[00:00:00] Streets Is Watching - Jay-Z [00:00:02] Written by:Shawn Carter/David Willis [00:00:20] Look if I shoot you I'm brainless [00:00:23] But if you shoot me then you're famous [00:00:24] What's a nigga to do [00:00:25] When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking [00:00:28] Waiting for you to break make your first mistake [00:00:30] Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted [00:00:33] But my time is money and twenty five I can't afford it [00:00:36] Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates [00:00:39] Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it [00:00:41] Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass [00:00:44] This rhyme you're operating on bitch time [00:00:46] Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells all y'all niggas [00:00:49] Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly [00:00:52] The type to start a beef then run to the cops [00:00:54] When I see you in the street got one in the drop [00:00:56] When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop [00:00:59] Taking pictures with some bitches in front of the drop [00:01:01] The streets is watching [00:01:02] When the streets is watching [00:01:04] Blocks keep clocking [00:01:04] Waiting for you to break make your first mistake [00:01:07] Can't ignore it [00:01:12] Now it's hard not to kill niggas [00:01:14] It's like a full time job not to kill niggas can't chill [00:01:17] The streets is watching [00:01:19] When you froze your arms [00:01:20] Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm [00:01:22] Can't get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up [00:01:25] Sweet niggas running 'round swearing shit is sweeter [00:01:28] Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader [00:01:30] Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer [00:01:34] Kidnap niggas want to steal you [00:01:36] Broke niggas don't want no cash they just want to kill ya [00:01:39] For the name niggas don't know the rules [00:01:41] Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool [00:01:44] Force your hand of course that man's plotting [00:01:46] Smarten up the streets is watching it's on [00:01:54] When the streets is watching [00:01:55] Blocks keep clocking [00:01:56] Waiting for you to break make your first mistake [00:01:59] Can't ignore it [00:02:03] My street mentality flip bricks forever [00:02:06] Know me and money we like armed co defendants [00:02:08] Nigga we stick together [00:02:09] Shit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground [00:02:12] Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around [00:02:14] And you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found [00:02:17] Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain't me now [00:02:19] Got a face too easy to trace niggas mouths got slow leaks [00:02:22] Had to hire a team of workers couldn't play those streets [00:02:24] See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me Hectic [00:02:27] Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message [00:02:30] I said this Let's play fair and we can stay here [00:02:32] I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare' [00:02:35] Ay there's money to be made and niggas got the picture [00:02:38] Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer [00:02:40] Then hard times fell upon us [00:02:42] Half of my staff had warrants [00:02:43] The other half in the casket lay dormant [00:02:45] I felt like life was cheating me [00:02:47] For the first time in my life I was getting money [00:02:49] But it was like my conscience was eating me [00:02:51] Was this a lesson God teaching me [00:02:52] Was he saying that [00:02:53] I was playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back [00:02:55] Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad [00:02:58] Was niggas thinking simplify was turning cocaine crack [00:03:01] Ain't a whole lot of brain to that [00:03:02] Just trying to maintain a stack [00:03:03] And not collide like two trains that's on the same track [00:03:06] But get my life together like the oils I bring back [00:03:09] In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot [00:03:11] Got my transporter take it across the border then stop