Jay-Z - Streets Is Watching* Lyrics
Baby, watchin', streetsYou don't have to lookThe streets is watchin'Check it, checkCheckLook, if I shoot you, I'm brainlessBut if you shoot me, then you're famous 'what's a nigga to do?'When the, streets is watching, blocks keep clockingWaiting for you to break, make your first mistakeCan't ignore it, that's the fastest way to get extortedBut my time is money, at twenty-five, I can't afford itBeef is sorted like Godiva, chocolatesNiggaz you bought it, I pull the slide back and ***** itPlan aborted, you and your mans get a passThis rhyme, you're operating on ***** timeYou all niggaz ain't worth my shells, all you all niggazTryin' to do is hurt my sales, and stop trips to John McNaleThe type to start a beef then, run to the copsWhen I see you in the street got, one in the dropWould I rather be on tour getting a, hundred a popTaking pictures with some *****es, in front of the dropThe streets is watchin'When the, streets is watchin'Blocks keep clockingWaiting for you to break, make your first mistakeCan't ignore itNow it's hard not to kill niggazIt's like a full time job not to kill niggaz, can't chillThe streets is watchin' you, when you froze your armsNiggaz wanna test you and your gun goes warmCan't get caught with your feet up, gotta keep your heat upSweet niggaz running around swearing shit is sweeterOnce you're tagged lame the game is follow the leaderEverybody want a piece of your scrilla, so you gotta keep it realerKidnap niggaz wanna steal yaBroke niggaz want no cash, they just wanna kill yaFor the name, niggaz don't know the rulesDisrespectin' the game, want you to blow your coolForce your hand, of course that man's plottin'Smarten up, the streets is watching, it's onWhen the, streets is watchin'Blocks keep clockingWaiting for you to break, make your first mistakeCan't ignore itMy street mentality flip bricks forever, know me and moneyWe like armed co-defendants, nigga we stick togetherShit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the groundHustle harder to see if indictment time came aroundNow you can look up and down the streets and I can't be foundPut in twenty-four hour shifts but, that ain't me nowGot a face too easy to trace, niggaz mouths got slow leaksHad to hide between my workers, couldn't play those streetsShe got his face like mercury you jerkin me? HecticHad to call upon my wolves to send, niggaz the messageI said this, "Let's play fair and we can stay hereI'm trying to transform you boyz I men like Day Care"Hey there's money to be made and, niggaz got the pictureStopped playing with my paper and, we got richerThen hard times fell upon us, half of my staffHad warrants, the other half, in the casket lay dormantI felt like life was cheating me, for the first timeIn my life I was getting money but it was likeMy concious was eating meWas this a lesson god teaching me? Was he saying that?I'm playing the game straight from Hell from which few came backLike bad coke, pimp or die, was my mindframe badWas niggaz thinkin simplify was turning cocaine crack?Ain't a whole lot of brain to that, just trying to maintain a stackAnd knock a lot like two trains that's on the same track'Fore I get my life together like the oars I bring backIn the bottom of the pot where no, water gets hotGot my transporter take it 'cross the border then stopSet up shop with a quarter of rock, here's the planFor three straight weeks, niggaz slaughtered the blockBut you know the game is 'lluted, *****ed up me and my duesOne drop can wipe a nigga out, faster than the copsAnd this unstable way of living just, had to stopHalf of my niggaz got time, we done real thingsBy ninety-four became the subject of half of you all niggaz rhymesPublic apoligies to the families of those caught up in my streetBut that's the life for us lost souls brought up in the streetsThe life and times of a demonic mind, excited with crimeAnd the lavish luxuries that just excited my mindI figured, 'shit why risk myself I just write it in rhymesAnd let you feel me, and if you don't like it then fineThe mindstate, of a nigga who boosted the crime rateSo high in one city they send National Guards to get meYa dig?The streets
