They Forced My Hand (Explicit)-Cormega/Tragedy Khadafi

[ti:They Forced My Hand] [ar:Cormega] [al:The Realness] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.41]Yo' son it's real' you know what I'm saying [00:07.03]A man is often condemned or exalted by his words' you know [00:10.52] [00:12.90]That's why we feelin' my niggas going through the struggle [00:16.27]QB-Brooklawn [00:16.46]Y'all niggas hold on if you can't hold on' hang on' you know [00:21.95]Yo' I seen it all' coke rise and kingdoms fall [00:24.95]Profits in sneaker boxes' riches hidden between the walls [00:28.37]The hood agony [00:29.74]I'm one of the few who ever understood Tragedy [00:32.61]Batteries not included in my music [00:34.74]Or holding up my spinal cord [00:36.55]Niggas be lyin' on wax [00:38.17]Committing vinyl fraud [00:39.17]Denyin' the fact [00:40.11]They never slung or fired a gat [00:42.23]Mega's tongue is ghetto' dun [00:43.85]Hello [00:44.35]Where I'm from is the crime and graffiti [00:46.59]And NYPD [00:47.49]Broken glass' 44's' open caskets [00:49.68]Shorty ballers pop sh*t when they' rock hits the basket [00:53.11]The only life we know [00:54.54]I flow so precisely' though [00:56.23]My chain got the icy glow [00:58.23]B-Mer Jeep shine with Lorenzos shine brightly' yo [01:00.79]Laugh now' cry later' one day I might be broke [01:03.85]And tellin' niggas I need coke [01:05.59]Sh*t is real [01:06.71]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [01:08.96]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [01:11.83]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [01:14.46]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [01:17.26]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [01:20.01]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [01:23.13]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [01:25.81]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [01:27.99]Yo' visualize Mahdi as a shorty Fidel Castro [01:31.05]Snotty nose' nappy afro [01:32.79]Never realized in due time what I would have' though' yo [01:36.42]Before I spit at a ho I used to bag up blow [01:39.35]Little bastard - rockin' Pumas under two-tones [01:42.03]As we roam from the streets to the group home' yo [01:44.72]Watchin' mob flicks' clappin' at imaginary targets [01:47.46]Adolescents up in Spofford' facing hardship [01:50.95]Newborns grew up on Anita Baker songs [01:53.21]In the 'hood' wonderin' why the police hate us all [01:55.95]Up late nights waiting for the next day to fall [01:58.63]We're up late nights waiting for the next day to fall [02:01.63]My stomach hurtin'' still searchin' for a way out [02:04.19]On an Island where P C was a gay house [02:06.99]Made my first board' stabbin' niggas on the way out [02:09.74]I knew cats who got bagged they' first day out [02:12.48]Yo [02:13.11]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [02:15.10]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [02:17.97]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [02:20.47]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [02:23.41]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [02:26.08]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [02:28.96]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [02:31.52]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [02:34.45]Yo' Trag' we been down for years(word) [02:36.13]From rappin' in the 'hood [02:37.82]To promising careers [02:39.07]It's all good [02:39.94]The rap game is new to me [02:41.63]The crack game - true to me(my life) [02:43.37]Accept the consequences [02:43.94]And the blood money cruelty [02:45.49]Yo' remember you and me Back in the days [02:48.11]You had a sheepskin' I had a goose and Pumas in gray [02:50.87](You remember that sh*t ) [02:51.92]We even did the same dorm in C-74 [02:53.60]More than boys we were f**kin' outlaws [02:55.17] [02:56.60]If I could break you out the courtroom' and clap through reporters [02:59.10]Kidnap the jurors - and whack all their daughters [03:01.97]The Montanas' Al Po's and Rich Porters [03:04.65]Mandela time - get smacked with two quarters [03:07.77]A life speed - f**kin' with cracks and w**d [03:10.20]Yo' I sniffed so much coke' I froze with nosebleeds [03:13.07]Jumpin' over snow cliffs without the skis(sh*t is crazy' yo) [03:16.63]Then I saw sh*t was real' and I switched my steez [03:18.94]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [03:21.31]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [03:24.18]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [03:26.67]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [03:28.98]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [03:31.99]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [03:35.16]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [03:37.66]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [03:41.34]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [03:43.27]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay [03:46.14]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [03:48.70] [03:49.67]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand [03:50.98]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away [03:54.23]But niggas talk it and don't live it then they forced to pay [03:57.10]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land [03:59.72]Forgive me Father - they forced my hand