
Date of issue: 13.10.2008
Record label: Babygrande
Song language: English
Bad/Good |
Yeah, yeah |
Uhh, try to watch your neck |
C’mon, growin up in the X We used to play manhunt, and steal your bike |
Fight off the older dudes who tried to steal your Nikes |
Don’t matter if you’re outnumbered, still you fight |
Put a nigga in the yoke, let him feel your bite |
Livin in the devil’s reach, fuckin girls on the roof |
and call it Pebble Beach (yeah) and even though |
we were kids, we still knew right from wrong |
That’s the premise, for me to even write this song |
And laugh about who ran |
Stick-up kids waitin outside of Jew-man (yeah) |
And we idolized the neighborhood block stars |
At night, throwin rocks at the cop cars |
Shoot a fair one, you might get lumped |
But fuck a fair one, you might get jumped |
Knuckle up, or you might get chumped |
Or in a car seat you might get slumped |
Listen |
«Shit is real!""Growin up in the hood» |
«Done some things bad, done some things good» |
Yeah, I used to, run the streets but always got good grades |
Reminiscin on this shit, blowin on good haze |
We used to dumb shit, growin up in the 'jects |
Gettin head at Yankee Stadium, up in the decks |
You couldn’t hop at one-sixty-first |
And how we race each other, bettin who could push one-sixty first |
It wasn’t always like that |
We was broke and my father always liked smack — what could you do? |
So my moms did the best she could for dolo (yeah) |
Workin in midtown for next to no dough |
I know I put her through shit |
So I’ma smile when I put her in the new six (yeah) |
It’s only right cause I know I used to be a mess |
Did I deserve all the beatings or was it stress? |
Cause I put a few kids up in the EMS |
I laugh about it now, cruisin in the CMS |
Yeah, it’s all funny when I think back |
Sippin Private Stock, but now I don’t drink that (nope) |
Now I’m into mango juice and crushed grapes (yes) |
We used to fiend for them clear Cold Crush tapes (yes) |
And I went from hoppin trains and snatchin links |
To ridin around with bombshells in matchin minks |
This is not rhethorical innuendo (yeah) |
At house parties throwin leathers out the window, smarten up I can tell you a dummy (uh-huh) |
You look soft, niggaz sell you a dummy |
You come back and get wrapped like a mummy (a mummy) |
So you should always keep a pound by your tummy |
And I posess a +Dangerous Mind+ like Phifer |
From listenin to the Gods in the cipher |
Seen a few dudes get a universal |
There’s cameras in the 'jects, live no commercial |
Listen |
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