The Corner, The Streets (Explicit)-Grand Puba/Lord Jamar

[ti:The Corner, The Streets (Feat. Grand Puba)] [ar:Lord Jamar] [al:The 5% Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.49]"In the street on the on the corner in the street" [00:08.41]"In the street on the corner" [00:12.16]They got crack they got guns "on there corner" [00:17.67]I seen niggaz die young "in the street" [00:22.45]They got females for sale "on the corner" [00:28.07]Mad niggaz in jail for running wild "in the street" [00:32.98]Yo I attended UCLA now how that grab you [00:36.61]The University of the Corner of Lincoln Avenue [00:39.43]Where no sleep is lost [00:40.83]When they think of stabbing you [00:42.23]Leave you in the playground laying face down [00:44.52]And I'm not Deandre this is not HBO [00:48.11]This is real life and it's real trife [00:50.91]Sometimes it's too much to fathom [00:53.04]Coroner come through [00:54.02]They just bag 'em and tag 'em [00:55.92]Just the other I was copping w**d "on the corner" [01:00.41]Man I seen a ni**a get shot [01:02.51]He was laying out "in the street" [01:05.12]The blood started to leak from his head [01:07.41]He was dead I was just standing feet away [01:09.99]You never know if today's gon' be the day [01:12.79]That you get killed blood get spilt [01:15.43]All over the pavement cause [01:18.33]They got crack they got guns "on there corner" [01:23.88]I seen niggaz die young "in the street" [01:28.67]They got females for sale "on the corner" [01:34.25]Mad niggaz in jail for running wild "in the street" [01:39.77]Yo she used to be a dime piece back in '82 [01:42.89]She was the sh*t then she got strung out on the sh*t [01:46.00]Now her beauties drained from the coc*ine [01:48.48]Her once delicate speech is now profane [01:51.37]Reminents of her formal self catch a trick's eye [01:54.10]She suck anonymous dick and then gets high [01:56.84]She on the block to the whee hours [01:59.16]And I wouldn't f**k with it [02:00.72]Even if she took three showers [02:02.38]With eight AIDS tests she's a straight mess [02:05.12]She look older than she is cause she stay stressed [02:08.07]The whole hood know her we anbuvilent [02:10.59]Her mixed up girl we lost at innocence [02:13.33]What's really sad is that she's not the only one [02:16.12]Her life is bad but she's not the only one [02:18.94]There's plenty more the streets got plenty whores [02:21.60]Pimp prophet bank corners on twenty four [02:24.48]They got crack they got guns "on there corner" [02:30.00]I seen niggaz die young "in the street" [02:34.92]They got females for sale "on the corner" [02:40.43]Mad niggaz in jail for running wild "in the street" [02:46.20]Now a new born baby from the hospital [02:49.12]Headed to the hood to face them obstacles [02:51.73]Of the gangstas killings fiends and ** dealings [02:54.59]Those who get caught [02:55.91]Get pinched and start squealing [02:57.34]The have nots stuck in the hood that stays hot [03:00.11]Like crabs in the barrel try'nna make it to the top [03:02.72]With petty a** beef gat handles with the glock [03:05.44]Where innocent kids wind up getting shot [03:08.19]Where murder is a trend selling *** is a hobby [03:11.05]And moms and grandmoms [03:12.39]Scared to walk through the lobby [03:13.92]Where young men don't get a chance to be men [03:16.49]Lie step or shot down all they talking was sin [03:19.25]Where young girls walk around the hood with no clothes [03:22.00]Thinking it's aight from watching them videos [03:24.84]This sh*t is by design program your mind [03:27.46]With a savage way of thinking [03:28.89]Leaving you dumb deaf & blind [03:30.53]They got crack they got guns "on there corner" [03:36.36]I seen niggaz die young "in the street" [03:41.08]They got females for sale "on the corner" [03:46.71]Mad niggaz in jail for running wild "in the street"