Take a Walk

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 [Verse 1 - Masta Ace] 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... [Verse 2 - Apocalypse] 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 [Verse 3 - Masta Ace] 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...