《A.M.Y.M.》歌词

[00:00:00] This afternoon we want to talk about

[00:00:00] Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from

[00:00:33] Five yers ago when I was in high school

[00:00:34] No bills to pay I used to say to myself Life is cool

[00:00:36] I had a roof over my head and a part time job

[00:00:38] Slanging at ob's birdstand

[00:00:38] Washington High was the school I attended

[00:00:40] 'Til '87 graduation came and I wasn't with it

[00:00:43] Kicked out the house at the age of 18

[00:00:44] No money for college mmm how should I handle things

[00:00:46] I tried to go the so called right way

[00:00:47] And went to a jc but I wasn't getting paid

[00:00:48] I'm working at a chicken stand now with the chicken

[00:00:50] With a spring at the top of my hat getting clowned

[00:00:52] I gotta pay my rent but my job ain't cutting it

[00:01:05] So now I'm drinking gin saying Here's my alternative

[00:01:06] To either keep doing what I'm doing don't trip

[00:01:07] Or go and buy gats y'all and come up on a grip

[00:01:09] So like anybody else I went and bought a gun

[00:01:10] Pulling burgs at night and now I'm counting my funds

[00:01:12] Three times a day and I drive a coup on danas

[00:01:12] Cruising through the alley bumping on Hi to players

[00:01:15] Yo you can say what you want but I was taught on the streets

[00:01:16] That if a brother didn't work then he didn't eat

[00:01:18] You don't work you can't eat

[00:01:18] Peep this something kind if for weakness

[00:01:19] Focus on the park and watch how I freak this

[00:01:21] Subject for survival got to stay alive

[00:01:23] I gotta eat so I do or die

[00:01:26] Not a full time crook but I was born right

[00:01:28] So if I want to eat sometimes I got to jack

[00:01:31] So jack I will and go get some presidents

[00:01:36] A foot in the ground and the other on an oil slick

[00:01:37] Money ain't everything but either is brokeness

[00:01:42] Give me a knife cause I can't live off happiness

[00:01:44] Once a brother said I can't work for the white kind

[00:01:49] Standing on the corner in a soup line

[00:01:50] Said he's too black too strong ain't done nothing yet

[00:01:53] Waiting on the fifth for his government relief check

[00:01:55] Humming and bumming most hate to see him coming

[00:01:58] And every first and 15th these strongs on his life

[00:01:59] But a hustle is a hustle and a meal is a meal

[00:02:00] That's why I'm real and I ain't afraid to steal

[00:02:01] Straight from the street backed up by a funky beat

[00:02:03] If you don't work og then you don't eat

[00:02:04] You don't work you can't eat

[00:02:04] Repeat 2x

[00:02:05] Ayo I want y'all to meet a n***a from the Lench Mob

[00:02:08] He gaffled for his meals

[00:02:09] Mcdonald's is my spot

[00:02:11] Ayo Jay Dee kick some s**t for the Maad Circle G

[00:02:12] If you don't work you don't eat need I say more

[00:02:14] Cause I'm a kick my rhymes in abundant while you stay poor

[00:02:16] Since I was 14 I raised myself

[00:02:20] I built a roof over my head and then I went for self

[00:02:21] I sold cooked up rock made my way through school

[00:02:22] I'm not saying you should do it cause it ain't too cool

[00:02:23] Kicking playing to start your back

[00:02:24] Talking about that b******t prize you slay me right

[00:02:25] And you other motherf**kers out here banging for change

[00:02:26] Need to wise up and seek personal gain

[00:02:30] Or maintain some type of pain

[00:02:31] Cause they don't give away hot lunches out here in L A

[00:02:33] Yo peace to the Dub and the Maad Circle

[00:02:34] For giving me the chance to let the rhyme just flow

[00:02:36] So you can

[00:02:36] So you can either sell d**e or get your a*s a job

[00:02:40] Jay Dee

[00:02:40] I'd rather roll with the Lench Mob

[00:02:42] You don't work you can't eat

[00:02:45] Eiht is stepping from the city down under

[00:02:46] And I'm robbing more punk fools blind like Stevie Wonder

[00:03:02] Ain't no punching a clock I ain't with it

[00:03:03] For a quarter an hour I make the s**t every minute

[00:03:07] And please don't even let me catch a brother slipping

[00:03:10] He'll be short shorter than short

[00:03:12] With my hands around his troat

[00:03:13] Fool come off the chain and bracelet

[00:03:14] I know it's wrong but face it

[00:03:15] A brother like me won't win the lottery

[00:03:17] Ain't no faking when it's time to bring home the bacon

[00:03:19] Cause I was taught get what you're gonna get quick

[00:03:21] And don't get gaffled in the mix

[00:03:22] So I guess I'll keep stacking breaking the law

[00:03:24] Checking a fool wrecking and breaking his jaw

[00:03:26] Gyeah that's life in the Compton streets

[00:03:27] Homeboy you don't work homeboy you don't eat

[00:03:29] You don't work you can't eat

[00:03:30] This record was put together by Jay Dee Coolio and the W

[00:03:34] Eight Chilly Chill and dj Crazy Toons

[00:03:39] Sic brothers out to get paid cause

[00:03:40] Nowadays you got to go for yourself or go broke

[00:03:44] I'm living day by day cause you see the future ain't promised

[00:03:49] So save that drama for your mama

[00:03:54] And make sure you're out of my path when I'm on the creep tip

[00:03:57] Or have your first name changed to R I P

[00:04:01] You don't work you can't eat

[00:04:03] Repeat 2x