Check out the avenue, New York, New York the apple We grapple in the streets to stack loot and the shackles I'm currently, servin' twenty to life Duckin' the searchlight, no sleep for like the third
The big life is trife, got the young kids Cops shoot on sight, pipe be blowin' through the night The land you ain't fam, there's no pity to chocolate city, ten times gritty
Hittin' hard, liquor's god, niggaz plottin' on the off And come off, quicker than the on the stripper And slide like she up and down the railing Bitch in the range with golden arms smooth sailin'
The tickin', somebody's on the block snitchin' The thickens, phones are tapped, cops listen Too hot for prison, plus too cold to hold my 'Cause I this life and she's my whole world
just a sign of the times Calmly to these lines I'm out of my mind Livin' the street
Aiyyo, aiyyo make me wanna holla way they do my My life, is a carousel one endless night Where most die for pies, some their chrome A percent die for causes not even their own
When the Inspectah be long dead and gone Long live the ins clone they on Til then, I hold a section, I alone no co -defendant Showin' the weapon, this saga had no endin'
It's ghetto heaven and at the time hell shots propel The one that me got chanel In the future by computer, I self tutor The is the simulator, facin' the user
I do it for those who walk the same And no regrets do I hold for the path I No sleep since the intro, the windows I reminisce, with the and my eyes half closed
If I could do it again, I'd do it the same I was through with the game, I'm goin' through it again The life, I'm in it to the limit Couldn't quit it for a digit, die for it I live it
It's just a of the times Calmly listen to these I'm out of my mind Livin' the street
Yo, around the world but just can't seem to leave The state of mind that tangled web I weave my home in the heart of it Movie like Seagal, Hard
Most want no part of it, it's cutthroat party in the shark pit Cold blooded carry bulldogs and oxes, knowledge this Maintain and sane In the cold where the rules ain't changed
Still rebel to society, government be me They probably watchin' me now as I'm speakin' But all I'm guilty of is teachin' you the They got proof, so you know be home before the weekend
The hood life, I'm in it to the In it from the scrimmage, it, lovin' every minute And every hour, 'til the powers be Eventually stress me to the
Y'all the science right? with the intellect Aight, represent, I make it hot chamber specialist from the bricks
It's a sign of the times Calmly listen to these I'm goin' out of my Livin' the street
Street so trife life for life Feels feels like My