Streets Is Watching
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JAY-Z
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- So what happened with Honey last night.
Her friend was crazy.
- When I kicked out the
car, she was bugging.
- Wus up baby, wus good, wus good
- Wus good, wus good
- I got everything good.
- I got Tims and I got hush puppies.
- (both) hush puppies
- Nah, I take that whole
section right there.
Size 10.
- Let's go guys. Lets do this
♪ If I with you I'm brainless ♪
♪ But if you me then you're
famous what's a to do ♪
♪ when the streets is watching
blocks keep clockin' ♪
♪ Waitin' for you to
break your first mistake ♪
♪ Can't ignore it, that's the
fastest way to get extorted ♪
♪ But my time if money and
twenty five, I can't afford it ♪
♪ Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates ♪
♪ You bought it, I pull
the slide back and ♪
♪ Plan aborted, you and
your mans get a pass ♪
♪ This rhyme you're operating on time ♪
♪ Y'all ain't worth my, all y'all ♪
♪ Tryna do is hurt my sales
and stop trips to John McNeil ♪
♪ The type to start a beef
then run to the cops ♪
♪ When I see you in the
street got one in the drop ♪
♪ When I'd rather be on tour
gettin' a hundred a pop ♪
♪ Takin' pictures with
some in front of the drop ♪
♪ The streets is watching ♪
♪ When the streets is watching,
blocks keep clockin' ♪
♪ Waitin' for you to break,
make your first mistake ♪
♪ Can't ignore it ♪
♪ Now it's hard not to ♪
♪ it's like a full time
job not to, can't chill ♪
♪ The streets is watching you,
when you froze your arms ♪
♪ Wanna test you when your goes warm ♪
♪ Can't get caught with your
feet up gotta keep your ♪
♪ Sweet cats runnin'
round swearin' sweeter ♪
♪ Once you're tagged lame, the
game is follow the leader ♪
♪ Everybody want a piece of your scrilla ♪
♪ so you gotta keep it realer ♪
♪ Wanna you ♪
♪ Broke want no cash,
they just wanna you ♪
♪ For the name don't know the rules ♪
♪ Disrespectin' the game
what you to blow your cool ♪
♪ Force your hand of course
that man's plottin' ♪
♪ Smarten up the streets
is watching it's on ♪
♪ When the streets is watchin'
blocks keep clockin' ♪
♪ Waitin' for you to break,
make your first mistake ♪
♪ Can't ignore it ♪
(beat changes)
♪ Uh-Huh ye-ye, ye-ye-yeah ♪
♪ Ye-Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ How real is this ♪
♪ How real is this ♪
♪ Uh-Huh, uh ♪
♪ Respect this here, check ♪
♪ I'm from where the hammers
rung, news cameras never come ♪
♪ You and your mans hung in
every verse in your your rhyme ♪
♪ Where the grams are
slung vanish every summer ♪
♪ Where the blue vans would come ♪
♪ We throw the work in the can and run ♪
♪ Where the plans was to get
funds and skate off the set ♪
♪ To achieve this goal, sold all my wet ♪
♪ Faced with immeasurable odds,
still I gave straight bets ♪
♪ So I felt I'm owed something
and you nothing, check ♪
♪ I'm from the other side ♪
♪ where other guys don't walk too much ♪
♪ And girls in the projects wouldn't us ♪
♪ Said we talk to much ♪
♪ So they ran up to Tompkins
and sought them dudes to trust ♪
♪ I don't know what the they thought ♪
♪ Them foul just like us ♪
♪ I'm from where the beef is inevitable ♪
♪ Summertime's unforgettable ♪
♪ Boosters in abundance, buy
a half-price sweater new ♪
♪ Your word was everything, so
everything you said you'd do ♪
♪ You did it, couldn't talk
about it if you ain't live it ♪
♪ I'm from where pull your
card and argue all day about ♪
♪ Who's the best emcees,
Biggie, Jay-Z, or Nas ♪
♪ Where the czars evolve
and thugs are at odds ♪
♪ At each other's throats for
the love of foreign cars ♪
♪ Where cats catch cases,
hopin' the judge R-and Rs ♪
♪ But most times find themselves
locked up behind bars ♪
♪ That all ♪
♪ I'm from where they ball
and breed rhyme stars ♪
♪ I'm from Marcy son, just
thought I'd remind y'all ♪
♪ Cough up a lung where
I'm from, Marcy son ♪
♪ Ain't nothing nice ♪
♪ Mentally been many places,
but I'm Brooklyn's own ♪
♪ Cough up a lung where
I'm from Marcy son ♪
♪ Ain't nothing nice ♪
♪ Mentally been many places,
but I'm Brooklyn's own ♪
♪ Cough up a lung where
I'm from Marcy son ♪
♪ Ain't nothing nice ♪
♪ Mentally been many places,
but I'm Brooklyn's own ♪
♪ Cough up a lung Where
I'm from Marcy son ♪
♪ Ain't nothing nice ♪
♪ Brooklyn ♪
