The Avenue-Kool Moe Dee

[ti:The Avenue] [ar:Kool Moe Dee] [al:Knowledge Is King] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Avenue (大道) - Kool Moe Dee [00:29.26]Bought a brand new car [00:30.53]Driving down the boulevard [00:32.15]Turn the corner [00:32.90]Like I wanna be chilin' hard [00:34.52]The screen is set [00:35.39]For me to get wet [00:36.71]Cause it wouldn't be right [00:38.27]If the ladies didn't sweat [00:39.64]Pull the seat back [00:40.64]To make contact [00:41.96]Eye to eye [00:42.77]You know I ain't living like that [00:44.39]I wear shades [00:45.27]I get paid [00:46.46]And when it comes to girls [00:47.93]And cops I can't get played [00:49.30]Fly girls that [00:50.25]Used to ignore me [00:51.38]I pull up [00:52.12]And let the car speak for me [00:53.00] [00:54.44]Beep beep [00:55.51]Enough said [00:56.44]Better hop in while the light's still red [00:58.82]Homeboys scatter [01:00.57]What's the matter [01:01.82]("Here come the cops") [01:02.00] [01:03.37]Oh yeah that again [01:04.94]Rather than [01:06.12]Beating them down [01:06.92]I just talk to the men [01:08.11] [01:09.35]They don't understand how I've got so much cash [01:11.48]Then I get mad and tell them to ask [01:13.92]Their daughter [01:14.67]I bet she bought a [01:15.86]Kool Moe Dee tape [01:17.11]For her recorder [01:18.30]We're not always [01:20.24]Thieves and thugs [01:21.36]And what law says [01:22.48]We gotta sell drugs [01:23.86]I get paid [01:24.79]And I'm making a killin' [01:25.00] [01:26.25]But when I come home [01:27.43]I just like chillin' [01:28.62]On the [01:29.74]Avenue a-avenue Avenue a-avenue [01:33.55]Avenue a-avenue Avenue a-avenue [01:37.80] [01:48.38]That's where the stars go [01:50.51]On the weekend [01:51.63]It's like a car show [01:53.20]Ladies flock to jock [01:54.51]Cars go by them [01:55.57]If I'm walking and talking [01:56.82]They ask what ya driving [01:57.95]When I peep that [01:59.26]Same old weak rap [02:00.51]Ask her her language [02:01.63]Tell her I don't speak that [02:03.07]Pull out a "G" [02:04.01]A car key and a Visa [02:05.45]Walk her to the car [02:06.70]Leave her there "see ya" [02:07.95]She didn't want [02:08.88]Nothin' else but a payday [02:10.32]Now she's sinking [02:11.57]Hollering Mayday [02:12.82]I knew her card [02:13.82]Cause two days ago [02:15.01]I saw that same slick girl [02:16.39]In a broken-down Yugo [02:17.00] [02:17.99]With a hustler [02:18.61]Layin' low [02:19.99]Couldn't drive his Benz [02:21.37]Cause the cops said so [02:22.61]Your homeboy got shot [02:23.86]In front of your crack spot [02:25.17]You move cause it got to hot [02:26.55]But not on that block [02:27.67]The cops are watching [02:28.00] [02:28.93]Baiting and plotting [02:29.17] [02:30.11]Setting you up [02:31.05]For the raid in the block and [02:32.55]When they come [02:33.36]You all got to go [02:34.86]But not Kool Moe [02:36.05]Cause they all know [02:37.30]The knot I got [02:38.36]Is way over their knot [02:39.80]But I'm working [02:40.99]That's why they're not [02:42.30]After me [02:43.42]They're after you [02:44.73]Cause I'm just chillin' [02:45.92]On the [02:47.30]Avenue a-avenue Avenue a-avenue [02:52.04]Avenue a-avenue Avenue a-avenue [02:55.92] [03:06.73]Homeboys wanna get paid [03:07.98] [03:09.71]We can do this [03:11.09]The right way [03:12.02]You'll get money and respect [03:14.46]Livin' large and correct [03:16.46]Then come back through the neighborhood [03:18.96]When you look good [03:20.21]We all look good [03:21.40]Cause it's all for one [03:22.71]And one for all [03:23.90]It's got to be a better way [03:25.52]To get the money y'all