[00:00.00] 作曲 : N. JONES/M. BATSON
[00:01.00] 作词 : Batson, Jones
[00:10.380]I gotta lay down the block,
[00:11.850]
[00:13.040]when the block is hot
[00:14.300]
[00:15.380]I gotta use my imagination,
[00:17.360]
[00:17.970]to change the situation
[00:19.480]
[00:20.670]I gotta lay down the block,
[00:22.510]
[00:23.330]when the block is hot
[00:24.550]
[00:25.820]I gotta use my imagination,
[00:27.710]
[00:28.390]to change the situation
[00:30.710]Yea, Feds feast on street dons,
[00:32.000]look at their teeth showin'
[00:34.000]Salivatin' at the mouth,
[00:35.490]South to East Orange
[00:36.700]Keep pourin' that liquor,
[00:38.010]but nigga don't sleep on it
[00:39.160]You'll be givin' up your Jesus piece
[00:40.690]to your peeps to pawn it
[00:41.850]For legal fees in the penal dorm
[00:43.620]Screamin' on the horn with 'bout
[00:45.310]thirty years on your conscience
[00:46.380]I'm watchin' brothers disappear,
[00:47.980]
[00:48.510]it's appallin'
[00:49.380]Some dudes had just only a year of ballin'
[00:51.850]Counter-intelligence
[00:52.150]
[00:53.020]found a strange evidence
[00:54.100]（When the block is hot）
[00:55.050]Still we behind the wheel with heat on us,
[00:56.920]hangin' with predicates
[00:58.100]Position we placed in caves in,
[00:59.380]so they got us caged in
[01:00.640]Ways spinnin' like Mike Bivens
[01:02.120]from New Edition aging
[01:03.220]I got families I'm feeding '
[01:05.150]cause my mans is bleeding
[01:06.530]Every five seconds look in all directions
[01:08.480]I come through prepared;
[01:10.150]I give 'em a call
[01:11.080]I'm close, bring them guns downstairs
[01:12.750]I gotta lay down the block,
[01:14.180]
[01:14.850]when the block is hot
[01:16.200]
[01:17.450]I gotta use my imagination,
[01:19.990]to change the situation
[01:22.170]
[01:22.880]I gotta lay down the block,
[01:24.770]
[01:25.460]when the block is hot （hold it down）
[01:28.430]I gotta use my imagination,
[01:29.990]
[01:30.710]to change the situation
[01:33.470]Uh, uh, it's beef week,
[01:34.630]Monday, murder
[01:36.930]Two niggaz dead, Tuesday
[01:38.490]Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day
[01:39.880]Friday, somebody-gotta-die-day
[01:41.780]Saturday, put the gat away
[01:43.910]Chillin' wit your chick and a bag of haze
[01:46.360]Wonderin' how it's all gon' end
[01:48.150]and what type of way
[01:49.090]'Cause Sunday back to gunplay
[01:50.610]Mo' shit start over nothin'
[01:52.110]
[01:52.710]And get finished quick 'cause
[01:53.810]the art of repercussion
[01:55.040]
[01:55.700]Yeah, I seen it, a G' going out indecent
[01:58.470]Takin' a plea agreement,
[01:59.650]thinkin' he secret
[02:00.840]Escape the crime scene,
[02:02.030]now you live straight like 9:15
[02:04.350]Then one-time intervene
[02:06.070]My man ain't like me sayin'
[02:07.150]I don't care if I die
[02:08.400]But the SIG Sauer on me now
[02:10.060]I'm scared to die
[02:11.030]You thinkin' the one
[02:12.050]I send to clap you be a shorty
[02:13.480]But he old school, holdin' a .38,
[02:15.060]he in his forties
[02:16.210]I gotta lay down the block,
[02:17.980]
[02:18.940]when the block is hot
[02:20.010]
[02:21.450]I gotta use my imagination,
[02:23.180]
[02:24.350]to change the situation
[02:26.010]
[02:26.700]I gotta lay down the block,
[02:28.380]
[02:28.900]when the block is hot
[02:30.410]
[02:31.480]I gotta use my imagination,
[02:33.670]
[02:34.360]to change the situation
[02:35.740]
[02:36.560]（I gotta...） Anytime brothers
[02:37.740]can't get jobs, then they rob
[02:39.900]A man rather die than
[02:40.880]live on his knees and starve
[02:42.640]Cops steady askin' your man what happened
[02:44.940]First he tell then he stop,
[02:46.060]like he not really rattin'
[02:47.650]Guess he not really
[02:48.380]in that casket from a sawed-off
[02:49.920]
[02:50.540]Listen,
[02:50.790]peep game from the brain of an all-star
[02:53.180]The rain hurt niggaz bones who been shot
[02:55.420]Metal pins in their leg,
[02:56.890]they walk with a limp-hop
[02:58.460]The streets lie,
[02:59.050]so you better be cautious
[03:00.650]Your man'll fry you plus,
[03:02.050]everybody talkin'
[03:02.990]
[03:03.660]A vet, a General,
[03:04.520]don't step where I walked in
[03:05.990]Make your own path,
[03:07.020]be a legend in your skin
[03:08.530]Make your own cash,
[03:09.360]don't stress what I'm forcin'
[03:10.880]Don't expect more
[03:11.430]when you put in less work than all them
[03:13.520]
[03:14.070]Queensbridge projects has taught him,
[03:16.210]and that's for life
[03:17.520]You heard me right, I got the block
[03:19.350]
[03:20.160]When the block is hot
[03:21.540]
[03:30.490]（When the block is hot）
[03:31.460]
[03:34.430]I gotta use my imagination,
[03:35.970]
[03:36.740]to change the situation
[03:38.560]
[03:39.370]I gotta hold down the block,
[03:41.090]
[03:41.960]when the block is hot
[03:43.140]
[03:44.490]I gotta use my imagination,
[03:46.310]
[03:47.160]to change the situation
[03:48.880]
[03:49.740]I gotta hold down the block,
[03:51.360]
[03:52.430]when the block is hot
[03:53.630]
[03:55.020]I gotta use my imagination,