[00:02.14]Aw yeah, word up, word to mother.
[00:05.32]Here comes G. Rap with another one y'all
[00:07.90]We going to swing this like this...
[00:10.80]I'm right in front of my front steps thinking of a plan
[00:13.29]Looking like Raggedy Ann, no dough in hand, kicking a can
[00:16.17]Thinking of a plot to pull some bank in
[00:18.20]Because I'm dead and stinking
[00:19.43]Soles on my shoes winking, t-shirt is shrinking
[00:21.47]Soon I see some thighs and my eyes open wide quick
[00:24.32]Who's that with you, chick? Bill Blass my sidekick
[00:27.05]What's up, black? Give his hand a smack
[00:29.52]Then up pulls a Cadillac, yo baby we'll be back
[00:32.30]Jumped right on inside, not too many people saw us
[00:34.89]Thinking about who gotta get robbed because the mob got a job for us
[00:38.14]The drove us down to this other section
[00:40.32]Of town where the clowns there be paying for protection
[00:43.07]They want us to send a message to Jimmy the bartender
[00:45.78]Lend a friend the money, next you're ripping off his car fenders
[00:49.00]He's coming up short cause he snorts
[00:51.12]Coke, ****, nope, and hope he don't get caught
[00:53.81]He owes some Benjamin Franklins, every last bit of em
[00:56.40]But Jimmy's pockets are empty, so now we gotta get rid of him
[00:59.20]But Jimmy's wife is with him and they don't want to involve her
[01:01.81]Hopped out the back seat they gave me a revolver
[01:04.56]Blass, you distract him while I go and whack him
[01:07.23]Entered through the back side of the bar and then attacked him
[01:09.86]He's screaming for his life, reaching for his wife
[01:12.45]Shot him in the back of the head and shanked him with a knife
[01:15.30]And that goes for anybody who's gotta pay they dues
[01:18.01]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[01:20.61]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[01:23.40]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[01:26.17]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[01:28.70]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[01:31.32]Suckers I clobber, because my town is full of cops and robbers
[01:34.24]You're not promised tomorrow in this Little Shop of Horrors
[01:36.98]So I got to get with the business and hit quick
[01:39.62]Moneygrip's pocket's looking thick so I stick slick
[01:42.40]Hold it right there, hands in the air, I know you got the loot
[01:45.07]Or better yet, face down on the ground, empty your pockets troop
[01:47.97]Hit the deck, I got the Tec right on your neck
[01:50.25]And I expect to make a buck to heck with a traveler's check
[01:53.32]But if a vic' tries to choke me
[01:55.37]I'll have to smoke him like I'm Smokey the Bear, so okie dokie
[01:58.39]Goodbye, or bon voyage, have a good journey
[02:01.02]Don't even try begging for your life, that don't concern me
[02:03.78]So to the next weasel that freezes
[02:05.75]Your begging and your pleases only getting ya closer to meeting Jesus
[02:09.13]Yeah, I shake a schmuck just to make a buck
[02:11.31]Then I break a duck and if the duck gotta get bucked then I don't give a ****
[02:14.56]Hyper as a sniper piping *****s like a plumber
[02:17.15]Cold vicking and sticking up the ones that run the numbers
[02:19.89]Or even a bigger score, the lady in the liquor store
[02:22.77]Go inside then kick in the door, pull her then I'm stickin her for
[02:25.50]Money or your life, honey hurry and choose
[02:27.62]But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues
[02:30.59]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[02:33.20]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[02:35.77]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[02:38.40]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[02:41.45]Extra extra read all about it in the papers
[02:44.03]The boss tried to rape us, so we tossed him off the skyscraper
[02:46.86]Because he pulled some other people to try and hit us
[02:49.36]Get us, but none of them did us, he must be trying to kid us
[02:52.08]But that's dead, I'll thank God in the red, 'cross the bread borders
[02:55.09]So nobody can short us, he fled down to headquarters
[02:57.81]Ready to put some work in, we're not a lazy crew, we'll do a job or two
[03:00.40]But yo, the man can't even stick me with some Krazy Glue
[03:03.14]Ready to tore him even more because she saw him
[03:05.66]We took out all the lookouts in the front and kicked his door in
[03:08.54]What's up snake, why'd you violate?
[03:10.47]They called him a chazer (What's that?)
[03:11.95]Yo, that's a pig that don't fly straight
[03:13.86]Getting ready to jab him, I grabbed him by the necktie
[03:16.47]Homie tried to get fly, and swing I gave him a decked eye
[03:19.12]You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go
[03:21.79]We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window
[03:24.59]Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown
[03:27.39]Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down
[03:30.00]I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes
[03:32.36]But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues
[03:35.25]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[03:37.71]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[03:40.51]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues
[03:43.12]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues