Lighters Up

I come from Bed-Stuy

Where **** either do or they gon' die

Gotta keep the ratchet close by

Someone murdered, nobody seen, nobody heard it

Just another funeral service

**** will get at you

Come through shinin', they yap you

In broad daylight kidnap you

Feds get clap too

Police stay on us like tattoos

**** only grind 'cause we have to

Money is power

Sling crack, weed, and powder

Fiends come through every hour

It's all about that dollar

And we no deal with cowards

Weak lamb get devoured by the lion in the concrete jungle

The strong stand and rumble, the weak fold and crumble

It's the land of trouble

Brooklyn, home of the greatest rappers

BIG comes first then the queen comes after

Now put your lighters up (Bed-Stuy)

Put your lighters up (New York)

Put your lighters up (D.C.)

Keep putting your lighters up (Philadelphia)

Put you lighters up (Detroit)

Put your lighters up (Chi-Town)

Keep putting your lighters up

No matter where you from, put your lighters up

Now let me give you a walk through

Show you what to do and you don't do

Where it's not safe to go to

Them boys approach you, better say quick who you close to

Don't come through if **** don't know you

'Cause people is talkin', the streets is watchin'

The Ds is lurkin', stash the Nine in the garbage

The life of a hustler, the life of a gambler

Dice game kill more **** than cancer

You know who you fuck with

Brooklyn don't run, we run shit

Roll up and just bum rush shit

We don't play that out in BK, not at all

Gor pound leave your face on the wall

R-I-P in memory of

Never show thy enemies love

We get it on where we live

You better have a pass when you cross that bridge

Welcome to Brooklyn

Put your lighters up (LA)

Put your lighters up (VA)

Put your lighters up (Texas)

Keep putting your lighters up (New Orleans)

Put your lighters up (St. Louie)

Put your lighters up (ATL)

Keep putting them lighters up

No matter where you from, put your lighters up

Damn, homie, I'm so tore

And I don't think I'm ever gon' smoke no more

And I don't think I'm ever gon' drink no more

But fuck it, bartender, you can give me one more

(We in the club like)

Damn, homie, I'm so tore

(Lightin' the dutch like)

And I don't think I'm ever gon' smoke no more

(Passin' the cup like)

And I don't think I'm ever gon' drink no more

(Back at the bar like)

But fuck it, bartender, you can give me one more

See, BIG done told you, I'm the hottest bitch on the planet

Biggest sex symbol since Janet, the Zanotti bandit

Layin' in the cut like a bandage

Come through Fulton St. in the vanquish

Doin' them damage

And if you don't understand it

Then let me give it to you in Spanish

Soy la señorita mas linda del barrio

Y lo es hago afuera de espacia

Still over in Brazil, sippin' moscato

You must have forgot though

So I'ma take you back to the block, yo

Put you on to how we rock, yo

Some are boostin', 12 year olds prostitutin'

Hitmen hired for execution, there's no solution

**** still piss in the hallways

Fiends get high on 'em all day

The youth, them bang at the cops off the roof

You don't know my town is the truth

Welcome to Brooklyn

Now put your lighters up (New Jersey)

Put your lighters up (Boston)

Put your lighters up (B-More)

Keep putting your lighters up (Miami)

Put your lighters up (Puerto Rico)

Put your lighters up (Kingston, Jamaica)

Keep putting them lighters up

No matter where you from, put your lighters up

Damn, homie, I'm so tore

And I don't think I'm ever gon' smoke no more

And I don't think I'm ever gon' drink no more

But fuck it, bartender, you can give me one more

(We in the club like)

Damn, homie, I'm so tore

(Lightin' the dutch like)

And I don't think I'm ever gon' smoke no more

(Passin' the cup like)

And I don't think I'm ever gon' drink no more

(Back at the bar like)

But fuck it, bartender, you can give me one more

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