Dirty Game (Explicit)-Cormega

[ti:Dirty Game (Explicit)] [ar:Cormega] [al:Born And Raised] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dirty Game (Explicit) - Cormega [00:02.87]Yeah [00:03.15] [00:04.81]Know what I'm sayin' Premo' [00:05.90] [00:08.36]Tell these niggas about my life know what I mean [00:10.30] [00:13.60]It's been a crazy crazy journey for me know what I mean [00:16.62] [00:21.37]I spend my days in a steel cage [00:23.26]Where brothers feel rage [00:24.62]And get real with razor blades [00:26.47]In ill ways so when my cell close [00:28.57]My brain cells expose [00:29.84]And my pen excels to a part of hell froze [00:32.87]Inside of me was tellin' me to stay out [00:34.98]Reality was tellin' me that if I find a way out [00:37.62]I had to stay out [00:38.77]Plans I had to lay out [00:40.03]In order to elevate from my identity [00:42.55]Mentally accelerate [00:43.83]I seen a lot of men break down [00:45.51]Being an inmate [00:46.60]Now I realize I couldn't make the same mistakes [00:49.40]It was real being concealed in steel gates [00:51.93]Where brothers who feel hate against a another race [00:54.82]Which only indicates a snake mentality [00:57.07] [00:58.51]These are my days of reality [00:59.94] [01:01.12]The streets is a dirty game [01:02.24] [01:02.90]My heart's still home in the streets [01:04.65] [01:05.83]It's a damn shame [01:06.92]The streets is a dirty game [01:08.31]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [01:11.04]It's a damn shame [01:12.27]The streets is a dirty game [01:13.79]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [01:16.72]It's a damn shame [01:17.84]The streets is a dirty game [01:19.29]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [01:21.97]It's a damn shame [01:23.24]The streets is a dirty game [01:24.64]My heart's still home in the streets [01:26.96]Often I think of my people the board denied [01:29.55]They freedom a mirage [01:30.79]Disappearing before our eyes [01:32.43]We were born to strife [01:33.61]Now living in courts decide [01:35.03]Missing their children we can feel it when our mommas cry [01:37.78]We was hustlin' but would the jury find me guilty [01:40.20]They seen us strugglin' [01:41.35]Doing what we have to do to ease the sufferin' [01:43.86]We know its wrong but so was havin' us freezin' [01:46.20]Left the stove on wearing our sneakers until the soles are gone [01:49.08] [01:49.73]We constantly holdin' on being broke [01:51.95] [01:52.70]And hopin our phone is our only escape [01:54.77]And when our favorite TV shows is on shots [01:57.30]Ringin' echo in the ear before the cops came kids was everywhere [02:00.70]And women crying niggas going to jail [02:02.62]A mothers eyes fill with tears as she nears [02:04.64]Realizing he's surviving she exhales like Angela Bassett [02:08.21]I'm a poet amongst slums crimes and crack addicts [02:11.22]It's a damn shame [02:12.36]The streets is a dirty game [02:13.83]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [02:16.41]It's a damn shame [02:17.75]The streets is a dirty game [02:19.22]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [02:21.94]It's a damn shame [02:23.27]The streets is a dirty game [02:24.72]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [02:27.41]It's a damn shame [02:28.67]The streets is a dirty game [02:30.20]My heart's still home in the streets [02:31.95]I live a lonely existence [02:33.46]Lately I've become a mathematician [02:35.16]As I divide my friends with phony niggas I confide in God [02:38.59]As for sins may he forgive 'em [02:40.47]If you have dreams they can be achieved never give up [02:43.05]Look at me once a convicted felon [02:45.10]Once addicted to sellin' [02:46.29]The substance which corrupted many men in my era [02:48.60]I stood in awe at the d**e fiends [02:50.58]Drove by those caught in the coke game [02:52.54]Some proper some locked up some sold claim [02:54.55]The main team wanted the shine [02:56.38]Streets so alive I felt the air breathe [02:58.26]Not only did I misplace time [02:59.78]I could remember as an inmate [03:01.33]At midstate I stayed in the law library [03:03.93]Some chose to lift weight fine [03:05.46]As if they content with they time [03:07.22]They strip us at the visit [03:08.59]Limit our education [03:09.71]Ridicule us niggas [03:10.86]Modern enslavement [03:11.82]Even though I'm out of the cages [03:13.75]I'm the voice of the soldier in the yard with the banger [03:16.21] [03:16.73]It's a damn shame [03:17.82]The streets is a dirty game [03:19.24]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [03:20.97] [03:21.76]It's a damn shame [03:23.26]The streets is a dirty game [03:24.71]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [03:27.36]It's a damn shame [03:28.70]The streets is a dirty game [03:30.14]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [03:32.82]It's a damn shame [03:34.09]The streets is a dirty game [03:35.62]My heart's still home in the streets