Just Like Us

This is as close you gon` get to the streets without gettin shot<br><br>[Chorus]<br>In the streets<br>Cock guns and bust yo` heat<br>In the streets<br>Where we live and die for beef<br>In the streets<br>Hos`ll set you up, get blood on your sheets<br>In the streets<br>By any means we gon` eat<br>In the streets<br>Sellin drugs you might blow up<br>In the streets<br>They got hos to set you up<br>In the streets<br>Even police is corrupt<br>In the streets<br>There`s a million niggaz just like us<br><br>[Sticky Fingaz]<br>I swear I ain`t been the same since they had to bury my pops<br>I`m uncivilized like I was raised in a box<br>I`m told get your sister raped nigga makin you watch<br>Fuck the cops, fuck the world, I`m above the law<br>They can`t catch me, what you think the gloves is for?<br>Got your ear to the street, you ain`t hearin me<br>Motherfucker, the streets got they ear to me<br>Speak my name, better think careful duke<br>Like when clingin on to life who gon` be there for you?<br>Get blood on they seats, drive you to the hospital<br>Nobody!!! Cause you goin to hell<br>I got an image to protect and records to sell<br>Besides a one sided story is easy to tell<br>My poster on the wall only way you see me in jail<br>Sticky Fingaz nigga, the legend, the myth<br>Niggaz get shot everytime I shoot the gift<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>[X-1]<br>I banged out in dorms and tore mouths off<br>While yall run to cops as soon as it pops off<br>I can`t respect lames when I`m knowin you soft<br>That`s why I feel the pain for my thugs up north<br>No regrets in this world, not one care<br>No respect for this world without no peers<br>They did me wrong for years, I`m finally gettin back<br>Never sheaded a tear seein niggaz on they back<br>Lord knows it hurts to put his people in the dirt<br>Bullet holes in shirts and chumps buried in skirts<br>Prayin to God is hard, these streets don`t play<br>But you gotta keep up your guard and hope the pain go away<br>I`m from where they shoot street lights out<br>And you gotta yell to talk over passin trains<br>And watch who you fuck with when passin `cain<br>Cause them same fists`ll get your wrists trapped in chains, nigga<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>[Geneveese]<br>My killers move triggers and set firearms off<br>Smoke the type of blunts that set fire alarms off<br>One shot`ll blow your face, chest and your arms off<br>Murderin Guiliani for all the pain that he`s causin<br>Launderin dirty laundry through banks of corporate ?<br>Shit doctors can only calm me til the drugs wear off<br>One pump of the sawed-off and your squad`ll be hauled off<br>Dropped her off in the car lock, locked in the trunk of the car<br>Shit`s official, we spittin through government issue<br>40 automatic pistols rippin through brain tissue<br>Stuffin coke up wit your bitch I`ll piss through<br>And a black on black lambo, puffin on ? crystal<br>Under our politics, codes of the street<br>Never negotiate with killers with intentions of breach<br>Only associate with villains if you willin to bleed<br>Cause leakin`ll get your mother hogtied and brutally beat<br><br>[Chorus]