Streets Is Watching-Jay-Z

[ti:Streets Is Watching (Album Version)] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (Edited Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.40]Streets Is Watching (街道观看) - Jay-Z (杰斯) [00:01.56]Written by：Labi Siffre/Shawn Carter/David Willis [00:03.63] [00:20.30]Look if I shoot you I'm brainless [00:22.37]But if you shoot me then you're famous [00:24.42]What's a ni**a to do [00:25.48]When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking [00:28.11]Waiting for you to break make your first mistake [00:30.45]Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted [00:33.25]But my time is money and twenty five I can't afford it [00:36.19]Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates [00:38.44]*s you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it [00:41.32]Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass [00:43.71]This rhyme you're operating on b**ch time [00:46.03]Y'all *s ain't worth my shells all y'all *s [00:48.43]Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneilly [00:51.54]The type to start a beef then run to the cops [00:53.96]When I see you in the street got one in the drop [00:56.40]When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop [00:59.00]Taking pictures with some b**ches in front of the drop [01:01.47]The streets is watching [01:02.39]When the streets is watching [01:03.57]Blocks keep clocking [01:04.49]Waiting for you to break make your first mistake [01:09.16] [01:12.05]Can't ignore it [01:12.81]Now it's hard not to kill *s [01:14.19]It's like a full time job not to kill *s can't chill [01:17.19]The streets is watching [01:18.76]When you froze your arms [01:20.31]*s want to test you when your gun goes warm [01:22.40]Can't get caught with your feet up got to keep your heat up [01:25.30]Sweet *s running 'round swearing sh*t is sweeter [01:27.92]Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader [01:30.38]Everybody want a piece of your Scrilla so you gotta keep it realer [01:33.73]Kidnap *s want to steal you [01:35.68]Broke *s don't want no cash they just want to kill ya [01:38.73]For the name *s don't know the rules [01:40.66]Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool [01:43.50]Force your hand of course that man's plotting [01:46.28]Smarten up the streets is watching it's on [01:50.38] [01:53.85]When the streets is watching [01:55.14]Blocks keep clocking [01:56.38]Waiting for you to break make your first mistake [01:58.57]Can't ignore it [02:00.99] [02:03.26]My street mentality flip bricks forever [02:05.80]Know me and money we like armed co defendants [02:07.91]Ni**a we stick together [02:09.21]Sh*t whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground [02:11.78]Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around [02:14.38]And you can look up and down the streets and I can't be found [02:16.93]Put in twenty four hour shifts but that ain't me now [02:19.37]Got a face too easy to trace *s mouths got slow leaks [02:22.19]Had to hire a team of workers couldn't play those streets [02:24.54]See out of space like Mercury you jerkin me hectic [02:27.36]Had to call upon my wolves to send *s the message [02:29.84]I said this 'let's play fair and we can stay here [02:32.53]I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare' [02:35.02]Ay there's money to be made and *s got the picture [02:37.69]Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer [02:40.01]Then hard times fell upon us [02:41.82]Half of my staff had warrants [02:43.07]The other half in the casket lay dormant [02:45.46]I felt like life was cheating me [02:46.80]For the first time in my life I was getting money [02:48.95]But it was like my conscience was eating me [02:50.63]Was this a lesson god teaching me was he saying that [02:53.03]I was playing the game straight from hell from which few came back [02:55.91]Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad [02:58.40]Was *s thinking simplify was turning coc*ine crack [03:00.78]Ain't a whole lot of brain to that [03:02.44]Just trying to maintain a stack [03:03.56]And not collide like two trains that's on the same track [03:05.90]But get my life together like the oils I bring back [03:08.75]In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot [03:11.26]Got my transporter take it across the border then stop [03:13.89]To set up shop with a quarter of rock [03:15.93]Here's the plan [03:16.81]For three straight weeks *s slaughtered the block [03:19.18]But you know the game is food it f**ked up me and my dudes [03:21.98]One drought can wipe a ni**a out faster than the cops [03:24.29]And this unstable way of living just had to stop [03:26.77]Half of my *s got time we done real things [03:29.44]By '94 became the subject of half of y'all *s rhymes [03:32.34]Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my sh*t [03:34.78]But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this sh*t [03:37.21]The life and times of a demonic mind excited with crime [03:39.77]And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind [03:42.26]I figured sh*t why risk myself I just write it in rhymes [03:44.96]And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine [03:47.62]The mind state of a ni**a who boosted the crime rate [03:50.25]So high in one city they send national guards to get me