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The Streets Is Watching
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Jay-Z
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Gee-gee-geyeah
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Baby, watchin, streets
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Uh-huh uh huh uh
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You don't have to look
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Uh-huh uh
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The streets is watching
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Check it, check
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Uh-huh uh, check
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Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless
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But if you shoot me, then you're famous -- what's a *gga to do?
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When the, streets is watching, blocks keep clocking
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Waiting for you to break, make your first mistake
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Can't ignore it, that's the fastest way to get extorted
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But my time is money, at twenty-five, I can't afford it
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Beef is sorted like Godiva, chocolates
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N*ggaz you bought it, I pull the slide back and cock it
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Plan aborted, you and your mans get a pass
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This rhyme, you're operating on f*ck time
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Y'all *ggaz ain't worth my shells, all y'all *ggaz
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tryin to do is hurt my sales, and stop trips to John McNale
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The type to start a beef then, run to the cops
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When I see you in the street got, one in the drop
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Would I rather be on tour getting a, hundred a pop
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Taking pictures with some b*tches, in front of the drop
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The streets is watching
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[*chorus*]
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When the, streets is watching
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Blocks keep clocking
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Waiting for you to break, make your first mistake
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Can't ignore it
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Now it's hard not to kill *ggaz
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It's like a full time job not to kill *ggaz, can't chill
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the streets is watching you, when you froze your arms
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N*ggaz wanna test you and your gun goes warm
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Can't get caught with your feet up, gotta keep your heat up
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Sweet *ggaz running 'round swearing sh*t is sweeter
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Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader
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Everybody want a piece of your scrilla, so you gotta keep it realer
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Kidnap *ggaz wanna steal ya
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Broke *ggaz want no cash, they just wanna kill ya
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for the name, *ggaz don't know the rules
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Disrespectin the game, want you to blow your cool
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Force your hand, of course that man's plottin
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Smarten up, the streets is watching, it's on
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[*chorus*]
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My street mentality flip bricks forever, know me and money
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we like armed co-defendants, *gga we stick together
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Sh*t whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
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Hustle harder to see if indictment time came around
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Now you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found
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Put in twenty-four hour shifts but, that ain't me now
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Got a face too easy to trace, *ggaz mouths got slow leaks
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Had to hide between my workers, couldn't play those streets
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She got his face like Mercury you jerkin me? Hectic
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Had to call upon my wolves to send, *ggaz the message
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I said this: 'Let's play fair and we can stay here
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I'm trying to transform you Boyz II Men like daycare'
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Hey there's money to be made and, *ggaz got the picture
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Stopped playing with my paper and, we got richer
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Then hard times fell upon us, half of my staff
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had warrants, the other half, in the casket lay dormant
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I felt like life was cheating me, for the first time
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in my life I was getting money but it was like my concious was eating me
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Was this a lesson God teaching me? Was he saying that?
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I'm playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back
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like bad coke, pimp or die, was my mindframe bad
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Was *ggaz thinkin simplify was turning cocaine crack?
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Ain't a whole lot of brain to that, just trying to maintain a stack
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and knock a lot like two trains that's on the same track
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'Fore I get my life together like the oars I bring back
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In the bottom of the pot where no, water gets hot
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Got my transporter take it 'cross the border then stop
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Set up shop with a quarter of rock, here's the plan
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For three straight weeks, *ggaz slaughtered the block
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But you know the game is 'lluted, f*cked up me and my dues
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One drop can wipe a *gga out, faster than the cops
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and this unstable way of living just, had to stop
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Half of my *ggaz got time, we done real things
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By ninety-four became the subject of half of y'all *ggaz rhymes
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Public apoligies to the families of those caught up in my street
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But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in the streets
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The life and times of a demonic mind, excited with crime
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And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
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I figured, 'Sh*t why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
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And let you feel me, and if you don't like it then fine'
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The mindstate, of a *gga who boosted the crime rate
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so high in one city they send National Guards to get me
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Ya dig?
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The streets
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Jay-Z The Streets Is Watching
JAY-Z - Streets Is Watching
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