I Gotcha Back-Genius/GZA

[00:00.30] [00:11.44]i gotcha back, but you best to watch your front [00:14.10]cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts [00:16.71]i gotcha back, but you best to watch your front [00:19.30]cause it's the niggas who front (they be pulling stunts) [00:22.17] [00:22.49]i was always taught my do's and don'ts [00:24.47]for do's i did, and for don'ts, i said i won't [00:27.35]i'm from brooklyn, a place where stars are born [00:29.51]streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn [00:32.31]and ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up [00:35.23]from fiends, cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up [00:38.13]kids are slinging in my lobby [00:40.41]little steve and bobby [00:41.45]getting paid but it's a life-threatening hobby [00:43.83]yeah, they still play hide-and-seek [00:45.84]the fiends seek for the crack, and they hide and let the cops peep [00:48.87]grown folks say they should be out on their own [00:51.69]before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home [00:54.38]because they lifestyle is hectic, so f**king hectic [00:57.65]blaow! blaow! blaow! bullets are ejected [00:59.53]my lifestyle was so far from well [01:01.96]could've wrote a book with a title "age 12 and going through hell" [01:05.12]then i realized the plan [01:06.76]i'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man [01:10.42]so i don't only watch my back, i watch my front [01:13.22]cause it's the niggas who front, they be pulling stunts [01:15.91]back on the ave of livonia and bristol with a pistol [01:18.68]sticking up pamela and crystal [01:21.39]you know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest [01:23.82]kid come home from doing the bid and nothing changes [01:26.38]what is the meaning of crime (what?) [01:28.92]is it criminals robbing innocent motherf**kers everytime? [01:31.89]little shorties take walks to the schoolyard [01:34.69]trying to solve the puzzles to why is life so hard [01:37.30]then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow! [01:40.49]shots ring off and now one of them lay down [01:43.57]it's so hard to escape the gunfire [01:45.53]i wish i could rule it out like an umpire [01:48.40]but it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist [01:51.83]only the players change, so [01:53.44] [01:54.10]i gotcha back, but you best to watch your front [01:56.32]cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts [01:59.09]i gotcha back, but you best to watch your front [02:01.65]cause it's the niggas who front (they be pulling stunts) [02:04.49](3x) [02:26.99] [02:27.25]i gotcha back (8x) [02:36.96]i gotcha back so you best to watch your front [02:39.52]cause it's the niggas who front, that be pulling stunts [02:42.19]i gotcha back but you best to watch your front [02:44.83]it's the niggas who front, that be pulling stunts [02:47.62] [04:05.34]*old man* [04:09.60]your, tech, nique, is, mag-ni-ficent [04:20.59]when cut across the neck [04:24.75]a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say [04:30.60]i'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday [04:37.08]to hear that sound [04:40.97]but to have it happen to my own neck is... ridiculous [04:48.23]*man gasps for air*