What We Do-Jay-Z

[ti:What We Do] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:S Carter The Best Of Library Of A Legend] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What We Do - Jay-Z [00:02.06]Man if I get rocked this sh*t for my kid's ni**a [00:05.85]It's that real sh*t [00:08.53]Even though what we do is wrong [00:10.75]We still hustle 'til the sun come up [00:12.51]Crack a 40 when the sun go down [00:14.49]It's a cold winter [00:15.80]Y'all niggaz better bundle up [00:17.62]And I bet it be a hotter summer grab a onion [00:20.00]Yes the roc gets down you hot now listen up [00:22.64]Don't you know cops' whole purpose is to lock us down [00:25.86]And throw away the key [00:27.01]But without this ** sh*t your kids ain't got no way to eat huh [00:31.91]We still try to keep mom smilin' [00:34.09]Cuz when the teeth stop showin' and the stomach start growlin' [00:36.92]Then the heat start flowin' [00:38.44]If you from the hood I know you feel me [00:40.48]If a sneak start leanin' and the heat stop workin' [00:43.10]Then my heat start workin' I'm a rob me a person [00:45.61]Catch a ni**a sleepin' while he out in the open [00:49.42]And I'm a get him flowin' [00:52.06]Make a million off a record bail my niggaz outta prison [00:54.67]We gotta raise our kids while we livin' [00:56.20]F**k a Bentley or a Lexus just my boys in the squander [00:58.60]Ni**a talk reckless then I hit 'em with the smif 'n [01:02.08]But I'm never snitchin' I'm a rider [01:03.84]If my kids hungry snatch the dishes out ya kitchen [01:06.54]I'll be wylin' till they pick me outta line up [01:11.72]We keep the nines tucked chopped dimes up rap about it [01:14.51]Wyle out f**k niggaz up laugh about it [01:17.11]I'm not tryin' to visit the morgue but [01:19.23]Freeway move out 'til I sit with the lord [01:21.41]'Til I get my sh*t together clean up my sins [01:23.88]Freeway got it in like 10 in the mornin' [01:26.36]And I can get it to ya like 10 while you yawnin' mang [01:32.75]Still deliver the order mang [01:34.54]And I ain't talkin' bout chicken and gravy mang [01:37.27]I'm talkin' bout bricks 'o ye yo halves and quarters [01:39.94]4 and a halves of hash you do the math [01:42.53]Swing past us scoop up your daughter [01:44.53]She wanna roll wit' a thug that rap you do the math [01:47.18]He won't blast 'til my stacks in order mang [01:49.89]Mang lemme get 'em free [01:52.33]Hove never slackin' mang zippin' in the black range [01:54.73]Faster than the red ghost gettin' ghost wit' Pac mang [01:57.34]One time know a got a knack to get that change [01:59.76]Leader of the black gang R O C mang [02:02.32]Bang like t mac ski mask air it out [02:05.02]Gotta kill witnesses 'cause frees beard's stickin' out [02:07.50]Y'all don't want no witness sh*t we squeeze hammers mang [02:10.03]Bullets breeze by you like Louisiana mang [02:13.63]But I gotta feed Tianna mang [02:15.24]So I move keys you can call me the piano man [02:17.79]Rain sleet hail snow man [02:20.47]Slang dough e hydro man [02:23.06]No B sige in the third lane [02:25.36]Gramps still prayin' workin on my nerves man [02:28.22]Like son you gotta get your soul clean [02:30.52]Before they blow them horns like Coltrane [02:33.56]But still I cry tears of a hustler [02:35.33]Wipe tears from my mother pull out beers for her brothers [02:38.09]That's above us make beds for the babies [02:40.10]Tuck kids under covers buy cribs for their mothers [02:43.15]Sh*t I'll probably be wylin' with their fathers [02:45.49]Tell MS Robert tell Elijah that I'm ridin' for her father [02:48.16]That's like my brother like same mother different father [02:51.10]Any problems dog know I got 'em [02:54.09]And still we grind from the bottom [02:55.56]Just to make it to the bottom sold crack in the alleyways [02:58.60]Still gave back Marcy a dollar day [03:01.19]Real gangsters make hood holidays [03:03.62]They ain't thank us but we still paid homage mang [03:05.72]Soul food Sunday lookin' like big momma's mang [03:08.74]Tell the gang I never break my promise mang mang unnh