Understanding Each Other - Mi Ka

Take a Walk

Masta Ace

Blue skies, sunshine, what a day, let’s take a walk in a

Brownsville come on

Bed-Stuy come on

Fort Greene come on

Everybody come on

Queensbridge come on

South Bronx come on

Uptown come on

Everybody come on

Let’s take a walk through the deepest part of the hood

I wanna know who it was that said it was all good

He must’ve never been to the corner

And spent the half an hour or longer

Where you could smell reality stronger

Where they sell you grease in a box and hope that you die quicker

And if you’re old enough to walk to the store you can buy liquor

Where you can find a dice game at any time of the night

And somebody gets shot or stabbed every time there’s a fight

Where cats die in the blue sky and the sunlight

And ya bound to get clowned for not holdin ya gun right

By little kids with great game cause they learned to take aim

At a young age, and elude police, with a fake name

He’s tellin 'em «I'm Bobby Jackson from 3-B»

When the fact is he’s really Rashawn from 4-D

Hey this is going out to your hood straight from mine

Aiyyo, let’s take a walk in blue skies and sunshine, come on

Blue skies, sunshine

What a day to take a walk in the…

Over here it’s either rap, hustle crack or play ball

And gats niggas carry ain’t small

The cats that used to be kids when you ran the halls, is the drug lords

His broad’s the same chick that liked you from the 4th floor

Her older brother he the neighborhood bully

You and him cool but he keep playin ya boy cause he pussy

Where the old ladies be up in ya B. I

Callin nine-eleven every time you in the yard tryin to be high

Dice games can turn into a shootout quick

If you sayin he aced then he sayin he sixed

People waitin for the mail to get they check

In blue skies and sunshine you gotta give respect to get respect

You know

Blue skies (uh-huh), sunshine (sunshine)

What a day to take a walk in the… (let's take a walk)

Compton come on

Long Beach come on

5th Ward come on

Everybody come on

Brick City come on

Cabrini Green come on

West Philly come on

Everybody come on

And oh yeah, if you see a girl on the block, be sure 'fore you rush over

Cause 14 year old girls be dressed like they much older

See that young chick walkin the block tryin to get paid

Is in the same class as ya sister and still in the 10th grade

And ya might see your neighbor, down at the corner bodega

Buyin a malt liquor in exchange for a used Sega

You can even buy your clothes on the block, imagine that

From Versace to a Coogi sweater wit' a matchin hat

See this cat’s got a big bag of stuff that he just stole

It’s the same old routine, but it never gets old

And ya might catch a cab if you live on the right block

From Black Pearl to White Top yo they might stop

They got a bulletproof partition, cause niggas draw heat

But the driver, got a bigger one, up under the seat

See cats don’t really wanna kill, they tryin to eat

Yo ain’t it a nice day to take a walk in the street

Let’s go

Blue skies, sunshine

What a day to take a walk in the…