[00:24.28]I'm yawning while I'm waking to the early morning gunfire[00:26.83]Another day another scar to require[00:29.42]Jumped out my bed[00:30.25]Tried to break my alarm[00:31.48]Took a shower and then I strapped on my firearm[00:34.33]Grabbed my Pelle Pelle cause I wanna look fly when I die[00:37.31]But it ain't my turn to say goodbye[00:39.10]How do I know[00:40.39]Some people call it instinct[00:41.98]I like to call it my luck[00:43.34]Who gives a ****[00:44.22]I'm stuck in this environment and can't depart from it[00:46.96]And if I try I always end up back where I started[00:49.61]Plan A[00:50.08]Square 1[00:50.72]There's no escaping[00:52.15]So I've come to realize my truth[00:53.70]Tryna live my full life until my time is through[00:56.55]Clocks ticking[00:57.37]So I don't got no time for you[00:58.89]As I head outside[00:59.82]Amongst the rest of the animals[01:01.75]Is where I feel relaxed and safe and I can stand still[01:04.89]It's sorta like a family bond[01:06.52]We gather up all the soldiers and form into an ignition[01:09.08]A swarm of kids[01:10.27]Now it's on again[01:11.31]Drinking straight from the bottle[01:12.65]Warm gin dripping down my chin[01:14.37]For the ones securing[01:15.80]You can't win against 25 ****** bent up with mac 10 semi-automatics[01:19.13][01:20.24]Full-addicted crime addicts[01:21.75]So long as there is cash involved[01:23.21]I gotta have it[01:24.29]There's many different levels to the criminal mind[01:26.40]Either you in it for the money or you wasting your time[01:28.96]My destiny will be the death of me[01:30.78]Forever loving my peoples[01:31.99]Hustling[01:32.22]It's only right[01:33.26]****** be juggling to survive[01:34.50]It's only crime that provides for me[01:36.53]So I resort to puffing dimes and dreaming of pushing a ride[01:38.91]Negative thoughts fill my brain but it's the projects to blame[01:41.22]****** forever getting loot while standing out in the rain[01:43.62]So when the sun shine[01:44.77]****** will be writing a rhyme[01:46.07]And if a ***** owing[01:47.25]Blood is how I'm taking mine[01:48.68]As I climb the ladder[01:50.04]Of success with techs[01:51.45]Though I rather not have to watch my back get threat[01:53.90]But it's like that[01:54.63]So while you just ******[01:55.64]Getting touched[01:56.11]Your man wasn't aware[01:57.30]That's why that ***** got bucked[01:59.23]I realize open my eyes once this **** got real[02:01.32]There's mad drama on the Hill when ****** getting blue steel[02:03.56]I love my ****** for that[02:05.07]We keep it real[02:05.91]Get loot[02:06.36]And our identity is wearing army certified suits[02:09.03]Most deaf my people hold me down whenever with me[02:11.34]Talking all that ******** but it's the gats the rules the streets[02:14.43]Survival of the fittest automatics recommended[02:16.94]Given a life sentence to crime until my life is ended[02:19.76]****** wanna point guns in my face[02:21.75]So what (What What)[02:22.78]I'm taking mines in blood[02:23.72][02:24.47]****** forever talking ****[02:25.93]So what (And what)[02:27.74]I'm taking mines in blood[02:29.63]Try to jam me on pack[02:31.18]So what (And what)[02:32.79]I'm taking mines in blood[02:34.79]****** running out their mouth[02:36.16]So what (************)[02:37.81]I'm taking mines in blood[02:39.15]How we do it[02:40.25]How we do it[02:41.28]We taking ours in blood[02:42.46]We taking ours in blood[02:45.10]How we do it[02:45.90]How we do it[02:47.31][02:47.98]We taking ours in blood[02:48.97][02:50.47]We taking ours in blood[02:53.00]We taking ours in blood[02:55.10][02:58.78]This city got me trapped like an animal with criminal thoughts[03:01.51]I can't seem to turn away from this unknown force[03:04.04]If only I can lay my hands on the source of my trouble[03:06.84]Then maybe I can heal my scar before it bubbles[03:09.28]It's like a play[03:10.33]And there ain't no cure[03:11.42]We observe this world's filth[03:12.94]Therefore we're unpure[03:13.78]My life is like a bad dream I can't seem to shake[03:16.74]Only my peoples who are equal understand or relate[03:18.69]The way we live is never planned[03:20.28]It just happened that way[03:21.32]So until tomorrow I'll just be surviving today[03:24.03]I'm just another man[03:25.25]On this planet living for death[03:26.51]Pops gone[03:27.14]I had to learn to be a man myself[03:29.17]But I don't stress that[03:30.90]He did his dirt[03:31.88]Now he pays back waiting in a federal laid back[03:33.98]Pops times is different and things ain't the same[03:36.75]It's worse than ever to get paid we do whatever[03:39.23]See some rather achieve goals and be a scholar[03:41.78]I rather get locked like you[03:43.23]Earning a 6-digit dollar[03:44.87]Making the desert bird holler[03:46.31]Doing white collar crimes[03:47.83]But the fed time is hard to swallow[03:49.59]And digest so I protest the pen[03:51.50]I rather die before the jail cell sucks me in[03:53.75]And my peoples we all share the same thinking[03:55.93]We all the same on the same tempo[03:58.02]Making cowards perpetual[03:59.40]Pull out the tech[04:00.20]Automatic metro[04:01.22]My shots chase you round corners[04:02.79]Leaving your family a bunch of mourners[04:04.70]And I'm all-around[04:05.53]Point as that[04:06.72]If you feel me you're guaranteed something you can feel back[04:09.66]Kid you don't know me[04:10.82]You don't wanna know me[04:12.09]You tried to blow me your weak side just showed me[04:14.45]Stepped out my door on 41st Side at 12[04:16.74]Didn't see my crew around so I got bent for search[04:19.15]I had to jet back upstairs so I can stash my 9[04:21.60]It was a Friday night Rikers had it bad one time[04:24.08]Cause ****** getting bagged on a regular son[04:26.57]Does like **** the drugs[04:27.95]All we want is the guns[04:29.18]So I proceed with caution[04:30.45]Eyes open whenever walking[04:31.95]****** be ass talking then be victims of extortion[04:34.42]Hold myself down the only way I know[04:36.56]****** pumping back in streets[04:38.01]In debt cause they owe[04:39.13]Street life is like a trial[04:40.52]Ass out if you blow[04:41.71]The maximum is death son you know how that go[04:44.54]Got me on point[04:45.53]Paranoid for life[04:46.66]That's why I walk the street with heat especially at night[04:49.07]I represent the North side I hold the title and pride[04:51.57]And when its on[04:52.58]I use the infrared for guide[04:54.21]Aim it at your temple[04:55.43]With no remorse and never sentimental[04:57.11]My crew is cold-hearted from all the foul **** we been through[04:59.72]Surviving shootouts[05:00.44]Bullets hitting the fence sparking[05:02.07]Buck my fingers with guns ****** I'm marking til the blocks darkened[05:05.44]Doing my thing[05:06.25]Let my gun clap[05:08.75][05:09.92]It's like that