Lay Low

Paris - Laylow

It's my hood I been living here for 17 years

Boy I done got jumped my car done got shot up

I done got shot at I been to jail 3 fo' times

I want parents to simply wake up

To take responsibility for our own kids

It's time to take action

It's time to wake up and stop sleeping

Peace what's happening rookie

It's been a while since I been gone just trying to fall in

Ain't nothing new sheet I keep it mannish

It's different now than when I was out let's examine

What's happening junior what's going down

How the women acting heard you was crushing 'em in the town

Look good don't they hell yeah shoulda saw

The ones last week at the mall hella raw

And all trying to come up like video queens

So fine they make some of us do the stupidest things

But be careful though get caught up know what you doing

F**k around and be a teenage pop and life is ruined

How ya momma doing she cool is that right

Seen your sister last week at the bank looking tight

Keep yo' eyes on her cause niggas nowadays

Always looking for some new ones to train so many ways

And I'm amazed but not amused as such

We all brothers but some of us getting caught in the clutch

Another day go by another day's the same

Another day of strife I say a prayer for change

But I can't complain and if I did so what

The best we can do is try to find the truth and come up

I'm still banging on these tracks still keep hope for us

Yeah I'm back still rough on wax and still bust

E'rybody gotta do their own thang

See the whole world going insane

Hope to see sun it'll be rain

We lay low lay low lay low

E'rybody trying to maintain

Brothers gonna work out in the amend

'Til we get peace it'll be pain

And they know they know they know

What's on your mind what your homey died

Over what some bullshit is that right

I know him since back in the days we was tight

Used to date his older sister back in late '85

I just wonder why the sh*t don't make no sense

How many gotta die befo' these niggas convinced

Death is final every day for my people I'm praying

Seems so many lose our futures f**kin 'round in the game

A motherf**king shame another life is ruined

Know you wanna ride but gunning for them niggas is useless

See we all confused damn but everything is a test

Don't let ego and emotions be the reason you slip

Cause though your boys might fall fall for doing wrong

Friends drop like drawers nobody mobbing like the law

And we don't need no more in the pen or at war

It's open season every brother on the street is a target believe

E'rybody gotta do their own thang

See the whole world going insane

Hope to see sun it'll be rain

We lay low lay low lay low

E'rybody trying to maintain

Brothers gonna work out in the amend

'Til we get peace it'll be pain

And they know they know they know

Now even though I'm anti pop I still rise

And though it seem it ain't gon' stop I still rise

Above this bullshit hip hop I still rise

Supply wise words disguised in rhyme verse

I curse what these niggas is saying ain't netting real

Just fairy tales of pumping these sisters and making mail

I see 'em pose see the b***hy roles they play

See these videos they shitty see the way we portrayed

See these selling out acts just selling our rap

Believe wannabe mocks with powerhouse tracks

Redefined black manhood defied *****

We rise up f**k this bullshit survival or die

See them tugging niggas mugging with that criminal pout

See 'em frown in every photo see that sh*t in they mouth

See 'em tattered looking battered chasing p**sy and w**d

Makin hookers out of queens every video feed

I see these labels sit back push this sh*t like crack

Now every record every act got you thinking it's black

To act a fool chasing p**sy like it's hard to get

I see these crackers think it's cool been niggas for chips

I split jiggaboo chins analyze these trends

If it's down to me and them I'm sending flowers to king

Ain't netting easy in this world struggle makes the man

Don't let these motherf**kers do you understand the plan believe

E'rybody gotta do their own thang

See the whole world going insane

Hope to see sun it'll be rain

We lay low lay low lay low

E'rybody trying to maintain

Brothers gonna work out in the amend

'Til we get peace it'll be pain

And they know they know they know

E'rybody gotta do their own thang

See the whole world going insane

Hope to see sun it'll be rain

We lay low lay low lay low

E'rybody trying to maintain

Brothers gonna work out in the amend

'Til we get peace it'll be pain

And they know they know they know