is still non-sellout, maybe that's why it's still a crime

How many real graff writers we got here tonight?

Pump your fist for what you believe is right

Yo, these northern light MC characters won't take any shit from suckers

With pockets packed with badges

Still the baddest in any weather, in any season

Whether political or for the fuck of it reasons

Teasing society like a spot in your rear

This generation heroes nightshift volunteers

Crime scene colon, these cold streets you patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Krylon

(Vandal squad on my case)

(Getting chased, raided, but mostly getting shit painted)

Crime scene colon, these cold streets you patrol on

Trying to get a hold on kids strapped with Belton

(Getting chased, raided, but mostly getting shit painted)

(Ay, yo, graff can't be faded)

Kids don't think that graffiti is a crime

They need to understand that personal property belongs to other people

And they don't have the right to damage it