Smokers La La Bye-WC And The Maad Circle

[00:00.26]This afternoon we want to talk about [00:03.39]Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from [00:06.56]Five yers ago when I was in high school [00:08.53]No bills to pay I used to say to myself Life is cool [00:11.86]I had a roof over my head and a parttime job [00:14.64]Slanging at OB's birdstand [00:16.51]Washington High was the school I attended [00:18.85]Til eightyseven graduation came and I wasn't with it [00:21.38]Kicked out the house at the age of eighteen [00:23.71]No money for college mmm how should I handle things [00:26.54]I tried to go the socalled right way [00:28.50]And went to a JC but I wasn't getting paid [00:31.10]I'm working at a chicken stand now with the chicken [00:33.42]With a spring at the top of my hat getting clowned [00:36.05]I gotta pay my rent but my job ain't cutting it [00:38.37]So now I'm drinking gin saying Here's my alternative [00:40.99]To either keep doing what I'm doing don't trip [00:43.39]Or go and buy gats y'all and come up on a grip [00:45.80]So like anybody else I went and bought a gun [00:48.15]Pulling burgs at night and now I'm counting my funds [00:50.58]Three times a day and I drive a coup on danas [00:53.31]Cruising through the alley bumping on Hi to players [00:55.53]Yo you can say what you want but [00:57.27]I was taught on the streets [00:58.41]That if a brother didn't work then he didn't eat [01:01.04]You don't work you can't eat [01:05.83]Peep this something kind if for weakness [01:08.11]Focus on the park and watch how I freak this [01:10.46]Subject for survival got to stay alive [01:13.21]I gotta eat so I do or die [01:15.23]Not a fulltime crook but I was born right [01:17.57]So if I want to eat sometimes I got to jack [01:20.15]So jack I will and go get some presidents [01:22.72]A foot in the ground and the other on an oil slick [01:25.23]Money ain't everything but either is brokeness [01:27.71]Give me a knife cause I can't live off happiness [01:30.12]Once a brother said I can't work for the white kind [01:32.60]Standing on the corner in a soup line [01:34.98]Said he's too black too strong ain't done nothing yet [01:37.39]Waiting on the fifth for his government relief check [01:39.90]Humming and bumming most hate to see him coming [01:42.14]And every first and 15th these strongs on his life [01:44.65]But a hustle is a hustle and a meal is a meal [01:47.00]That's why I'm real and I ain't afraid to steal [01:49.55]Straight from the street backed up by a funky beat [01:52.18]If you don't work OG then you don't eat [01:55.18]You don't work you can't eat [01:59.88]You don't work you can't eat [02:04.77]Ayo I want you all to meet a ni**a from the Lench Mob [02:07.38]He gaffled for his meals (McDonald's is my spot) [02:10.23]Ayo Jay Dee kick some sh*t for the Maad Circle G [02:14.46]If you don't work you don't eat need I say more [02:16.83]Cause I'm a kick my rhymes in abundant while you stay poor [02:19.41]Since I was fourteen I raised myself [02:21.28]I built a roof over my head and then I went for self [02:23.72]I sold cookedup rock made my way through school [02:26.32]I'm not saying you should do it cause it ain't too cool [02:28.71]Kicking playing to start your back [02:31.14]Talking about that b******t prize you slay me right [02:33.68]And you other motherf**kers out here banging for change [02:36.13]Need to wise up and seek personal gain [02:38.54]Or maintain some type of pain [02:40.91]Cause they don't give away hot lunches out here in LA [02:43.35]Yo peace to the Dub and the Maad Circle [02:46.12]For giving me the chance to let the rhyme just flow [02:48.94]So you can [02:48.82]So you can either sell d**e or get your a** a job [02:51.72]Jay Dee (I'd rather roll with the Lench Mob) [02:53.73]You don't work you can't eat [02:58.62]Eiht is stepping from the city down under [03:00.89]And I'm robbing more punk fools blind like Stevie Wonder [03:03.76]Ain't no punching a clock I ain't with it [03:05.67]For a quarter an hour I make the sh*t every minute [03:08.05]And please don't even let me catch a brother slipping [03:10.52]He'll be short shorter than short [03:12.42]With my hands around his troat [03:14.01]Fool come off the chain and bracelet [03:16.20]I know it's wrong but face it [03:18.62]A brother like me won't win the lottery [03:20.67]Ain't no faking when it's time to bring home the bacon [03:23.29]Cause I was taught get what you're gonna get quick [03:25.97]And don't get gaffled in the mix [03:28.16]So I guess I'll keep stacking breaking the law [03:30.71]Checking a fool wrecking and breaking his jaw [03:33.38]Gyeah that's life in the Compton streets [03:35.82]Homeboy you don't work homeboy you don't eat [03:38.09]You don't work you can't eat [03:42.57]This record was put together by Jay Dee Coolio and the W [03:45.34]Eight Chilly Chill and DJ Crazy Toons [03:47.84]Sic brothers out to get paid cause [03:49.97]Nowadays you got to go for yourself or go broke [03:52.72]I'm living day by day [03:53.91]Cause you see the future ain't promised [03:55.70]So save that drama for your mama [03:57.33]And make sure you're out of my path [03:58.77]When I'm on the creep tip [03:59.96]Or have your first name changed to RIP [04:02.37]You don't work you can't eat [04:07.08]You don't work you can't eat [04:12.04]You have to you save to cound took makbab [04:17.00]You don't work you can't eat sell