You Gotta Be...-AHMAD LEWIS

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.30]Rakim [00:11.46]Everybody in the ghetto tell me [00:13.17]Is it a lie that I must be a roughneck [00:15.03]And wear a frown just to be down [00:16.80]I kinda don't agree with being [00:18.39]Tough [00:18.69]But you gotta be [00:19.80]Rough [00:20.01]It's either you claiming your hood or you're not a gee [00:22.44]Forget about respect I refuse to be the next guy [00:25.20]Fitted for a casket either with it or get blasted [00:27.90]I choose to gang bang they give me a chrome plated trigger [00:30.57]Say If you got any heart go rob that Mini Mart n***a [00:33.48]Now look what I done did d**n I had to be the big man [00:36.42]They're looking at me shifty better shut up 'fore I get slammed [00:39.15]Man I'm not a thief good grief and I don't wanna act hard [00:42.27]But then they said if I didn't do it they was gonna gat far [00:45.09]As I could see [00:45.75]I was gonna be [00:46.80]The next new member of the crew cause it's 8 of them and 1 of me [00:50.25]I don't wanna do it but I will [00:52.20]Cause I still want folks to think that I'm hard and tough [00:55.02]Cause you gotta be [00:57.42]Rough [01:03.27]Cause you gotta be [01:04.62]Tough [01:08.85]Cause you gotta be [01:12.69]Rough [01:13.44]I used to be a stick up kid [01:17.73]Well it's the niggeroe again right back in where I left off [01:20.91]Still trying to make a decision I might go to prison if I don't step off [01:23.82]But if I don't rob this store then I'm not sure [01:26.49]If I'm gonna be considered as a gee [01:28.44]And you gotta be [01:29.52]Rough [01:29.73]Cuffs are temporary homies are for life [01:31.92]So I grab the deuce deuce and go inside [01:34.02]I decide to prove in the Mini Mart Don't nobody move [01:37.44]Start filling up the paper sack with loot or I might shoot [01:40.47]But things didn't go as planned cause this man had his own gun [01:43.26]We're standing toe to toe eye to eye so I figured why not [01:46.62]Pull the trigger Put this n***a on the ground [01:48.69]It'll show that I had poise then my boy'll know I'm down [01:51.39]But I didn't do it quick enough or he thought of it first [01:54.21]Cause he blasted to the chest and now I'm resting yelling Nurse [01:57.06]And holding on to life or at least trying to hold on [02:00.21]In a jail ward wearing cuffs [02:01.92]Cause I had to be [02:02.97]Rough [02:03.30]Cause you gotta be [02:04.38]Tough [02:04.68]Cause you gotta be [02:08.46]Rough [02:09.21]I used to be a stick up kid [02:14.43]And everybody everybody gotta be rough y'all [02:20.70]I used to be a stick up kid [02:27.18]And everybody everybody gotta be tough y'all [02:33.84]I used to be a stick up kid [02:36.48]Well that's the end of my tale but before we know [02:39.36]Fools'll just forget what I said and the story go [02:41.91]On and on until you're up to no good [02:44.25]And back throwing up your hood [02:45.66]And still doing what you shouldn't [02:47.52]Niggeroes come together cause divided we fall [02:49.80]So stall that gang s**t stand up [02:51.63]Quit standing in handcuffs [02:53.13]Really hard's when you got loot [02:54.69]And you ain't gotta shoot [02:55.83]D**n man enough is enough [03:04.68]So why you gotta be [03:15.36]Rough [03:22.68]Cause you gotta be [03:33.48]Tough [03:40.29]Cause you gotta be [03:55.83]Rough [04:00.72]I used to be a stick up kid