Streets Is Watching

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Watchin'

Streets

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Live from Brooklyn

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Streets is watching

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Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless

But if you shoot me, then you're famous

What's a **** to do?

When the streets is watching, blocks keep clockin'

Waitin' for you to break, make your first mistake

Can't ignore it, that's the fastest way to get extorted

But my time is money, at twenty-five, I can't afford it

Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates

**** as you bought it, I pull the slide back and cock it

Plan aborted, you and your mans get a pass

This rhyme, you're operatin' on **** time

Y'all n**** ain't worth my shells

All ya'll n**** tryna do is hurt my sales

And stop trips to John McNeill

The type to start a beef, then run to the cops

When I see you in the street, got one in the drop

When I'd rather be on tour gettin' a hundred a pop

Takin' pictures with some **** in front of the drop

The streets is watching

When the streets is watching, blocks keep clockin'

Waitin' for you to break, make your first mistake

Can't ignore it

Now, it's hard not to kill n****

It's like a full-time job not to kill n****

Can't chill, the streets is watching

When you froze your arms

N**** wanna test you when your gun goes warm

Can't get caught with your feet up, gotta keep your heat up

Sweet n**** runnin' round, swearin' sh** is sweeter

Once you tag lane, the game is follow the leader

Everybody wanna piece of your skrilla, so you gotta keep it realer

Kidnap n****, wanna steal you

Broke n**** want no cash, they just wanna kill you

For the name, n**** don't know the rules

Disrepectin' the game, want you to blow your cool

Force your hand, of course that man's plottin'

Smarten up, the streets is watching

When the streets is watching, blocks keep clockin'

Waitin' for you to break, make your first mistake

Can't ignore it

My street mentality, flip bricks forever

Know me and money, we like armed co-defendants

N****, we stick together

Sh**, whatever for this cheddar

Ran my game into the ground

Hustle harder 'til secret indictment time came around

And you could look up and down the streets, and I can't be found

Put in twenty-four hour shifts, but that ain't me now

Got a face too easy to trace, n**** mouths got slow leaks

Had to hire a team of workers, couldn't play those streets

See outer space like Mercury, you jerkin' me? Hectic

Had to call upon my wolves to send n**** the message

I said this, "Let's play fair and we can stay here

I'm tryna transform you boys to men like daycare"

Ay, there's money to be made, and n**** got the picture

They stopped playin' with my paper, and we got richer

Then hard times fell upon us, half of my staff had warrants

The other half in the casket lay dormant

I felt like life was cheatin' me

For the first time in my life, I was gettin' money

But it was like my conscience was eatin' me

Was this a lesson God teachin' me?

Was He sayin' that

I was playin' a game straight from Hell

From which few came back?

Like bad coke, pimp or die, was my mind frame bad?

Was **** thinkin' simply if I was turnin' cocaine crack?

Ain't a whole lotta brain to that, just tryna maintain a stack

And not collide like two trains that's on the same track

But get my life together like the oils I bring back

In the bottom of the pot, when the water gets hot

Got my transporter, take it 'cross the border, then stop

Set up shop with a quarter of rock

Here's the plan

For three straight weeks, **** slaughtered the block

But you know the game's food if it f***** up me and my dudes

One drought can wipe a **** out faster than the cops

And this unstable way of livin' just had to stop

Half of my n**** got time, we done real things

By '94, became the subject of half of y'all n**** rhymes

Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my ****

But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this ****

The life and times of a **** mind, excited with crime

And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind

I figured, "****, why risk myself? I just write it in rhymes

And let you feel me, and if you don't like it, then fine"

The mind state of a n**** who boosted the crime rate

So high in one city, they send National Guard's to get me

Sh**, b****