[00:00.02]Yeah
[00:04.53]Know what I'm sayin' Premo'
[00:08.10]Tell these niggas about my life know what I mean
[00:13.22]It's been a crazy' crazy journey for me' know what I mean
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[00:21.12]I spend my days in a steel cage
[00:22.99]Where brothers feel rage
[00:24.10]And get real with razor blades
[00:25.96]In I'll ways so when my cell close
[00:28.05]My brain cells expose
[00:29.36]And my pen excels to a part of hell froze
[00:32.26]Inside of me was tellin' me to stay out
[00:35.02]Reality was tellin' me that if I find a way out
[00:37.12]I had to stay out
[00:38.19]Plans I had to lay out
[00:39.96]In order to elevate from my identity
[00:42.04]Mentally accelerate
[00:43.44]I seen a lot of men break down
[00:46.00]Being an inmate
[00:46.75]Now I realize I couldn't make the same mistakes
[00:48.88]It was real being concealed in steel gates
[00:51.53]Where brothers who feel hate against a another race
[00:54.60]Which only indicates a snake mentality
[00:56.72]These are my days of reality
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[01:00.99]The streets is a dirty game
[01:02.12]My heart's still home in the streets
[01:05.67]It's a damn shame
[01:06.64]The streets is a dirty game
[01:08.11]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[01:10.22]It's a damn shame
[01:12.23]The streets is a dirty game
[01:13.34]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin'
[01:16.76]It's a damn shame
[01:17.54]The streets is a dirty game
[01:18.89]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[01:21.60]It's a damn shame
[01:22.90]The streets is a dirty game
[01:24.50]My heart's still home in the streets
[01:26.64]
[01:27.03]Often I think of my people the board denied they freedom' a mirage
[01:30.44]Disappearing before our eyes
[01:32.24]We were born to strife
[01:34.04]Now living in courts decide
[01:34.80]Missing their children we can feel it when our mommas cry
[01:37.72]We was hustlin' but would the jury find me guilty?
[01:39.91]They seen us strugglin'
[01:41.56]Doing what we have to do to ease the sufferin'
[01:43.56]We know it's wrong but so was havin' us freezin'
[01:45.99]Left the stove on wearing our sneakers until the soles are gone
[01:48.80]We constantly holdin' on' being broke
[01:51.86]And hopin our phone is our only escape
[01:54.84]And when our favorite TV shows is on shots ringin' echo in the ear before the cops came kids was everywhere
[02:00.88]And women cryin niggas going to jail
[02:02.62]A mothers eyes fill with tears as she nears
[02:05.22]Realizing he's surviving she exhales like Angela Bassett
[02:07.76]I'm a poet amongst slums' crimes' and crack addicts
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[02:11.27]The streets is a dirty game
[02:13.50]My heart's still home in the streets
[02:16.06]It's a damn shame
[02:17.57]The streets is a dirty game
[02:19.55]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[03:21.96][02:20.26]It's a damn shame
[03:22.92][02:20.64]The streets is a dirty game
[03:24.24][02:21.30]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin'
[03:27.30][02:22.13]It's a damn shame
[03:28.35][02:24.53]The streets is a dirty game
[03:29.72][02:26.39]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[03:32.66][02:27.31]It's a damn shame
[03:33.77][02:28.45]The streets is a dirty game
[03:35.20][02:30.10]My heart's still home in the streets
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[02:32.67]I live a lonely existence
[02:33.70]Lately I've become a mathematician
[02:35.23]As I divide my friends with phony niggas I confide in God
[02:37.93]As for sins may he forgive 'em
[02:40.85]If you have dreams they can be achieved never give up
[02:43.46]Look at me once a convicted felon
[02:43.73]Once addicted to sellin'
[02:45.86]The substance which corrupted many men in my era
[02:48.59]I stood in awe at the dope fiends
[02:50.86]Drove by those caught in the coke game
[02:52.15]Some proper some locked up some sold claim
[02:54.41]The main team wanted the shine
[02:56.12]Streets so alive I felt the air breathe
[02:57.71]Not only did I misplace time
[02:59.39]I could remember as an inmate
[03:01.04]At midstate I stayed in the law library
[03:03.52]Some chose to lift weight' fine
[03:04.90]As if they content with they time
[03:07.54]They strip us at the visit
[03:08.38]Limit our education
[03:09.55]Ridicule us niggas
[03:10.76]Modern enslavement
[03:11.59]Even though I'm out of the cages
[03:12.96]I'm the voice of the soldier in the yard with the banger
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