Checkin' out the Ave.

Checkin' out the Ave. - Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard

Gotta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Living in the big city not just New York every hometown

Has a place where things are known for going down

Where you can learn a lot of things that you shouldn't know

It's a place where people tell ya that ya shouldn't go

All the kids that go dere they end up misled

Cause of a hardhead some of 'em turn up dead

Mothers cry as they identify their child y'know

In the morgue wearing a tag on their big toe

I'm saying listen you should go to school and learn

But fast cash and respect is what you wanna earn

So you stand for days and days on the ave

To make enough to get the things that you didn't have

Getting five for the vial some two for seven

But losing out on your childhood's what you're really getting

But if that's the way you get respect I pity you

Checking out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Living in the big city the big city is where I come from

Not the slums but where poor is many more than none

A young man grows up and then grows to rump

With the girls wild now got a child and he's stuck

Dirt poor hits the block he's selling the rock

Gets nabbed by the cops hits the cell block

Listening to lou rawls while looking at the blue walls

Of a jail cell cause he tried life and he failed

So now the hardest job is keeping a smile

Stay in line for survival in the penile

This is your worst nightmare how cheery it isn't

None of your family or friends don't even come to visit

So you're forced into a line of behavior

Cause you don't wanna catch scars from a razor

And it's your fault you couldn't make it I pity you

Checking out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Checking out the avenue

Checking out the avenue check it out

The city never sleeps I stay awake 247 days a week

Thinking bout all the things that I consider deep

Literally ladies live life lonely singing the blues

And to make matters worse the eye witness news

From anything to everything that's under the sun

What's next a mother using her son for sex

Bad lives battered wives hiding they black eyes

And then they decide their husband has got to die

She's on trial there goes another broken family

Unless she gets off on temporary insanity

Then there's a single mother her man deserted her

Two year old grows up to be a mass murderer

There ain't nobody around that's left to raise 'em straight

There ain't nothing we can do but sit back and wait

A sad life to live some pity me too

Checking out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue

Got ta check out the avenue