Backstreet-Anthony David

[ti:Backstreet] [ar:Anthony David] [al:As Above So Below] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Backstreet - Anthony David [00:20.86]The air is still the heat is rising [00:23.23]Summer time's on the horizon [00:25.86]Little girl with a baby crying [00:28.53]'Cause she's got no food to eat [00:31.16]And it ain't that nobody's listening [00:33.59]And it ain't that nobody cared [00:36.40]It's just that everybody's busy [00:38.96]Looking out for what is theirs [00:42.16]I'm a hustler on the corner [00:44.34]Making very little money [00:46.96]But down the block on the other corner [00:49.52]This nigger's down there getting paid [00:52.58]What's he doing that I ain't doing [00:54.82]He got clothes and fancy things [00:57.51]Big old car and pretty women [01:00.08]Watch what jealousy and envy brings [01:02.82]On the backstreet that's where I live [01:12.59] [01:13.78]On the backstreets there ain't nothing positive [01:23.72]Now up the block comes my man Cee Lo [01:26.65]Say what's happening how you feel [01:29.15]He don't care about no feral [01:31.59]'Cause he's known to keep it real [01:34.64]Peep what's happening down the block [01:36.93]Yo hood is down you're taking mine [01:39.61]Cee Lo knows about his business [01:42.30]So he runs it down one time [01:45.11]He get keys straight from Miami [01:47.54]Hooks it up and sells it cheap [01:50.24]You ain't getting nothing but old from Sally [01:53.11]So your prices are too steep [01:55.48]But I got just the thing you need son [01:58.45]If you really wanna win [02:00.82]Sunlight sparkles on his gold fronts [02:03.50]As he makes this evil grin [02:06.00]Take a walk on down to my crib [02:08.93]And let me show you something new [02:11.24]Now I got loads of guns and ammo [02:13.98]That I bought from this white dude [02:16.98]You could tell that I was down [02:19.17]That I was just the man to see [02:21.66]And he funded me and leased the cheese with [02:25.28]Of artillery on the backstreet [02:32.58]That's where I live on the backstreet yeah [02:42.13]There ain't nothing positive [02:48.30]Now in his bedroom it's amazing [02:50.99]He got guns of every kind [02:53.50]He lights a plant and we start blazing [02:56.18]Then I picked the one that shined [02:58.62]It's an old school Calico [03:01.43]Semi auto dark as night [03:04.23]It's just the thing I need [03:06.67]To make my situation tight [03:09.50]So he shows me how to load it [03:12.19]Since I don't know what to do [03:14.50]Aims toward the wall and it exploded [03:17.30]Through this poster of Ice Cube [03:20.05]It brought so much devastation [03:22.47]That it's obvious to me [03:25.09]That is just the thing [03:27.02]To separate your soul from your body [03:30.86]On the backstreet that's where I live [03:40.92]On the backstreet yeah there ain't nothing positive [03:48.13] [03:51.59]I went home and started planning [03:54.33]For he might come up at midnight [03:57.15]In the darkness catch him slipping [03:59.56]Take his rea up money is life [04:02.24]I'll just catch him as he goes out [04:04.81]To his car to make a run [04:07.32]Now you can't front when you're confronted [04:09.76]With the cold steel of a gun [04:12.72]Midnight comes and I'm moving [04:15.15]On the creep all dressed in black [04:18.03]Wearing a ski mask so he won't know [04:20.71]Who just put him on his back [04:23.33]So I hid behind the bushes [04:25.83]At the people's house next door [04:28.51]3 shots rang out from behind me [04:31.13]And my blood began to pour no [04:35.84]What What now boy [04:40.22]Told you I was gonna get you boy [04:42.03]Thought you's gonna catch me sleeping in your dream [04:44.21] [04:48.63]Do it hurt Let's go [04:51.27]Everything happened in one swift action [04:53.71]Should I just couldn't believe [04:55.51]Cee Lo told them what was happening [04:58.77]I been tricked up and deceived [05:01.47]And it ain't that nobody heard it [05:04.08]And it ain't that nobody cared [05:06.70]It's just that everybody was busy [05:09.46]Looking out for what was theirs [05:12.15]Nonecontribe city said [05:14.77]What they call the M-C-C [05:17.21]Now I don't really know what that means [05:19.97]But it's what the cops called me [05:22.87]They don't care what happens to me [05:25.31]They don't miss me on the beat [05:27.77]All they know is that there's one less nigger [05:31.21] [05:32.59]Hanging on the backstreet where I used to live [05:42.21] [05:43.64]On the backstreet there ain't nothing nothing [05:54.93]The choices you make can make or break you [06:00.18]The choices you make can make or break you [06:05.09]The choices you make can make or break you [06:10.75]The choices you make can make or break you