Ya Hear Me

[Intro] I’ve been living so foul so long, I swear I think it’s the only way I know how to live The streets made a monster in Jozeemo I might need some help Let’s go [Hook] The streets is all I know, the drugs is what I do The crime is a damn shame, God, you hear me? The streets is all I know, the drugs is what I do The crime is a damn shame [Verse 1] You want to talk about hammers? Well I own some You want to talk about cases? Well I got a few Probably ‘cause I shot at you I’m from the east side of Durham where the cops patrol And live by the code “lock and load” Glocks explode and grandmothers end up crying Half the time, the wrong nigga always end up dying What’s a daddy? Ain’t nobody got them, we got to suffer Knowing some dirty nigga in the back fucking our mother School shopping, got two outfits, the other kids noticed Started joking, shit, I ain’t been back since I was a little nigga fiending to eat And when the weather got cold, I found out the true meaning of heat Fuck a radiator kerosene I was 11 years old with a nine, I was strapped with a inf beam Way too young for this grown man shit But I’ll be damned if I’m on clutching with a two-hand grip Come on [Hook 4x] The streets is all I know, the drugs is what I do The crime is a damn shame, God, you hear me? [Verse 2] Yo I heard of CREAM but the DREAM seem astounding ‘Cause in my hood, drugs rule everything around me Never hit the mall, the booth will bring the stores to you It’s amazing what some hard can do Make a mother take the food right out of a child’s mouth A preacher get to losing religion and wild out I’ve seen it all first hand All-nighters on the block scared as fuck trying to bubble off my first gram I got robbed, I got punched in the eye And said “fuck it”, next nigga try to play me got to die So before I got posted up, 40-cal holsted up Been about my life, took the strip and lit the whole shit up That’s when the beef came, the hood had my back, jack So that’s when the east came and Jozee got the street fame The LOV was running shit, we had it locked, stocked, and barreled Thorough, that’s even before the summer hit [Hook]