Respect - 2005 Remaster

[00:11.58] No people pon gun men, seen? (big up, big up)
[00:16.34] Comes on 94' where the African people and [?]
[00:18.81] [?] on the corner
[00:21.47] Watch this, lawd
[00:22.72] Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem
[00:25.82] Gun men alone, keep gun men friend
[00:28.24] Fire bun, fi all the informer dem
[00:30.56] Informer lone keep informer friend
[00:33.07] Nineteen-seventy something, nigga I don't sweat the date
[00:36.29] My moms is late so I had to plan my escape
[00:38.78] Out the skins, in this world of fly girls
[00:41.12] Tanqueray and Hennessy until I cold hurl
[00:43.92] Ten months in this gut, what the fuck
[00:48.58] I wish moms would hurry up so I could get buck
[00:51.38] Wild juvenile ripping mics and shit
[00:52.60] New York, New York, ready for the likes of this
[00:54.80] Then came the worst date, May 21st
[00:57.96] 2: 19, that's when my momma water burst
[00:59.53] No spouse in the house so she rode for self
[01:01.46] To the hospital, to see if she could get a little help
[01:05.82] Umbilical cord's wrapped around my neck
[01:08.35] I'm seeing my death and I ain't even took my first step
[01:11.25] I made it out, I'm bringing mad joy
[01:13.48] The doctor looked and said, "He's going to be a bad boy"
[01:16.27] Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem
[01:19.46] Gun men alone, keep gun men friend
[01:21.97] Fire bun, fi all the informer dem
[01:24.56] Informer lone keep informer friend
[01:27.52] Now I'm thirteen, smoking blunts, making cream
[01:30.61] On the drug scene, fuck a football team:
[01:33.35] Risking ruptured spleens by the age of sixteen
[01:35.24] Hearing the coach scream ain't my lifetime dream!
[01:37.58] I mean I want to blow up, stack my dough up
[01:40.35] So school I didn't show up, it fucked my flow up
[01:43.19] Mom said that I should grow up and check myself
[01:45.82] Before I wreck myself, disrespect myself
[01:48.78] Put the drugs on the shelf? Nah, couldn't see it
[01:52.03] Scarface, King of New York, I want to be it
[01:54.58] Rap was secondary, money was necessary
[01:57.05] Until I got incarcerated--kinda scary
[01:59.73] C74-Mark 8 set me straight
[02:03.27] Not able to move behind the great steel gate
[02:05.17] Time to contemplate, damn, where did I fail?
[02:07.65] All the money I stacked was all the money for bail
[02:10.36] Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem
[02:13.17] Gun men alone, keep gun men friend
[02:15.85] Fire bun, fi all the informer dem
[02:18.56] Informer lone keep informer friend
[02:21.32] Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem
[02:23.99] Gun men alone, keep gun men friend
[02:26.53] Fire bun, fi all the informer dem
[02:29.35] Informer lone keep informer friend
[02:32.84] Ninety-four, now I explore new horizons
[02:35.68] Mama smile when she see me, that's surprising
[02:37.53] Honeys is tantalizing, they freak all night
[02:40.02] Peep ducking cops on the creep all night
[02:42.74] As I open my eyes and realizing I changed
[02:45.40] Not the same deranged child stuck up in the game
[02:48.38] And to my niggas living street life
[02:51.17] Learn to treat life to the best, put stress to rest
[02:53.12] Still tote your vest man, niggas be tripping
[02:55.93] In the streets without a gat? Nah, nigga you're slipping
[02:58.62] If I'm pimping on The F with weed on my breath
[03:01.81] Original hustler with the muffler on the Tec
[03:05.19] Respect to the macks in the Ac's
[03:07.51] To the freaks in the Jeeps, lick shots to my peeps
[03:10.23] Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem
[03:18.67] Gun men alone, keep gun men friend
[03:20.95] Fire bun, fi all the informer dem
[03:23.72] Informer lone keep informer friend
[03:26.32] Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem
[03:28.88] Gun men alone, keep gun men friend
[03:31.79] Fire bun, fi all the informer dem
[03:34.40] Informer lone keep informer friend
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[03:41.63] Now this is Diana King doing a Yankee thing
[03:46.46] In a Biggie Small's thing, do it, Ja!
[03:49.16] Have Mercy!
[03:51.89] The gunman in all de party
[03:53.32] And everybody feel irie
[03:55.88] And everybody just follow me, follow me, follow me!
[03:58.58] Have Mercy!
[04:00.96] The halloween at de party
[04:02.93] And everybody look irie
[04:05.43] Now I demand them sexy, sexy, sexy
[04:09.74] Do it!
[04:12.27] No mercy for the people [?]
[04:20.35] [?] seen?
[04:24.30] Hardcore thing we are be with
[04:26.08] Oh yes, we are the best
[04:27.83] Shit mami, damn, why you actin like that man?
[04:29.66] 'Cause I don't be doin' this
[04:31.40] I'm sayin', you know it ain't nothin'
[04:32.87] It's just part of sex, ya know'm saying
[04:33.98] But you know I don't do this, I don't even know how to do this
[04:35.11] I'm just sayin', jus-just a little peck mami, for daddy
[04:36.27] Just a little peck
[04:37.51] Like that?
[04:38.75] That's what I'm sayin', yeah
[04:40.04] You know I don't be doin' this though tho', you know that
[04:42.05] Whatever bitch, damnit
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