[00:00:00] Stick Me For My Riches - Wu-Tang Clan [00:00:00] Written by:C. Smith/R. Bean/R. Diggs/G. Grice/J. Hunter [00:00:16] See I was raised out [00:00:17] On these mean streets [00:00:18] I'm from the projects [00:00:20] Right where poverty and hell meet [00:00:22] I'm searching everyday [00:00:24] To find a better way I've got a [00:00:26] Hustle still to get my pay before I hit bottom [00:00:29] Now some might say [00:00:30] That I'm already there [00:00:31] But who are they to judge or question [00:00:33] What I do son so I don't care [00:00:35] Tired of eating cheese sandwiches with no meat [00:00:38] Tired of watching [00:00:39] All the playas from the same seat [00:00:42] So it's a life of crime [00:00:43] Some might sing or rhyme [00:00:45] To escape the ghetto before the flatline [00:00:49] Choices to make [00:00:50] What am I gonna do [00:00:51] Got to use my talents [00:00:53] They gonna pull me through [00:00:55] Now with success I become a target [00:00:57] They wanna set me up [00:00:58] I guess more money equals more problems [00:01:01] They wanna get me [00:01:02] Wanna hit me strip me of my riches [00:01:04] They wanna cut me up in pieces [00:01:06] Leave me deep in ditches [00:01:07] And I can't take it but I'm gonna make it [00:01:16] Yeah oh I'm gonna make it yeah ohhhhhh [00:01:21] Fight to stay alive [00:01:21] I was raised out on these mean streets [00:01:22] You know where poverty and hell meet [00:01:24] Brothers get jail and life's for sale cheap [00:01:26] Since momma held me [00:01:28] In her arms to tell me [00:01:29] That it's a cold world [00:01:31] I done held heat [00:01:32] And held myself down [00:01:33] Lotta bodies and shells found [00:01:35] And niggas into taking everything [00:01:36] That ain't nailed down [00:01:38] We fell down ain't hard to tell now [00:01:41] I ain't trying to see the cell now [00:01:43] Or see momma [00:01:44] Put her house up for bail now [00:01:45] So I'mma give all I got [00:01:47] To try and get that gwop [00:01:49] Ni**a I'm hot with this hustle [00:01:50] Go 'head and get the cops [00:01:52] I use my talent to get more figures [00:01:55] Unlike these little corner store niggas [00:01:57] Go change your drawers niggas [00:01:58] Now with success and I've become a target [00:02:01] They wanna set me up take me hostage [00:02:03] Or take me down some notches [00:02:05] They wanna hit me wanna stick me [00:02:06] Get me for my riches [00:02:08] They wanna diss me want a clip me [00:02:10] Leave me stiff in ditches [00:02:12] And I can't take it no no [00:02:17] But I'm gonna make it [00:02:20] Yeah I'm gonna make it oooh [00:02:24] I'm gonna make it oooh [00:02:27] Yeah I'm gon' survive [00:02:31] N Y City gritty blocks [00:02:32] Little love plenty cops [00:02:33] Few rise many drop [00:02:35] True Lies semis cocked [00:02:37] Fishscale already rocked [00:02:38] Heavy shots that we drop [00:02:40] New guys on every block [00:02:41] Blue eyes and red dots [00:02:43] Pregnant mothers broke fathers [00:02:45] More money more problems [00:02:46] So hungry won't starve 'em [00:02:48] Work hard and so pardon [00:02:50] I got mouths to feed [00:02:51] I got pounds of w**d [00:02:53] I need some more [00:02:54] Another store another house indeed [00:02:56] An X amount of G [00:02:58] The reason pounds'll squeeze [00:02:59] And strip you naked [00:03:00] Basic trying to make it out the P's [00:03:03] Don't ever doubt a G [00:03:04] And have me spaz like [00:03:05] 'Face with the K and my nose all powdery [00:03:09] It ain't about the streets [00:03:11] It's 'bout the beast within [00:03:12] That won't give in to 'lice [00:03:14] Down to bleed G [00:03:15] Now with success [00:03:16] And I've become a target [00:03:18] They wanna set me up [00:03:19] Take me hostage or take me down some notches [00:03:22] They wanna hit me [00:03:23] Wanna stick me [00:03:23] Get me for my riches [00:03:25] They wanna diss me [00:03:26] Wanna clip me leave me stiff in ditches