Hold Down The Block

[00:09.96] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
[00:15.06] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[00:20.23] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
[00:25.49] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[00:30.24] Yeah, Feds feast on street dons, look at their teeth showin'
[00:33.69] Salivating at the mouth, South to East Orange
[00:36.32] Keep pourin' that liquor, but nigga don't sleep on it
[00:38.84] You'll be giving up your Jesus piece to your peeps to pawn it
[00:41.69] For legal fees in the penal dorm
[00:43.66] Screamin' on the horn with 'bout 30 years on your conscience
[00:46.84] I'm watchin' brothers disappear, it's appallin'
[00:49.23] Some dudes had just only a year of ballin'
[00:51.79] Counter-intelligence found a strange evidence (when the block is hot)
[00:53.96] Still we behind the wheel with heat on us, hangin' with predicates
[00:57.26] Position we placed in caves in, so they got us caged in
[01:00.37] Waves spinnin' like Mike Bivens from New Edition agin' (I gotta-, when the block is hot)
[01:03.43] I got families I'm feedin', 'cause my mans is bleedin'
[01:06.21] Every five seconds look in all directions
[01:08.61] I come through prepared, I give 'em a call
[01:10.64] "I'm close, bring them guns downstairs"
[01:12.16] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
[01:17.42] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[01:22.62] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot (hold it down)
[01:27.83] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[01:32.52] Uh, uh, it's beef week, Monday, murder
[01:35.17] Two niggas dead, Tuesday
[01:36.63] Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day
[01:38.54] Friday, somebody-gotta-die day
[01:40.54] Saturday, put the gat away
[01:42.49] Chillin' with your chick and a bag of haze
[01:44.55] Wonderin' how it's all gon' end and what type of way
[01:47.30] 'Cause Sunday back to gunplay
[01:49.04] Most shit start over nothin'
[01:50.89] And get finished quick 'cause the art of repercussion
[01:53.88] Yeah, I seen it, a G going out indecent (when the block is hot)
[01:56.59] Takin' a plea agreement, thinkin' he secret
[01:59.19] Escape the crime scene, now you live straight like 9:15
[02:02.70] Then one-time intervene (I gotta hold-)
[02:04.24] My man ain't like me sayin' I don't care if I die
[02:06.88] But the SIG Sauer on me now I'm scared to die
[02:09.47] You thinkin' the one I send to clap you be a shorty
[02:12.06] But he old school, holdin' a .38, he in his 40s
[02:14.52] I gotta hold down the block when the block is hot
[02:19.65] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[02:24.73] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot (yeah, word to mother)
[02:30.07] I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation (yeah)
[02:35.11] (I gotta-) anytime brothers can't get jobs, then they rob
[02:38.15] A man rather die than live on his knees and starve
[02:40.88] Cops steady askin' your man what happened
[02:43.13] First he tell, then he stop, like he not really rattin'
[02:45.79] Guess he not really in that casket from a sawed-off (when the block is hot)
[02:48.56] Listen, peep game from the brain of an all-star
[02:51.46] The rain hurt niggas' bones who been shot
[02:53.82] Metal pins in their leg, they walk with a limp-hop
[02:56.59] The streets lie (when the block is hot), so you better be cautious
[02:58.97] Your man'll fry you plus everybody talkin'
[03:01.89] A vet, a General, don't step where I walked in
[03:04.21] Make your own path, be a legend in your skin (hold down the block, when the block is hot)
[03:06.80] Make your own cash, don't stress what I'm flossin'
[03:09.13] Don't expect more when you put in less work than all them
[03:12.30] Queensbridge projects has taught him
[03:14.86] And that's for life, you heard me, right? I got the block
[03:18.22] When the block is hot
[03:28.53] When the block is hot
[03:32.35] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[03:37.51] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
[03:42.71] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
[03:47.95] I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
[03:53.11] I gotta use my imagination to change the situation
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