Ill Street Blues (A Capella Version)-Kool G Rap

[ti:Ill Street Blues (A Capella Version)] [ar:Kool G Rap] [al:Ill St. Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ill Street Blues (A Capella Version) - Kool G Rap [00:00.98]I'm right in front of my front steps thinking of a plan [00:03.21]Looking like Raggedy Ann no dough in hand kicking a can [00:05.98]Thinking of a plot to pull some bank in [00:08.11]Because I'm dead and stinking [00:09.30]Soles on my shoes winking t-shirt is shrinking [00:11.42]Soon I see some ties and my eyes open wide quick [00:14.25]Who's that with you chick Bill Blass my sidekick [00:17.00]What's up black give his hand a smack [00:19.50]Up pulls a Cadillac yo baby we'll be back [00:22.36]Jumped right on inside not too many people saw us [00:24.63]Thinking about who gotta get robbed [00:26.03]Because the mob got a job for us [00:28.22]The drove us down to the sober section [00:30.29]Of town where the clowns don't be paying for protection [00:32.99]The want us to send a message to Jimmy the bartender [00:35.63]Lend a friend the money next you're ripping off his car fenders [00:39.15]He's coming up short cause he snorts [00:41.04]Coke dope nope and hope he don't get caught [00:43.96]He owes some Benjamin Franklins every last bit of em [00:46.58]But Jimmy's pockets are empty so now we gotta get rid of him [00:49.35]But Jimmy's wife is with him and they don't want to involve her [00:52.03]Hopped out the back seat they gave me a revolver [00:54.58]Blass you distract him while I go and whack him [00:57.42]Entered through the back side of the bar and then attacked him [01:00.05]He's screaming for his life reaching for his wife [01:02.49]Shot him in the back of the head and shanked him with a knife [01:05.38]And that goes for anybody who's gotta pay they dues [01:08.07]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:10.53] [01:21.25]Suckers I clobber because my town is full of cops and robbers [01:24.18]You're not promised tomorrow in this Little Shop of Horrors [01:27.14]So I got to get with the business of hit quick [01:29.76]Money grip's pocket's looking thick so I stick Slick [01:32.42]Hold it right here hands in the air I know you got the loot [01:35.41]Or better yet face down on the ground [01:36.94]Empty your pockets troop [01:38.10]Hit the deck I got the Tech right on your neck [01:40.64]And I expect to make a buck to heck with a traveller's check [01:43.48]But if a vic' tries to choke me [01:45.39]I'll have to smoke him like I'm Smokey the Bear so okie dokie [01:48.65]Goodbye or bon voyage have a good journey [01:51.10]Don't even try begging for your life that don't concern me [01:54.15]So to the next weasel that freezes [01:55.80]Your begging and your pleases [01:57.09]Only getting your closer to meeting Jesus [01:59.32]Yeah I shake a schmuck just to make a buck [02:01.61]Then I break a duck and if the duck [02:03.18]Gotta get bucked then I don't give a f**k [02:04.84]Hyper as a sniper piping n**gas like a plumber [02:07.23]Cold vicking and sticking up the ones that run the numbers [02:10.41]Or even a bigger score the lady in the liquor store [02:13.08]Go inside and kick in the door pull her then I'm sticking her for [02:15.66]Money or your life honey hurry and choose [02:17.84]You lose because I got the Ill Street Blues [02:20.71] [02:32.13]Extra extra read all about it in the papers [02:34.28]The boss tried to rape us [02:35.54]So we tossed him off the skyscraper [02:37.38]Because he pulled some other people to try and hit us [02:39.39]Get us but none of them did us [02:41.05]He must be trying to kid us [02:42.32]But that's dead I'll thank God in the red [02:44.13]'Cross the bread borders [02:45.26]So nobody can short us he fled down to headquarters [02:47.95]Ready to put some work in [02:49.15]We're not a lazy crew we'll do a job or two [02:51.03]But yo the man can't even stick me with some Crazy Glue [02:53.62]Ready to tore him even more because she saw him [02:55.76]We took out all the lookouts in the front and kicked his door in [02:59.08]What's up snake why'd you violate [03:00.79]Because I'm a hossa [03:02.35]Yo that's a pig that don't fly straight [03:04.04]Getting ready to jab him I grabbed him by the necktie [03:06.82]Homie tried to get fly and swing I gave him a decked eye [03:09.52]You know the evil that men do hell is where the men go [03:12.07]We snatched him by his hands [03:13.17]And feet and threw him out the window [03:14.78]Up up up and away cause I don't play clown [03:17.52]Buck buck buck take that with you on the way down [03:20.18]I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes [03:22.68]But you lose because I got the Ill Street Blues