HOLD DOWN THE BLOCK

I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation Yeah feds feast on street dons Look at they teeth showin' Salivatin' at the mouth South to East Orange Keep pourin that liquor but nigga don't sleep on it You'll be giving up your Jesus piece and your peeps to pawn it For Legal fees in the Penal dormit Screamin' on the horn with bout 30 years on your conscience I'm watchin' brothers disappear and it's appallin' Some dudes had just only a year of ballin' Counter intelligence found strange evidence Still we behind the wheel with heat on us Hanging with predicates Position replaced and caged in So they got us caged in Waves spinnin like Mike Bivens from New Edition I got families I'm feedin cuz my man's is bleedin Every five seconds look in all directions I come through prepared I give him a call,“I'm close, bring them guns downstairs” I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation It's beef week Monday murder Two niggas dead Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday is hearse day Friday somebody gotta die day Saturday put the gat away Chillin with your chick and a bag of haze Wondering how's it all gon end And what type of way Cuz Sunday's back to gun play Most shit start over nothing And get finished quick cuz the art of repercussion Yeah I seen it A G going out decent Taking a plea agreement Thinking he's secret Escape the crime scene Now you live straight like 9:15 Then one time intervene? My man like me sayin I don't care if I die But the 6th hour on me know I'm scared to die You thinking the one I send to clap you be a shorty But he old school, holding a .38 He in his 40s I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation Any time brothers can't get jobs then they rob A man rather die than live on his knees and starve Cops steady askin your man what happened First he tell then he stopped like he not really rattin Guess he not really in that casket from a sawed-off Listen peep game from the brain of an all-star The rain hurt niggas bones who been shot Metal pins in they leg, they walk with a limp-hop The streets lie so you better be cautious Your man'll fry you plus everybody talking A vet or general, don't step where I walked in Make your own path, be a legend in your skin Make your own cash don't stress what I'm flossin Don't expect more when you put in less work than all them Queensbridge projects has taught him And that's for life - you heard me right I got the block. I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation I gotta hold down the block When the block is hot I gotta use my imagination To change the situation