Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Backbone
Performer
Joi Gilliam
Background Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Rico Wade
Composer
Patrick Brown
Composer
Jamahr Williams
Composer
Raymon Murray
Composer
Cee-Lo
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Organized Noize
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
One time
SWAT's drop tops and 'gnac
Lil-bitty killas on the block cock back the gat
Can't a day go by one of these villains don't die
Won't try to fight this feeling this concrete thing
[Verse 2]
It thrillin' **** it's killin' for nothing
Meaning **** is livin' for less, I guess
That I'm bring it to you like it I S
The rest you're supposed to know
See crime that get you time to the doors
[Verse 3]
Slick when you hit 'em get 'em but keep your name up out their system
'Cause that there could sure fuck up the rhythm of things
Called up charge it to the game
Now you're sittin' downtown, tryin' to explain
[Verse 4]
Simple and plain but they ain't finna be listening
You pre-trial detain to your co-sentencing
This situation keep you tied in a knot
Lord have mercy on the SWATs
[Verse 5]
Lord have mercy on me
I guess this just how it's gonna be
**** dying daily on the same corner that pay me
But that's the only chain I'm gonna see
Lord have mercy on me
I'm doing the best that I can
But it's hard in my front yard
It's do or die out here, you understand?
[Verse 6]
I done seen these same lil-bitty **** squeeze
Lil-bitty triggers now these lil-bitty **** is lil-bitty killers
Couldn't have been no more than thirteen
Supplying fiends shorties strictly stressing dirty
[Verse 7]
I sit on the porch and watch 'em flee from the police
But the nighttime blind and ain't no eyes on the streets
First law of the concrete, better never ever repeat nothing you seen
He said he had to make a killing
[Verse 8]
That's how it go, oh, he ride and take a living for sure
He say he kill and kill again he'll kick in the door
Keep the lick he trick a milli into more
Nobody with him he so low when he creep through
Ride a glass Chevrolet damn near see through
But they all fall 'cause he learned to walk
But he never learned to crawl, have mercy Lord
[Verse 9]
Lord have mercy on me
I guess this just how it's gonna be
**** dying daily on the same corner that pay me
But that's the only chain I'm gonna see
Lord have mercy on me
I'm doing the best that I can
But it's hard in my front yard
It's do or die out here you understand?
[Verse 10]
I get it in I put the chamber under your chin
I play to win stingy I don't have no air to lend
I'm standing still talking about I'm grill Cee-Lo Seville and steel real
Only millimeters away from my meal
[Verse 11]
Mighty knife, just enough, not inconsiderate, alright
You're contemplating contesting please consider it twice
'Cause I'm connected with the guy left after the drop of a dime
Or roll or roll down a bat wonder what blow your mind
[Verse 12]
I'm heavyweight and Front Street skeet got the snorters geeked up
And they keep running back to the plate
We get it on, get out the pocket, get on the block and get it gone
Raised up off of the factories and then we sit it chrome
You won't show get out the doors even if it's ice cold
And slice O's as the dice rolls
And may the Lord have mercy on your hustling ass soul
[Verse 13]
Lord have mercy on me
I'm doing the best that I can
But it's hard in my front yard
It's do or die out here you understand?
[Verse 14]
Lord have mercy on me
I guess this just how it's gonna be
**** dying daily on the same corner that pay me
But that's the only chain I'm gonna see
Lord have mercy on me
I'm doing the best that I can
But it's hard in my front yard
It's do or die out here you understand?
[Verse 15]
Where this **** at?
Come on, come on, pick up
What's happening?
Damn pick up the phone
Don't ever pick up the phone
Why you playin'?
You already know what's happenin'
Written by: Cee-Lo, Jamahr Williams, Patrick Brown, Raymon Murray, Rico Wade