《Streets Is Watching(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Streets Is Watching - Jay-Z

[00:00:02] Written by：Shawn Carter/David Willis

[00:00:20] Look if I shoot you I'm brainless

[00:00:23] But if you shoot me then you're famous

[00:00:24] What's a nigga to do

[00:00:25] When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking

[00:00:28] Waiting for you to break make your first mistake

[00:00:30] Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted

[00:00:33] But my time is money and twenty five I can't afford it

[00:00:36] Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates

[00:00:39] Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it

[00:00:41] Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass

[00:00:44] This rhyme you're operating on bitch time

[00:00:46] Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells all y'all niggas

[00:00:49] Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly

[00:00:52] The type to start a beef then run to the cops

[00:00:54] When I see you in the street got one in the drop

[00:00:56] When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop

[00:00:59] Taking pictures with some bitches in front of the drop

[00:01:01] The streets is watching

[00:01:02] When the streets is watching

[00:01:04] Blocks keep clocking

[00:01:04] Waiting for you to break make your first mistake

[00:01:07] Can't ignore it

[00:01:12] Now it's hard not to kill niggas

[00:01:14] It's like a full time job not to kill niggas can't chill

[00:01:17] The streets is watching

[00:01:19] When you froze your arms

[00:01:20] Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm

[00:01:22] Can't get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up

[00:01:25] Sweet niggas running 'round swearing shit is sweeter

[00:01:28] Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader

[00:01:30] Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer

[00:01:34] Kidnap niggas want to steal you

[00:01:36] Broke niggas don't want no cash they just want to kill ya

[00:01:39] For the name niggas don't know the rules

[00:01:41] Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool

[00:01:44] Force your hand of course that man's plotting

[00:01:46] Smarten up the streets is watching it's on

[00:01:54] When the streets is watching

[00:01:55] Blocks keep clocking

[00:01:56] Waiting for you to break make your first mistake

[00:01:59] Can't ignore it

[00:02:03] My street mentality flip bricks forever

[00:02:06] Know me and money we like armed co defendants

[00:02:08] Nigga we stick together

[00:02:09] Shit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground

[00:02:12] Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around

[00:02:14] And you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found

[00:02:17] Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain't me now

[00:02:19] Got a face too easy to trace niggas mouths got slow leaks

[00:02:22] Had to hire a team of workers couldn't play those streets

[00:02:24] See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me Hectic

[00:02:27] Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message

[00:02:30] I said this Let's play fair and we can stay here

[00:02:32] I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'

[00:02:35] Ay there's money to be made and niggas got the picture

[00:02:38] Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer

[00:02:40] Then hard times fell upon us

[00:02:42] Half of my staff had warrants

[00:02:43] The other half in the casket lay dormant

[00:02:45] I felt like life was cheating me

[00:02:47] For the first time in my life I was getting money

[00:02:49] But it was like my conscience was eating me

[00:02:51] Was this a lesson God teaching me

[00:02:52] Was he saying that

[00:02:53] I was playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back

[00:02:55] Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad

[00:02:58] Was niggas thinking simplify was turning cocaine crack

[00:03:01] Ain't a whole lot of brain to that

[00:03:02] Just trying to maintain a stack

[00:03:03] And not collide like two trains that's on the same track

[00:03:06] But get my life together like the oils I bring back

[00:03:09] In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot

[00:03:11] Got my transporter take it across the border then stop

[00:03:14] To set up shop with a quarter of rock

[00:03:16] Here's the plan

[00:03:17] For three straight weeks niggas slaughtered the block

[00:03:19] But you know the game is food it f**ked up me and my dudes

[00:03:22] One drought can wipe a nigga out faster than the cops

[00:03:24] And this unstable way of living just had to stop

[00:03:27] Half of my niggas got time we done real things

[00:03:29] By '94 became the subject of half of y'all niggas rhymes

[00:03:32] Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my shit

[00:03:35] But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this shit

[00:03:37] The life and times of a nigga mind excited with crime

[00:03:40] And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind

[00:03:42] I figured shit why risk myself I just write it in rhymes

[00:03:45] And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine

[00:03:48] The mind state of a nigga who boosted the crime rate

[00:03:50] So high in one city they send National Guards to get me