Shook Ones, Part I - Original Version

The most violent of the violentest crimes we give life to
 If these Queensbridge kids don't like you
 We bring drama of the worst kind of enemies
 Your first time will be your last Earth memories
 It's only your own fault, I gave you fair warning
 Beware of killer kids who don't care
 Unaware fools will be dealt with in time
 It ain't a mystery how I form the words in rhyme
 In nineteen hundred and ninety square
 All shook niggas is supposed to have fear
 Tryna get a piece of this pie, we don't share
 Prepare for the worst 'cause I been there
 Try to keep a positive mind and walk a straight line don't work
 So niggas is forced to do dirt
 And God made dirt, so this dirt won't hurt
 If I listen to the lessons and the rules I learnt
 On these streets for 19 years and not leaving
 My first priority's to reach 21 breathing
 Forever beef, nobody will ever be even
 So I grab the heat before breezing
 Lost in this foul mind state, I can't keep straight thinkin'
 But I keep my eyes on the Earth without blinking
 It's hard to be a man in this land of the venom
 Any man try to front, he get slugs in him
 Because-
 He ain't a crook son (son)
 He just a shook one (shook one)
 We live the life that of diamonds and guns
 And numerous ways that we choose to earn funds
 Some niggas get shot, locked down and turn nuns
 Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones (shook ones)
 He ain't a crook son
 He just a shook one (shook one)
 For every rhyme I write, it's 25 to life
 To all my peoples in the Bridge know what I'm talking 'bout, right?
 Ain't no time for hesitation, that only leads to incarceration
 You don't know me, there's no relation
 'Cause Queens niggas don't play
 I don't got time for the "he say, she say" I'm bigger than that
 Claiming that you pack a gat, but you scared to get locked
 Once you get upon the Island change your ways and stop
 13 years in the projects of hard times I've lived in
 Wake up in the morning, thank God I'm still living
 Sometimes I wonder, do I deserve to live
 Or I am going to burn in hell for all the shit I did?
 No time to dwell on that 'cause my brain reacts
 Front if you want nigga
 Lay on your back, I don't fake jacks kid
 You know I bring it to you live
 Stay in a child's place, kid you outta line
 Criminal minds thirsty for recognition mission
 I'm strictly sipping E&J like got my mind flippin'
 I'm bugging digging my ways out of holes by hustlin'
 Get that loot kid
 You know my motherfucking function
 'Cause long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegal
 And once I get on, I'ma put on all my peoples
 React quick, spit lyrics like MACs I hit
 Your dome up, when I roll up
 Don't be caught sleeping 'cause I'm creeping
 You just a shook one
 He ain't a crook son
 He just a shook one
 We live the life that of diamonds and guns
 And numerous ways that we choose to earn funds
 Some niggas get shot, locked down and turn nuns
 Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones (shook ones)
 He ain't a crook son
 He just a shook one (shook one)
 We live the life that of diamonds and guns
 And numerous ways that we choose to earn funds
 Some niggas get shot, locked down and turn nuns
 Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones (shook ones)
 He ain't a crook son (crook son)
 He just a shook one (shook one)
 Yeah
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