Down The Backstreets (feat. Lonnie Liston Smith)

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

I'm walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

I be walking down the backstreets

Yo, here goes some info on my flow and how I move

To a def groove, I keep my rep smooth

On the down low, I travel with my mind to the streets

Concrete, like the gravel, I'm in deep

So I gotta hit ya from a real perspective

'Cause anyone that's talking that crap will surely get his

I'm not the one to act flashy

'Cause man, where I be at, we don't have to be classy

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

I be walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

I be walking down the backstreets

Check it, stupid

Why you out there on the main streets, fronting

Your game's weak, so I'm hunting you down, clown

'Cause you need to learn something

All that bluffing won't get you nothing but killed

No mission fulfilled because there's others who will

Get jealous, hell, if they can take clout from you they'll do it

So that's what I'm about to do, I'll step to it

And strip you of your pride

And then I'll stick and I'll whip you up from all sides

Or possibly I'll let you slide, son

'Cause you'll set your own death in just a matter of time

Yeah, and I'll be somewhere on the sidelines, you know

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

I be walking down the backstreets

So when you're looking for me, here's where I'll be

I'll be walking down the backstreets in your vicinity

'Cause I been out here for a few

So all that you're doing ain't really nothing new

I peep the way you always perpetrate

You're so phony you make me wanna regurgitate

Since you're riding so high, you're bound to fall

While I stand tall and you don't get no props at all out here

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

I be walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Walking down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets

It's a nice kind of life down the backstreets

Down the backstreets is a mind state

'Cause I don't have to be a pop star to run rate

I been out here observing things

So now I only think gangsters are pranksters, I'm serving

Know what I'm saying?

I'm the kid, come down the backstreets where it's dark

I'ma snatch your heart

So get a handle on life and quit living so trife

Or else we're gonna have to run up and smack all the weak

Illustrated from the backstreets

Yeah, I'm out