Streets Is Watching Lyrics

Song	Streets Is Watching
Artist	Jay-Z
Album	In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
Download	Image LRC TXT

[00:00.00]	作曲 : Romeo Beresford & Shawn Carter & Hayden Brown & Jonathan Burks
[00:01.00]	作词 : Carter, Siffre, Wills
[00:20.70]	Look if I shoot you I'm brainless
[00:23.10]	But if you shoot me then you're famous
[00:24.82]	What's a nigga to do
[00:25.89]	When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking
[00:28.54]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[00:30.93]	Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted
[00:33.74]	But my time is money and twenty five I can't afford it
[00:36.60]	Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates
[00:39.06]	Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it
[00:41.45]	Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass
[00:44.03]	This rhyme you're operating on bitch time
[00:46.49]	Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells all y'all niggas
[00:49.06]	Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly
[00:52.00]	The type to start a beef then run to the cops
[00:54.37]	When I see you in the street got one in the drop
[00:56.96]	When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop
[00:59.63]	Taking pictures with some bitches in front of the drop
[01:01.69]	The streets is watching
[01:02.40]	When the streets is watching
[01:03.40]
[01:04.00]	Blocks keep clocking
[01:04.87]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[01:06.60]
[01:07.46]	Can't ignore it
[01:08.04]
[01:12.72]	Now it's hard not to kill niggas
[01:14.03]
[01:14.56]	It's like a full time job not to kill niggas can't chill
[01:17.20]	The streets is watching
[01:18.40]
[01:19.14]	When you froze your arms
[01:20.43]	Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm
[01:22.83]	Can't get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up
[01:25.92]	Sweet niggas running 'round swearing shit is sweeter
[01:28.27]	Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader
[01:30.87]	Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer
[01:34.41]	Kidnap niggas want to steal you
[01:36.05]	Broke niggas don't want no cash they just want to kill ya
[01:39.11]	For the name niggas don't know the rules
[01:41.02]	Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool
[01:43.40]
[01:44.13]	Force your hand of course that man's plotting
[01:46.10]
[01:46.80]	Smarten up the streets is watching it's on
[01:48.89]
[01:54.14]	When the streets is watching
[01:55.19]
[01:55.77]	Blocks keep clocking
[01:56.32]
[01:56.83]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[01:59.05]	Can't ignore it
[01:59.75]
[02:03.65]	My street mentality flip bricks forever
[02:05.09]
[02:06.11]	Know me and money we like armed co defendants
[02:08.00]
[02:08.50]	Nigga we stick together
[02:09.27]	Shit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
[02:12.37]	Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around
[02:14.36]	And you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found
[02:17.43]	Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain't me now
[02:19.90]	Got a face too easy to trace niggas mouths got slow leaks
[02:22.52]	Had to hire a team of workers couldn't play those streets
[02:24.99]	See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me Hectic
[02:27.31]	Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message
[02:30.13]	I said this Let's play fair and we can stay here
[02:32.78]	I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'
[02:35.37]	Ay there's money to be made and niggas got the picture
[02:38.27]	Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer
[02:40.56]	Then hard times fell upon us
[02:42.24]	Half of my staff had warrants
[02:43.67]	The other half in the casket lay dormant
[02:45.46]	I felt like life was cheating me
[02:47.35]	For the first time in my life I was getting money
[02:49.19]	But it was like my conscience was eating me
[02:51.19]	Was this a lesson God teaching me
[02:52.77]	Was he saying that
[02:53.50]	I was playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back
[02:55.93]	Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad
[02:58.74]	Was niggas thinking simplify was turning cocaine crack
[03:01.00]	Ain't a whole lot of brain to that
[03:02.43]	Just trying to maintain a stack
[03:03.69]	And not collide like two trains that's on the same track
[03:06.45]	But get my life together like the oils I bring back
[03:09.03]	In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot
[03:11.68]	Got my transporter take it across the border then stop
[03:14.38]	To set up shop with a quarter of rock
[03:16.26]	Here's the plan
[03:17.13]	For three straight weeks niggas slaughtered the block
[03:19.40]	But you know the game is food it f**ked up me and my dudes
[03:22.30]	One drought can wipe a nigga out faster than the cops
[03:24.78]	And this unstable way of living just had to stop
[03:27.31]	Half of my niggas got time we done real things
[03:29.79]	By '94 became the subject of half of y'all niggas rhymes
[03:32.33]	Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my shit
[03:35.00]	But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this shit
[03:37.60]	The life and times of a nigga mind excited with crime
[03:40.02]	And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
[03:42.11]
[03:42.64]	I figured shit why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
[03:45.38]	And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine
[03:48.13]	The mind state of a nigga who boosted the crime rate
[03:50.79]	So high in one city they send National Guards to get me

[00:00.00]	zuo qu : Romeo Beresford Shawn Carter Hayden Brown Jonathan Burks
[00:01.00]	zuo ci : Carter, Siffre, Wills
[00:20.70]	Look if I shoot you I' m brainless
[00:23.10]	But if you shoot me then you' re famous
[00:24.82]	What' s a nigga to do
[00:25.89]	When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking
[00:28.54]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[00:30.93]	Can' t ignore it that' s the fastest way to get extorted
[00:33.74]	But my time is money and twenty five I can' t afford it
[00:36.60]	Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates
[00:39.06]	Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it
[00:41.45]	Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass
[00:44.03]	This rhyme you' re operating on bitch time
[00:46.49]	Y' all niggas ain' t worth my shells all y' all niggas
[00:49.06]	Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly
[00:52.00]	The type to start a beef then run to the cops
[00:54.37]	When I see you in the street got one in the drop
[00:56.96]	When I' d rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop
[00:59.63]	Taking pictures with some bitches in front of the drop
[01:01.69]	The streets is watching
[01:02.40]	When the streets is watching
[01:03.40]
[01:04.00]	Blocks keep clocking
[01:04.87]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[01:06.60]
[01:07.46]	Can' t ignore it
[01:08.04]
[01:12.72]	Now it' s hard not to kill niggas
[01:14.03]
[01:14.56]	It' s like a full time job not to kill niggas can' t chill
[01:17.20]	The streets is watching
[01:18.40]
[01:19.14]	When you froze your arms
[01:20.43]	Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm
[01:22.83]	Can' t get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up
[01:25.92]	Sweet niggas running ' round swearing shit is sweeter
[01:28.27]	Once you' re tagged lame the game is follow the leader
[01:30.87]	Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer
[01:34.41]	Kidnap niggas want to steal you
[01:36.05]	Broke niggas don' t want no cash they just want to kill ya
[01:39.11]	For the name niggas don' t know the rules
[01:41.02]	Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool
[01:43.40]
[01:44.13]	Force your hand of course that man' s plotting
[01:46.10]
[01:46.80]	Smarten up the streets is watching it' s on
[01:48.89]
[01:54.14]	When the streets is watching
[01:55.19]
[01:55.77]	Blocks keep clocking
[01:56.32]
[01:56.83]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[01:59.05]	Can' t ignore it
[01:59.75]
[02:03.65]	My street mentality flip bricks forever
[02:05.09]
[02:06.11]	Know me and money we like armed co defendants
[02:08.00]
[02:08.50]	Nigga we stick together
[02:09.27]	Shit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
[02:12.37]	Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around
[02:14.36]	And you can look up and down the streets and I can' t be found
[02:17.43]	Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain' t me now
[02:19.90]	Got a face too easy to trace niggas mouths got slow leaks
[02:22.52]	Had to hire a team of workers couldn' t play those streets
[02:24.99]	See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me Hectic
[02:27.31]	Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message
[02:30.13]	I said this Let' s play fair and we can stay here
[02:32.78]	I' m trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'
[02:35.37]	Ay there' s money to be made and niggas got the picture
[02:38.27]	Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer
[02:40.56]	Then hard times fell upon us
[02:42.24]	Half of my staff had warrants
[02:43.67]	The other half in the casket lay dormant
[02:45.46]	I felt like life was cheating me
[02:47.35]	For the first time in my life I was getting money
[02:49.19]	But it was like my conscience was eating me
[02:51.19]	Was this a lesson God teaching me
[02:52.77]	Was he saying that
[02:53.50]	I was playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back
[02:55.93]	Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad
[02:58.74]	Was niggas thinking simplify was turning cocaine crack
[03:01.00]	Ain' t a whole lot of brain to that
[03:02.43]	Just trying to maintain a stack
[03:03.69]	And not collide like two trains that' s on the same track
[03:06.45]	But get my life together like the oils I bring back
[03:09.03]	In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot
[03:11.68]	Got my transporter take it across the border then stop
[03:14.38]	To set up shop with a quarter of rock
[03:16.26]	Here' s the plan
[03:17.13]	For three straight weeks niggas slaughtered the block
[03:19.40]	But you know the game is food it f ked up me and my dudes
[03:22.30]	One drought can wipe a nigga out faster than the cops
[03:24.78]	And this unstable way of living just had to stop
[03:27.31]	Half of my niggas got time we done real things
[03:29.79]	By ' 94 became the subject of half of y' all niggas rhymes
[03:32.33]	Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my shit
[03:35.00]	But that' s the life for us lost souls brought up in this shit
[03:37.60]	The life and times of a nigga mind excited with crime
[03:40.02]	And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
[03:42.11]
[03:42.64]	I figured shit why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
[03:45.38]	And let you feel me and if you don' t like it then fine
[03:48.13]	The mind state of a nigga who boosted the crime rate
[03:50.79]	So high in one city they send National Guards to get me

[00:00.00]	zuò qǔ : Romeo Beresford Shawn Carter Hayden Brown Jonathan Burks
[00:01.00]	zuò cí : Carter, Siffre, Wills
[00:20.70]	Look if I shoot you I' m brainless
[00:23.10]	But if you shoot me then you' re famous
[00:24.82]	What' s a nigga to do
[00:25.89]	When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking
[00:28.54]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[00:30.93]	Can' t ignore it that' s the fastest way to get extorted
[00:33.74]	But my time is money and twenty five I can' t afford it
[00:36.60]	Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates
[00:39.06]	Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it
[00:41.45]	Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass
[00:44.03]	This rhyme you' re operating on bitch time
[00:46.49]	Y' all niggas ain' t worth my shells all y' all niggas
[00:49.06]	Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly
[00:52.00]	The type to start a beef then run to the cops
[00:54.37]	When I see you in the street got one in the drop
[00:56.96]	When I' d rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop
[00:59.63]	Taking pictures with some bitches in front of the drop
[01:01.69]	The streets is watching
[01:02.40]	When the streets is watching
[01:03.40]
[01:04.00]	Blocks keep clocking
[01:04.87]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[01:06.60]
[01:07.46]	Can' t ignore it
[01:08.04]
[01:12.72]	Now it' s hard not to kill niggas
[01:14.03]
[01:14.56]	It' s like a full time job not to kill niggas can' t chill
[01:17.20]	The streets is watching
[01:18.40]
[01:19.14]	When you froze your arms
[01:20.43]	Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm
[01:22.83]	Can' t get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up
[01:25.92]	Sweet niggas running ' round swearing shit is sweeter
[01:28.27]	Once you' re tagged lame the game is follow the leader
[01:30.87]	Everybody want a piece of your scrilla so you gotta keep it realer
[01:34.41]	Kidnap niggas want to steal you
[01:36.05]	Broke niggas don' t want no cash they just want to kill ya
[01:39.11]	For the name niggas don' t know the rules
[01:41.02]	Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool
[01:43.40]
[01:44.13]	Force your hand of course that man' s plotting
[01:46.10]
[01:46.80]	Smarten up the streets is watching it' s on
[01:48.89]
[01:54.14]	When the streets is watching
[01:55.19]
[01:55.77]	Blocks keep clocking
[01:56.32]
[01:56.83]	Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
[01:59.05]	Can' t ignore it
[01:59.75]
[02:03.65]	My street mentality flip bricks forever
[02:05.09]
[02:06.11]	Know me and money we like armed co defendants
[02:08.00]
[02:08.50]	Nigga we stick together
[02:09.27]	Shit whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
[02:12.37]	Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around
[02:14.36]	And you can look up and down the streets and I can' t be found
[02:17.43]	Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain' t me now
[02:19.90]	Got a face too easy to trace niggas mouths got slow leaks
[02:22.52]	Had to hire a team of workers couldn' t play those streets
[02:24.99]	See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me Hectic
[02:27.31]	Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message
[02:30.13]	I said this Let' s play fair and we can stay here
[02:32.78]	I' m trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'
[02:35.37]	Ay there' s money to be made and niggas got the picture
[02:38.27]	Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer
[02:40.56]	Then hard times fell upon us
[02:42.24]	Half of my staff had warrants
[02:43.67]	The other half in the casket lay dormant
[02:45.46]	I felt like life was cheating me
[02:47.35]	For the first time in my life I was getting money
[02:49.19]	But it was like my conscience was eating me
[02:51.19]	Was this a lesson God teaching me
[02:52.77]	Was he saying that
[02:53.50]	I was playing the game straight from Hell from which few came back
[02:55.93]	Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad
[02:58.74]	Was niggas thinking simplify was turning cocaine crack
[03:01.00]	Ain' t a whole lot of brain to that
[03:02.43]	Just trying to maintain a stack
[03:03.69]	And not collide like two trains that' s on the same track
[03:06.45]	But get my life together like the oils I bring back
[03:09.03]	In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot
[03:11.68]	Got my transporter take it across the border then stop
[03:14.38]	To set up shop with a quarter of rock
[03:16.26]	Here' s the plan
[03:17.13]	For three straight weeks niggas slaughtered the block
[03:19.40]	But you know the game is food it f ked up me and my dudes
[03:22.30]	One drought can wipe a nigga out faster than the cops
[03:24.78]	And this unstable way of living just had to stop
[03:27.31]	Half of my niggas got time we done real things
[03:29.79]	By ' 94 became the subject of half of y' all niggas rhymes
[03:32.33]	Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my shit
[03:35.00]	But that' s the life for us lost souls brought up in this shit
[03:37.60]	The life and times of a nigga mind excited with crime
[03:40.02]	And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
[03:42.11]
[03:42.64]	I figured shit why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
[03:45.38]	And let you feel me and if you don' t like it then fine
[03:48.13]	The mind state of a nigga who boosted the crime rate
[03:50.79]	So high in one city they send National Guards to get me

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