歌手: Jay-Z
时长: 03:57
Streets Is Watching (街道观看) (Album Version) - Jay-Z (杰斯)[00:00:00]
Written by:Labi Siffre/Shawn Carter/David Willis[00:00:01]
Look if I shoot you I'm brainless[00:00:20]
But if you shoot me then you're famous[00:00:22]
What's a ni**a 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]
*s you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it[00:00:38]
Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass[00:00:41]
This rhyme you're operating on b**ch time[00:00:43]
Y'all *s ain't worth my shells all y'all *s[00:00:46]
Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly[00:00:48]
The type to start a beef then run to the cops[00:00:51]
When I see you in the street got one in the drop[00:00:53]
When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop[00:00:56]
Taking pictures with some b**ches 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[00:01:03]
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake[00:01:04]
Can't ignore it[00:01:12]
Now it's hard not to kill *s[00:01:12]
It's like a full time job not to kill *s can't chill[00:01:14]
The streets is watching[00:01:17]
When you froze your arms[00:01:18]
*s 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 *s running 'round swearing sh*t is sweeter[00:01:25]
Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader[00:01:27]
Everybody want a piece of your Scrilla so you gotta keep it realer[00:01:30]
Kidnap *s want to steal you[00:01:33]
Broke *s don't want no cash they just want to kill ya[00:01:35]
For the name *s don't know the rules[00:01:38]
Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool[00:01:40]
Force your hand of course that man's plotting[00:01:43]
Smarten up the streets is watching it's on[00:01:46]
When the streets is watching[00:01:53]
Blocks keep clocking[00:01:55]
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake[00:01:56]
Can't ignore it[00:01:58]
My street mentality flip bricks forever[00:02:03]
Know me and money we like armed co defendants[00:02:05]
Ni**a we stick together[00:02:07]
Sh*t whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground[00:02:09]
Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around[00:02:11]
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[00:02:16]
Got a face too easy to trace *s 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 *s the message[00:02:27]
I said this 'let's play fair and we can stay here[00:02:29]
I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'[00:02:32]
Ay there's money to be made and *s got the picture[00:02:35]
Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer[00:02:37]
Then hard times fell upon us[00:02:40]
Half of my staff had warrants[00:02:41]
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[00:02:46]
But it was like my conscience was eating me[00:02:48]
Was this a lesson god teaching me was he saying that[00:02:50]
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 *s thinking simplify was turning coc*ine crack[00:02:58]
Ain't a whole lot of brain to that[00:03:00]
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[00:03:05]
In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot[00:03:08]
Got my transporter take it across the border then stop[00:03:11]
To set up shop with a quarter of rock[00:03:13]
Here's the plan[00:03:15]
For three straight weeks *s slaughtered the block[00:03:16]
But you know the game is food it f**ked up me and my dudes[00:03:19]
One drought can wipe a ni**a out faster than the cops[00:03:21]
And this unstable way of living just had to stop[00:03:24]
Half of my *s got time we done real things[00:03:26]
By '94 became the subject of half of y'all *s rhymes[00:03:29]
Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my sh*t[00:03:32]
But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this sh*t[00:03:34]
The life and times of a demonic mind excited with crime[00:03:37]
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind[00:03:39]
I figured sh*t 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[00:03:44]
The mind state of a ni**a who boosted the crime rate[00:03:47]
So high in one city they send national guards to get me[00:03:50]