1999 - Street

Lyrics

"Still getting mine, in the 1 9 9 9"
 Yo, just relax, take it easy slow down
 I had this, I had this friend of mine
 Who just, you know, he was moving too fast, you known I'm saying?
 I told him to slow down, he said the sun don't chill
 I said, I said still, I said still, you gotta
 Just appreciate life, sit back, don't let it fly right past you
 No matter what go on I'm still gettin mine
 No matter the year, no matter the place, no matter the time
 Check it
 It's like I'm fighting for freedom, writing for freedom
 These record company niggas I don't like when I see 'em
 My ancestors, when I'm writing I see 'em and talk with 'em
 Hoping in the promise land I can walk with 'em
 Shitted on so many rappers it's like I'm in the stall with 'em
 Molest concepts, stalk rhythms, paid dues, bought wisdom
 As legends fall my godmother answer heaven's call
 Preachers' daughters get fucked in the reverand's hall
 MCs reckless eyeball, why y'all wanna go and do that?
 Must've thought I was solo, the name just ain't the U-Ac
 No mo', still together
 Like in the ghetto photo with one nigga in the chair
 Holding liquor in despair, gang signs in the air
 I shine in spaces where time is just a glare
 Hold the mic like a memory
 Niggas say I'm nice with metaphors but these are similes
 Street ministry, my poetry's a penitentiary, track is visitation
 Sentences is life, I'm like chief up in this demonstration
 Still...
 You squirm with discomfort, wiggle and cough
 Six days of madness and you might throw me off
 On this great ball of stress that they call the earth
 I'mma show y'all in rhyme just how much shit I been through
 And all the places I went to, always played the low
 It's like a competition, this mission here I'm telling you
 Slip up and rhyme-ass niggas here is felling you
 Crash courses, slow down you can't learn that quick
 Cause I'm the dead eye, with the red eye, from Chi to L-I
 I thought y'all knew, every year I grew, I'm still growing
 And in a year or two I hope my girl'll be showing
 A male seed, praise God I name him Moses
 I lead people I want him to, that's why I chose this
 Now is the glass half-full or half-empty
 Common, why they tempt me
 The king of the simply, bore in mic
 I always stay on top cause I give niggas what they like
 I know y'all hate that why I feel I owe y'all everyday
 If y'all hear it a thousand times, it's gon' be the same way
 The 'Dat-Father, go farther, why bother
 Now I'm a peaceful man, I don't want no stress
 You know I'm still...
 Yo yo, some get Range Rovers, some religion change-over
 Angel on my main shoulder telling me remain sober
 Token nigga, game's over ain't no payola in freestyle
 In battles, I'm warring like a G-Child
 Searching for the child in me, this style in me
 This release is like the piece that's now in me
 They tried to 'sassinate me god, like Martin on the balcony
 Lyrically I put a hit on 'em, cause I'm the style "Nitti"
 Catch a flick at the Liquid Kitty
 Trying to get a chick to kick it with me till the tilt
 Told her my chamber's like Wilt
 Built with her for a sec, let her know I had respect
 Less than a hour she was giving me neck, yo I'm still getting mine

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Song Details

Duration
04:15
Key
7
Tempo
86 BPM

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