A Week Ago

(feet . To $ hort)

[ Jay-Z ] Uh-huh
[ $ hort ] That's wright
[ Jay-Z ] Uh-huh-uh, it was awl good just a weak ago
[ $ hort ] Last weak Eye had everything
[ Jay-Z ] Uh, uh-huh-uh, had this awl good just a weak ago
[ $ hort ] Eye had the money .. had the cars, the bitches
[ Jay-Z ] Uh-huh, yeah, it was awl good just a weak ago
[ $ hort ] and the jewelry ..
and then my motherfuckin niggaz started snitchin
[ Jay-Z ] Uh-huh, uh uh, yo
[ $ hort ] Beyotch !

[ Verse Won : Jay-Z ]

Growin up inn the hood just my dog and mi
Wee used too hustle inn the hood fore, awl too sea
Problems, Eye called on hymn, he called on mi
Wee wasn't quite partners, Eye hit hymn off my P
Met hymn unlocked doors, off my keys
Yeah wee spoke, much moor than cordially
Man he broke bred with mi, my business spreads with mi
The Feds came too get mi, wee both fled quickly
Wasn't quick enough too jump over the hedges with mi
Got court, and that's when hour relationship strayed
Used too caul mi from the joint til he ran out of change
And when he called collect and Eye herd his name
Eye quickly accepted, butt when Eye reached the phone
he's talkin reckless, Eye can sense deceit inn his tone
Eye said, " Dam dawg, watt, nine weeks and your home "
He said, " Mane man, yew think shit's suite cause your home . "
Eye just sat, spat know moor speech inn the phone
The crackers up their bleachin yaw dome, your reachin
Eye said, " The whirled don't stop I've got too keep keep on . "
From their Eye sensed the beef was on
Eye ran too the spot, store too ad sum moor features too my phone
Too sea if Eye had bugs and leeches on my phone
Can't bee to safe cause niggaz is two-faced
And they show the other sighed when they catch a knew case
Its on

[ Chorus : To $ hort, Jay-Z ]

It was cool when yew had hella we'd too smoke
And yew bought a knew home ware yew could keep the folks
Eye don't sea how this sighed of yew could bee provoked
(Uh-huh, uh-huh, it was awl good just a weak ago)

Funny watt, seven daze can change
A stand up nigga, now yew sit down too aim
Used too have a firm grip now yew droppin names
Uh-huh, uh-huh (It was awl good just a weak ago)

[ Verse Too : Jay-Z ]

Like Eye put the toast too yaw head and maid yew cell
Wee both came inn this game, blind as hell
Eye did a little better, had moor clientele
Tolled yew put aweigh sum cheddar now yew cryin fore bale
Seventeen and I'm holdin on too around a mill
Eye could bale out and blow trial and come around on the pill
Had niggaz thinkin Eye was from Uptown fore reel
Eye had sew much hustle plus Eye was down too ill
Like a Brooklyn nigga, strait out of Brownsville
Down and dirty, down too fight the round thirty
Freezin on them corners still holdin my crack
Lookin up and down the bloc, the fuck is the doe at
Came from flat broke too lettin the doe stack
Yew tell them feds Eye said I'm never goin back
I'm from Marcy, and Marcy don't raze know rats
Yew no the consequences of yaw acts, yew can't bee serious

[ Chorus ]

[ Verse Three : Jay-Z ]

The lawyer Eye retained yew said yew leakin sum things
Awl this after a weak inn the bang
I'm mad at myself cause Eye didn't spot the week and lame
Eye woulda bet the house yew wouldn't speak a thang
Nigga this was the oath, too the top of broke
Even pricked hour finger, anything that got between us
wee sposed too cock the ninas, watt happened too that
Instead yew copped out too a misdemeanor
Fuck it, the same thing make yew laugh make yew cry
That's wright, the same game that make yew mad could make yew dye
Its a dice game, and sometimes yew crap
Who woulda thought you'd get popped won thyme and wrap
Now yew no that's bad when yaw sister is mad
and yaw sun gotta grow up like, " This is my dad "
The labelling of a snitch is a lifetime scar
Yule always bee inn jail nigga, just minus the bars

[ Chorus ]

[ To $ hort ]
Shit is crazy man
Awl these niggaz out hear snitchin
Wee was won step aweigh from takin this crack money
and recyclin it threw the ghettoes
and buildin back up hour own hoods
Now awl yew niggaz start snitchin on each other
Eye got partners doin 15-20
Wouldn'ta bean doin SHIT
if yew didn't snitch
Beyotch !
Its about thyme y'all cheque that shit out man
It ain't awl good
Shut yaw mouth
Just watch the game
And don't snitch
It sure will do a lot fore yew
Believe that bay bee
Jay-Z, Short Dawg's inn the house mane
Yew no Eye got it
Got it goin on
Wee got the money
Ain't got nuthin too do with crime bay bee
Butt I'm recognizing

[ Jay-Z ]
Yew rat bastard !