Quake - BROCKBEATS

I grew up on the crime side

The New York Times side

Stayin' alive was no jive

Had secondhands

Mom’s bounced on old man

So then we moved to Shaolin land

A young youth, yo rockin' the gold tooth, 'Lo goose

Only way I be gettin' the G off was drug loot

And let’s start it like this, son

Rollin' with this one and that one

Pullin' out gats for fun

But it was just a dream for the teen who was a fiend

Started smokin' woolas at 16

And runnin' up in gates and doin' hits for high stakes

Makin' my way on fire escapes

No question I would speed for cracks and weed

The combination made my eyes bleed

No question I would flow off

And try to get the dough all

Stickin' up white boys in ball courts

My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater

Times is rough and tough like leather

Figured out I went the wrong route

So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out

Catchin' keys from across seas

Rollin' in MPV’s, every week we made forty G’s

Yo brothers respect mine, or anger the TEC-9

Ch-pow, move from the gate, now

It’s been twenty-two long hard years

I’m still strugglin'

Survival got me buggin'

But I’m alive on arrival

I peep at the shape of the streets

And stay awake to the

Ways of the world 'cause deep

A man with a dream with plans to make cream

Which failed;

I went to jail at the age of fifteen

A young buck sellin' drugs and such

Who never had much

Tryin' to get a clutch

At what I could not touch

The court played me short

Now I face incarceration

Pacin', goin' upstate’s my destination

Handcuffed in the back of a bus

Forty of us

Life as a shorty

Shouldn’t be so rough

But as the world turned

I learned life is hell

Livin' in the world

No different from a cell

Every day I escape from Jakes givin' chase

Sellin' base, smokin' bones in the staircase

Though I don’t know why

I chose to smoke sess

I guess that’s the time

When I’m not depressed

But I’m still depressed, and I ask:

«What's it worth?»

Ready to give up so I seek the old Earth

Who explained workin' hard

May help you maintain

To learn to overcome

The heartaches and pain

We got stick-up kids

Corrupt cops, and crack rocks

And stray shots, all on the block that stays hot

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof

To kick the truth to the young black youth

But shorty’s runnin' wild

Smokin' sess, drinkin' beer

And ain’t tryin' to hear what I’m kickin' in his ear

Neglected for now, but yo

It gots to be accepted

That what?

That life is hectic