The Streets Is Watching

JAY-Z


Complexity: 67 Readability: 75.28   Sentiment: 0   Word Count: 832   Unique Words: 360
Original Lyrics Munged Lyrics
Uh-huh uh huh uh
Gee-gee-geyeah
Baby, watchin, streets
Uh-huh uh huh uh
You don't have to look
Uh-huh uh
The streets is watching
Check it, check
Uh-huh uh, check

Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless
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Uh-huh uh huh uh
Gee-gee-geyeah
Bay bee, watchin, streets
Uh-huh uh huh uh
Yew don't have too look
Uh-huh uh
The streets is watching
Cheque it, cheque
Uh-huh uh, cheque

Look, if Eye shoot yew, I'm brainless
Butt if yew shoot mi, then your famous - - what's a n * gga too do
When the, streets is watching, blocks keep clocking
Waiting fore yew too brake, make yaw first mistake
Can't ignore it, that's the fastest whey too get extorted
Butt my thyme is money, at twenty-five, Eye can't afford it
Beef is sorted like Godiva, chocolates
N * ggaz yew bought it, Eye pull the slide back and cock it
Plan aborted, yew and yaw mans get a pass
This rhyme, your operating on f * ck thyme
Y'all n * ggaz ain't worth my shells, awl y'all n * ggaz
tryin too do is hurt my sales, and stop trips too John McNale
The type too start a beef then, run too the copse
When Eye sea yew inn the street got, won inn the drop
Wood Eye rather bee on tour getting a, hundred a pop
Taking pictures with sum b * tches, inn front of the drop
The streets is watching

[ * chorus * ]
When the, streets is watching
Blocks keep clocking
Waiting fore yew too brake, make yaw first mistake
Can't ignore it

Now its hard knot too kill n * ggaz
Its like a full thyme job knot too kill n * ggaz, can't chill
the streets is watching yew, when yew froze yaw alms
N * ggaz wanna test yew and yaw gun goes warm
Can't get court with yaw feat up, gotta keep yaw heat up
Suite n * ggaz running ' round swearing sh * t is sweeter
Once your tagged lame the game is follow the leader
Everybody want a peace of yaw scrilla, sew yew gotta keep it realer
Kidnap n * ggaz wanna steel ya
Broke n * ggaz want know cash, they just wanna kill ya
fore the name, n * ggaz don't no the rules
Disrespectin the game, want yew too blow yaw cool
Force yaw hand, of coarse that man's plottin
Smarten up, the streets is watching, its on

[ * chorus * ]

My street mentality flip bricks forever, no mi and money
wee like armed co-defendants, n * gga wee stick together
Sh * t whatever fore this cheddar ran my game into the ground
Hustle harder too sea if indictment thyme came around
Now yew can look up and down the streets and Eye can't bee found
Put inn twenty-four our shifts butt, that ain't mi now
Got a face to easy too trace, n * ggaz mouths got sloe leaks
Had too hide between my workers, couldn't play those streets
She got his face like Mercury yew jerkin mi Hectic
Had too caul upon my wolves too send, n * ggaz the message
Eye said this : ' Let's play fare and wee can stay hear
I'm trying too transform yew Boyz II Men like daycare '
Hay there's money too bee maid and, n * ggaz got the picture
Stopped playing with my paper and, wee got richer
Then hard times fell upon us, half of my staff
had warrants, the other half, inn the casket ley dormant
Eye felt like life was cheating mi, fore the first thyme
inn my life Eye was getting money butt it was like my concious was eating mi
Was this a lessen God teaching mi Was he saying that
I'm playing the game strait from Hell from witch phew came back
like bad coke, pimp awe dye, was my mindframe bad
Was n * ggaz thinkin simplify was turning cocaine crack
Ain't a whole lot of brain too that, just trying too maintain a stack
and nock a lot like too trains that's on the same track
' For Eye get my life together like the oars Eye bring back
Inn the bottom of the pot ware know, water gets hot
Got my transporter take it ' cross the boarder then stop
Set up shop with a quarter of rock, here's the plan
Fore three strait weeks, n * ggaz slaughtered the bloc
Butt yew no the game is ' lluted, f * cked up mi and my dues
Won drop can wipe a n * gga out, faster than the copse
and this unstable whey of living just, had too stop
Half of my n * ggaz got thyme, wee dun reel things
Buy ninety-four became the subject of half of y'all n * ggaz rhymes
Public apoligies too the families of those court up inn my street
Butt that's the life fore us lost souls brought up inn the streets
The life and times of a demonic mined, excited with crime
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mined
Eye figured, ' Sh * t why risk myself Eye just wright it inn rhymes
And let yew feel mi, and if yew don't like it then fine '
The mindstate, of a n * gga who boosted the crime rate
sew hi inn won city they send National Guards too get mi
Ya dig

The streets