Ice T - Valuable Game Lyrics
[intro: ice-t]This song is dedicated to my man tupac shakur, rest in peace!!Notorious b.i.g., rest in peace!!And all my other homies that have diedIn the madness called street lifeRest in peace!![chorus]Ima straight up g, lets not pretendDedicated to, all of my friendsOn the east and the west coastGotta let this drama go[ice-t]Nineteen eighty six, deep in the mixMe and my team out for cream and jewel-liksThe faster, the better, blood, leather, the baby sledgeCase hitters - me, Im the point manGive less than a damn about anything, just let my hammer swingCome up, give me my cut - what?Girls dont mean nothin to me, dont push the button on meOut for the twist, ya nastically nasty gBasically makin me anti-social individual, too hypeRecognize the type?Then a music called hip-hop came along and saved my lifeI had a story to tell about my knowledge of hell$2.50 for a book, listen and look, now lets do some mathA gun and a hand, plus an angry man, minus loveEquals and me, the skys blue and they ragsToe-tags and body bags - yall feel me?Is it too real g? brothers say drop some heat tAbsoultely, everythings goochie since we realizedThis games the only one we got leftHip-hops become the game of deathSome of yall busters out there tryin to waste upIt wouldve took some of us hustlers all this time to lace up[chorus]Ima straight up g, lets not pretendDedicated to, all of my friendsOn the east and the west coastGotta let this drama go[ice-t]Ok, let me break it down, they got the one strike lawYou go in, you reach the other two before you knowWhat happen to you - games over dudeOn the next page, they got power in effectWhile you two rednecks waitin to see which one of usKills the next brother nextThink about it too longll make you sickBelieve me the last thing they wanna see is us risinEconomically, astronomically it could happen homie - follow meHip-hops the black goal - mind and soulRefined as we roll, another ghetto story is toldI stopped flippin kis in eighty threeThey need a time machine to carcerate meIm square as a pool table, twice as green, know what I mean?Flippin from heat, the legal green, the hip-hop sceneBeef, the only beef I got is the steakIm tryin to eat from the players eliteEast, west, north, south, moon, starIm gonna ball wherever the chips areI hope yall players listen, aint out there hatin and dissinYall know the game is to be sold and not toldI should be takin a collection, this time Ill make an exceptionIve just been here for the start of thisI gotta come from the heart for this[chorus]Ima straight up g, lets not pretendDedicated to, all of my friendsOn the east and the west coastGotta let this drama go[ice-t]Some nights I lay awake tryin to analyseAnd anticipate the moves of the fakesWonder if the cancers in too deep - cant sleepTryin to diagnose the poison thats increasedInjected into a pure hustle born on city streakMigranes fill my brain as I reach toward the realm of the insaneWishin and prayin that another brother getsTo live the life that I got to play inTryin to represent to the fullestI gotta come hard yall, no time to pull itYall fools think illin and tearin upHip-hop is the thing to do g?Im paid I dont need rap no more fool I make a movieYall tryin to lose meAnd to yall suckers with your afrobatic, player hatin taticsTryin to jump over the bree and plannin and hustlinIve been corporatin to this music over these yearsYall will fall victim to your own lies and the p.i.Will continue to rise, over your eyes kidThis games immaculate, dramas irrelevant - stay sucker reppellinInvent, incoporate, parlay, playAnd I got no reason to lie to you[chorus]Ima straight up g, lets not pretendDedicated to, all of my friendsOn the east and the west coastGotta let this drama goIma straight up g, lets not pretendDedicated to, all of my friendsOn the east and the west coastGotta let this drama go
