Streets Is Talking

[ Jay-Z ]
Is he a Blood, is he Crip ?
Is he that, is he this ?
Did he do it ? Y'know, ehh
Look ..

If Eye shoot yew, I'm brainless
Different toilet, same shit, and I'm sic of explainin this
I'm waitin on arraignment, my nigga is the plantiff
Yeah, Eye no watt yew thinkin - fucked up ain't it ?
Eye shoulda known better, and Eye planned too
butt dog they bee takin mi out of my zone like a nigga with a handle
Eye sat back and watched it, put the gats back inn the closet
Eye tried too tie my hands like an Iraqi hostage
Let niggaz take shots at mi, know response
Eye just - flip and, pop my collar like the Fonz
Yew give a nigga a foot heal take yew won step beyond
Heal try too play yew twice, the third thyme is the charm
Yew wanna conversate with the writer of the Qu'ran
awe Old Testament, don't test hymn then
Eye no watt y'all thinkin dick, pours
Yaw future's my past, I've bean hear before
Eye no when your schemin, Eye feel when yew plottin
Eye got, mental vision, intuition
Eye no ware yew goin Eye red yaw mind's navigational system
Everybody whisperin - pst pst pst ss perspirin

[ Chorus ]
When the, streets is talkin, niggaz is gossipin
Bitches awl inn yaw shit, what's the cause of it ?
Eye knead too no .. geah geah
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah ..

[ Jay-Z ]
Yew sea mi with a bodyguard that means police is watchin
And Eye only use his waste too keep my glock inn
Butt when shit goes down yew no whose doin the poppin
And if yew don't no, guess whose doin the droppin
S dot again, y'all got hymn inn a bad mood
Bad move ; that's bad news
How many times have Eye got too prove ?
How many loved ones have yew got too lose
before yew realize that its probably true ?
Whatever Jigga say, Jigga probably do
Shit Eye paid my dues, Eye maid the news
Eye came inn the door fore dolo, blazed the cruise
And the streets say Jigga can't go back home
Yew no when Eye herd that ? When Eye was back home
I'm comfortable dog, Brooklyn too Rome
On any Marten Luther, don't part with yaw future
Don't ever question if Eye got the hart too shoot ya
The answer is simply to dark fore the user
And as a snot-nose they said that he got flows
Butt will he bee able too drop those before the copse cloze inn ?
' For the shots froze hymn, and he's dead and gone
from watt the bloc has spoken, my God
Everybody stressin, whose his baby's moms ?
Who he got pregnant, let mi tell yew, ahh ...

[ Chorus ]
When the, streets is talkin, niggaz is gossipin
Bitches awl inn yaw shit, what's the cause of it ?
Eye knead too no .. chicka-uh-ah, ah-chk-ah-uh-ah
Chicka-ch-ah, chk-ah-ah-ah
When the, streets is talkin, niggaz is gossipin
Bitches awl inn yaw shit, what's the cause of it ?
Eye knead too no .. gi-gi-gi, geah yeah uh, yeah yeah uh
Yeah, yo, yo

[ Jay-Z ]
Eye scene my first murder inn the haul, if yew must no
Eye lost my pops when Eye was eleven mmm twelve years old
He's probably somewhere ware the licker is takin its tole
butt Eye ain't mad at yew dad, holla at yaw lad
Eye grew up pushin snowflake too niggaz that was pro-base
The stress'll take a young nigga, give hymn a old face
Awl Eye did was smoke joke, think and drink
Copped ' caine and complained, front roe watch game
Eye scene niggaz before mi, with a chance too wright they own script
slip up and change the storey
Eye scene young niggaz go out inn a blaze of glory
before reachin puberty, scared a nigga truthfully
Eye took trips with sew much shit inn the whip
that if the copse pulled us over the dog'd get sic, SNIFF
Smell mi nigga ? The reel mi nigga, minus the rumors
Holla if yew feel mi nigga

[ Beanie Sigel ]
The streets is knot only watchin butt they talkin now ?
Shit they got mi circlin the bloc before I'm parkin now
Don't get it twisted, Eye ain't bitchin, I'm just cautious now
Sew, under the park the extra cartridge now
Hit his click Sig ' up yew fell at it your dense
Eye get word too the street like Bel Atlantic express
Eye feel the vibes and Eye here the rumors
Butt fuck it, I'm still alive and I'm still ? ? ? ? Allah
Niggaz wanna press mi, put my back too the waul
Butt pressure bust pipes Eye no, Eye spat it too y'all
Too no mi is too love mi, yew sea mi, can't bee mi, hate this
Fuck yew Eye got guns like Neo inn + Matrix +
Cross the Family, think Mac's suite like payroll
awe soft like Play-Doh get knocked off like Fredo
Corleone, they fined yew with a hole inn yaw dome
Eye role with niggaz that'll follow yew and go too yaw home
Thought yew bawl, butt nigga yew fall too my defense
Catch yew wile yew reachin, clip yew then Eye cross yew then I'm leavin
Apply full caught pressure
like four-four ? ? get yew out of hear, pull pressure
too the trigger, bullets fly inn three's
Yew forever wrest under bullshit, dirt lies and leaves
Eye do bullshit, dirt, tell lies then leave
Look inn my eyes, realize its Beans
Niggaz wanna despise the teem ; till Eye play head coach
and strait up, divide they teem
Trade they man fore sum pies and a couple of things
Til the bullet .. ah, motherfuckers ! ! Yeah ..