Streets Is Watching (Album Version)

Lyrics by：Carter/Siffre/Wills

Composed by：Romeo Beresford & Shawn Carter & Hayden Brown & Jonathan Burks

Uh huh uh huh uh

Gee gee geyeah

Baby watchin' streets

Uh huh uh huh uh

You don't have to look

Uh huh uhThe streets is watching

Check it check

Uh huh uh check

ACLook if

I shoot you

I'm brainless

But if you shoot me then you're famous what's a ******to do

When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking

Waiting for you to break make your first mistake

Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted

But my time is money at twenty-five

I can't afford it

Beef is sorted like

Godiva chocolates

******you bought it

I pull the slide back and ******it

Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass

This rhyme you're operating on ******time

Y'all ******ain't worth my shells all y'all ******ztryin to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to

John McNale

The type to start a beef then run to the cops

When I see you in the street got one in the drop

Would I rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop

Taking pictures with some *******in front of the drop

The streets is watching

When the streets is watching

Blocks keep clocking

Waiting for you to break make your first mistake

Can't ignore it

Now it's hard not to kill ******s

It's like a full time job not to kill ******s can't chill

The streets is watching you when you froze your arms

******s wanna test you and your gun goes warm

Can't get caught with your feet up gotta keep your heat up

Sweet ******s running 'round swearing *******t is 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

Kidnap ******s wanna steal ya

Broke ******s want no cash they just wanna kill yafor the name ******s don't know the rules

Disrespectin' the game want 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 watching

Blocks keep clocking

Waiting for you to break make your first mistake

Can't ignore it

My street mentality flip bricks forever know me and money

We like armed co-defendants ******s we stick together

*******t whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground

Hustle harder to see if indic******ent time came around

Now you can look up and down the streets and

I can't be found

Put in twenty-four hour *******fts but that ain't me now

Got a face too easy to trace ******s mouths got slow leaks

Had to hide between my workers couldn't play those streets

She got his face like

Mercury you jerkin' me

Hectic had to call upon my wolves to send ******s the message

I said this Let's play fair and we can stay here

I'm trying to transform you

Boyz II Men like daycare

Hey there's money to be made and ******s got the picture

Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer

Then hard times fell upon us half of my staff had warrants

The other half in the casket lay dormant

I felt like life was cheating me for the first time in my life

I was getting money but it was like my conscious was eating me

Was this a lesson

God teaching me

Was he saying that

I'm playing the game straight from

Hell from which few came back

Like bad coke pimp or die was my mindframe bad

Was ******s thinkin' simplify was turning *******crack

Ain't a whole lot of brain to that just trying to maintain a stack

And knock a lot like two trains that's on the same track'

Fore I get my life together like the oars

I bring back

In the bottom of the pot where no water gets hot

Got my transporter take it 'cross the border then stop

Set up shop with a quarter of rock here's the plan

For three straight weeks ******s slaughtered the block

But you know the game is 'lluted ******up me and my dues

One drop can wipe a ******out faster than the cops

And this unstable way of living just had to stop

Half of my ******s got time we done real things

By ninety-four became the subject of half of y'all ******s rhymes

Public apoligies to the families of those caught up in my street

But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in the streets

The life and times of a demonic mind excited with crime

And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind

I figured '

*******t why risk myself

I just write it in rhymes

And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine'

The mindstate of a ******who boosted the crime rate

So high in one city they send

National Guards to get me ya dig

The streets