Dirty Game-Cormega

[ti:Dirty Game] [ar:Cormega] [al:Raw Forever] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dirty Game - Cormega [00:04.91]Know what I'm sayin' Premo' [00:06.11] [00:08.47]Tell these niggas about my life know what I mean [00:10.18] [00:13.72]It's been a crazy' crazy journey for me' know what I mean [00:17.04] [00:21.53]I spend my days in a steel cage [00:23.43]Where brothers feel rage [00:24.57]And get real with razor blades [00:26.44]In I'll ways so when my cell close [00:28.48]My brain cells expose [00:29.81]And my pen excels to a part of hell froze [00:32.94]Inside of me was tellin' me to stay out [00:35.02]Reality was tellin' me that if I find a way out [00:37.69]I had to stay out [00:38.82]Plans I had to lay out [00:40.12]In order to elevate from my identity [00:42.65]Mentally accelerate [00:43.90]I seen a lot of men break down [00:45.51]Being an inmate [00:46.58]Now I realize I couldn't make the same mistakes [00:49.68]It was real being concealed in steel gates [00:52.02]Where brothers who feel hate against a another race [00:54.54] [00:55.08]Which only indicates a snake mentality [00:57.31] [00:58.66]These are my days of reality [01:00.18] [01:00.75]The streets is a dirty game [01:02.51]My heart's still home in the streets [01:04.77] [01:05.93]It's a damn shame [01:07.10]The streets is a dirty game [01:08.56]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [01:11.36]It's a damn shame [01:12.54]The streets is a dirty game [01:13.73]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [01:16.70]It's a damn shame [01:17.74]The streets is a dirty game [01:19.42]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [01:22.33]It's a damn shame [01:23.39]The streets is a dirty game [01:24.87]My heart's still home in the streets [01:26.97]Often I think of my people the board denied they freedom' a mirage [01:30.93]Disappearing before our eyes [01:32.31]We were born to strife [01:33.68]Now living in courts decide [01:35.24]Missing their children we can feel it when our mommas cry [01:37.94]We was hustlin' but would the jury find me guilty [01:40.43]They seen us strugglin' [01:41.64]Doing what we have to do to ease the sufferin' [01:43.88]We know it's wrong but so was havin' us freezin' [01:46.41]Left the stove on wearing our sneakers until the soles are gone [01:49.32] [01:50.07]We constantly holdin' on' being broke [01:52.17] [01:52.82]And hopin' our phone is our only escape [01:54.85]And when our favorite TV shows is on shots ringin' echo [01:58.03]In the ear before the cops came kids was everywhere [02:01.04]And women cryin' niggas going to jail [02:02.75]A mothers eyes fill with tears as she nears [02:04.90]Realizing he's surviving she exhales like Angela Bassett [02:08.27]I'm a poet amongst slums' crimes' and crack addicts [02:11.37]It's a damn shame [02:12.46]The streets is a dirty game [02:13.98]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [02:16.71]It's a damn shame [02:17.92]The streets is a dirty game [02:19.27]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [02:22.07]It's a damn shame [02:23.39]The streets is a dirty game [02:24.93]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [02:27.46]It's a damn shame [02:28.83]The streets is a dirty game [02:30.29]My heart's still home in the streets [02:32.00]I live a lonely existence [02:33.54]Lately I've become a mathematician [02:35.52]As I divide my friends with phony niggas I confide in God [02:38.97]As for sins may he forgive 'em [02:40.47]If you have dreams they can be achieved never give up [02:43.10]Look at me once a convicted felon [02:45.14]Once addicted to sellin' [02:46.48]The substance which corrupted many men in my era [02:49.00]I stood in awe at the d**e fiends [02:50.71]Drove by those caught in the coke game [02:52.60]Some proper some locked up some sold claim [02:54.82]The main team wanted the shine [02:56.41]Streets so alive I felt the air breathe [02:58.14]Not only did I misplace time [02:59.95]I could remember as an inmate [03:01.54]At midstate I stayed in the law library [03:03.90]Some chose to lift weight' fine [03:05.38]As if they content with they time [03:07.40]They strip us at the visit [03:08.73]Limit our education [03:09.79]Ridicule us niggas [03:11.02]Modern enslavement [03:12.01]Even though I'm out of the cages [03:13.64]I'm the voice of the soldier in the yard with the banger [03:16.78]It's a damn shame [03:17.80]The streets is a dirty game [03:19.36]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [03:22.17]It's a damn shame [03:23.27]The streets is a dirty game [03:24.82]My heart's still home in the streets [03:26.93] [03:27.58]It's a damn shame [03:28.85]The streets is a dirty game [03:30.28]But niggas stay strapped in the hood [03:33.06]It's a damn shame [03:34.29]The streets is a dirty game [03:35.77]My heart's still home in the streets