Checkin' out the Ave.-Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard

[ti:Checkin' Out The Ave.] [ar:Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard] [al:Hip-Hop - The Old Skool Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Checkin' out the Ave. - Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard [00:01.17]Gotta check out the avenue [00:02.62]Got ta check out the avenue [00:04.88] [00:05.58]Got ta check out the avenue [00:07.29]Got ta check out the avenue [00:09.87]Living in the big city not just New York every hometown [00:11.86] [00:12.46]Has a place where things are known for going down [00:14.80]Where you can learn a lot of things that you shouldn't know [00:17.24]It's a place where people tell ya that ya shouldn't go [00:19.42]All the kids that go dere they end up misled [00:21.81]Cause of a hardhead some of 'em turn up dead [00:24.19]Mothers cry as they identify their child y'know [00:26.74]In the morgue wearing a tag on their big toe [00:28.90]I'm saying listen you should go to school and learn [00:30.67] [00:31.22]But fast cash and respect is what you wanna earn [00:33.05] [00:33.58]So you stand for days and days on the ave [00:35.51] [00:36.08]To make enough to get the things that you didn't have [00:38.36]Getting five for the vial some two for seven [00:40.65]But losing out on your childhood's what you're really getting [00:42.98]But if that's the way you get respect I pity you [00:45.06] [00:45.71]Checking out the avenue [00:46.52] [00:48.05]Got ta check out the avenue [00:49.58]Got ta check out the avenue [00:51.93] [00:52.71]Got ta check out the avenue [00:53.88] [00:54.48]Got ta check out the avenue [00:56.94]Living in the big city the big city is where I come from [00:59.75]Not the slums but where poor is many more than none [01:01.97]A young man grows up and then grows to rump [01:04.25]With the girls wild now got a child and he's stuck [01:06.59]Dirt poor hits the block he's selling the rock [01:08.85]Gets nabbed by the cops hits the cell block [01:11.15]Listening to lou rawls while looking at the blue walls [01:13.40]Of a jail cell cause he tried life and he failed [01:16.00]So now the hardest job is keeping a smile [01:17.78] [01:18.36]Stay in line for survival in the penile [01:20.08] [01:20.73]This is your worst nightmare how cheery it isn't [01:23.06]None of your family or friends don't even come to visit [01:25.47]So you're forced into a line of behavior [01:27.10] [01:27.79]Cause you don't wanna catch scars from a razor [01:29.56] [01:30.08]And it's your fault you couldn't make it I pity you [01:32.21] [01:32.84]Checking out the avenue [01:33.90] [01:35.10]Got ta check out the avenue [01:36.30] [01:36.87]Got ta check out the avenue [01:38.86] [01:39.65]Got ta check out the avenue [01:40.91] [01:41.60]Got ta check out the avenue [01:43.65] [01:44.79]Checking out the avenue [01:45.61] [01:49.53]Checking out the avenue check it out [01:52.92]The city never sleeps I stay awake 247 days a week [01:56.14]Thinking bout all the things that I consider deep [01:58.33]Literally ladies live life lonely singing the blues [02:00.01] [02:00.90]And to make matters worse the eye witness news [02:03.15]From anything to everything that's under the sun [02:05.47]What's next a mother using her son for sex [02:07.82]Bad lives battered wives hiding they black eyes [02:10.21]And then they decide their husband has got to die [02:12.58]She's on trial there goes another broken family [02:14.40] [02:14.97]Unless she gets off on temporary insanity [02:16.73] [02:17.28]Then there's a single mother her man deserted her [02:19.54]Two year old grows up to be a mass murderer [02:21.89]There ain't nobody around that's left to raise 'em straight [02:24.40]There ain't nothing we can do but sit back and wait [02:26.77]A sad life to live some pity me too [02:28.81] [02:29.45]Checking out the avenue [02:30.21] [02:31.75]Got ta check out the avenue [02:32.92] [02:33.45]Got ta check out the avenue [02:35.58] [02:36.35]Got ta check out the avenue [02:38.02]Got ta check out the avenue [02:40.44] [02:41.01]Got ta check out the avenue [02:42.12] [02:42.71]Got ta check out the avenue [02:45.12] [02:45.77]Got ta check out the avenue [02:46.93] [02:47.53]Got ta check out the avenue