《Streets Is Watching(Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： Streets Is Watching(Album Version)

所属专辑：In My Lifetime Vol.1 (Explicit)

歌手： Jay-Z

时长： 03:58

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Streets Is Watching - Jay-Z[00:00:00]

Written by：Shawn Carter/David Willis[00:00:02]

Look if I shoot you I'm brainless[00:00:20]

But if you shoot me then you're famous[00:00:23]

What's a nigga to do[00:00:24]

When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking[00:00:25]

Waiting for you to break make your first mistake[00:00:28]

Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted[00:00:30]

But my time is money and twenty five I can't afford it[00:00:33]

Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates[00:00:36]

Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it[00:00:39]

Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass[00:00:41]

This rhyme you're operating on bitch time[00:00:44]

Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells all y'all niggas[00:00:46]

Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly[00:00:49]

The type to start a beef then run to the cops[00:00:52]

When I see you in the street got one in the drop[00:00:54]

When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop[00:00:56]

Taking pictures with some bitches in front of the drop[00:00:59]

The streets is watching[00:01:01]

When the streets is watching[00:01:02]

Blocks keep clocking[00:01:04]

Waiting for you to break make your first mistake[00:01:04]

Can't ignore it[00:01:07]

Now it's hard not to kill niggas[00:01:12]

It's like a full time job not to kill niggas can't chill[00:01:14]

The streets is watching[00:01:17]

When you froze your arms[00:01:19]

Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm[00:01:20]

Can't get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up[00:01:22]

Sweet niggas running 'round swearing shit is sweeter[00:01:25]

Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader[00:01:28]

Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer[00:01:30]

Kidnap niggas want to steal you[00:01:34]

Broke niggas don't want no cash they just want to kill ya[00:01:36]

For the name niggas don't know the rules[00:01:39]

Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool[00:01:41]

Force your hand of course that man's plotting[00:01:44]

Smarten up the streets is watching it's on[00:01:46]

When the streets is watching[00:01:54]

Blocks keep clocking[00:01:55]

Waiting for you to break make your first mistake[00:01:56]

Can't ignore it[00:01:59]

My street mentality flip bricks forever[00:02:03]

Know me and money we like armed co defendants[00:02:06]

Nigga we stick together[00:02:08]

Shit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground[00:02:09]

Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around[00:02:12]

And you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found[00:02:14]

Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain't me now[00:02:17]

Got a face too easy to trace niggas mouths got slow leaks[00:02:19]

Had to hire a team of workers couldn't play those streets[00:02:22]

See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me Hectic[00:02:24]

Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message[00:02:27]

I said this Let's play fair and we can stay here[00:02:30]

I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'[00:02:32]

Ay there's money to be made and niggas got the picture[00:02:35]

Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer[00:02:38]

Then hard times fell upon us[00:02:40]

Half of my staff had warrants[00:02:42]

The other half in the casket lay dormant[00:02:43]

I felt like life was cheating me[00:02:45]

For the first time in my life I was getting money[00:02:47]

But it was like my conscience was eating me[00:02:49]

Was this a lesson God teaching me[00:02:51]

Was he saying that[00:02:52]

I was playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back[00:02:53]

Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad[00:02:55]

Was niggas thinking simplify was turning cocaine crack[00:02:58]

Ain't a whole lot of brain to that[00:03:01]

Just trying to maintain a stack[00:03:02]

And not collide like two trains that's on the same track[00:03:03]

But get my life together like the oils I bring back[00:03:06]

In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot[00:03:09]

Got my transporter take it across the border then stop[00:03:11]

To set up shop with a quarter of rock[00:03:14]

Here's the plan[00:03:16]

For three straight weeks niggas slaughtered the block[00:03:17]

But you know the game is food it f**ked up me and my dudes[00:03:19]

One drought can wipe a nigga out faster than the cops[00:03:22]

And this unstable way of living just had to stop[00:03:24]

Half of my niggas got time we done real things[00:03:27]

By '94 became the subject of half of y'all niggas rhymes[00:03:29]

Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my shit[00:03:32]

But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this shit[00:03:35]

The life and times of a nigga mind excited with crime[00:03:37]

And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind[00:03:40]

I figured shit why risk myself I just write it in rhymes[00:03:42]

And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine[00:03:45]

The mind state of a nigga who boosted the crime rate[00:03:48]

So high in one city they send National Guards to get me[00:03:50]