Rakim - Walk These Streets lyrics
rate me[Tracey Horton - Intro] (Rakim) <br />La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah <br />La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah (Uh...yeah...) <br />(This is for the haters...keep hatin) <br />La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah <br />La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah <br />(It's what we call money music, right here) <br />(Uh, yeah, let's go in) <br /> <br />[Rakim - Verse 1ne] <br />I perform in cities, hoods, and slums, the best seller is drugs <br />And money is the only thing that get love <br />They say don't let it make you, but that's how they rate you <br />And the more you got, the more they hate you (That's okay too!) <br />Just don't get in the way, 'cause at the end of the day <br />My agenda's make sure I get them ends to get paid (uh-huh) <br />So I'm stackin grands 'til the math expand <br />It's the man with the master plan <br />Since the Bambino, cash made my path cross with evil <br />Uno dos cinco on a crowded corner rollin c-lo <br />To chips and the chick in the casino pourin Cliquot <br />'Cause now I make music for the c-notes <br />From New York to Puerto Rico, California to Rio <br />Hit the streets like the kilo but I'm legal <br />It's swga like I walk with heat though with all my people <br />But it's just me and my alter ego <br /> <br />[Chorus: Tracey Horton] <br />I walk these streets, wit my mind on my plan <br />It's alright if you don't understand <br />I walk these streets, think like I got a gun in my hand <br />'cause hatin is the nature of man <br />(Sometimes I wanna, stop the cameras, just pop the hammer <br />Box the innocent bystander and his man up) <br />I walk these streets, think like I got a gun in my hand <br />It's alright if you don't understand <br />Just stay outta my waaaay <br /> <br />[Maino - Verse 2wo] <br />MAINOOOOO~! <br />Yo, one for my comrades, two for my family <br />Three for the day that I run into my enemies <br />We gon' make a movie, the world gon' remember me <br />I survived it all dawg, what the hell you tellin me? <br />I remember days when, I was young and aidin <br />Cuttin class, chasin ass, couldn't pass grades and <br />Chillin on the block then, listenin to Rakim <br />Back of his album filled up with Killer Ben <br />Supreme Magnetic and I wasn't athletic <br />But I ran around with the Tre-8 Magnetic <br />Money on my mind, crack vials in my Levi's <br />Been a dog since I had the cream colored Filas (Hahahah!) <br />Yeah, yeah, we fly, seen it all with these eyes <br />Gunplay and drugs if you put my mind on rewind <br />Fast forward my life, ya boy done MADE IT! <br />If I could do it over, I wouldn't CHANGED IT! <br /> <br />[Chorus] <br /> <br />[Rakim - Verse 3hree] <br />(Ay, good lookin out my dude) <br />Aiyyo Maino, it's the same ol' same ol' <br />Don't matter if you in it for the fame or you lay low <br />Haters gon' hate but, it's okay though (Keep doin what you ddo) <br />The angle is make sure the payroll stay swoll <br />Big faces, cake dough and di-nay-ros <br />Rubels, yen yang, euros and pesos <br />Seven digit figures, tryna make more zay-ros <br />Spray holes in whoever in the way so (Stay outta my waaaay) <br />While I count the next bundle (that's right) <br />"All means necessary," Malcolm X hustle <br />A threat yet humble, about to flex muscle <br />Get a big amount then I'm in and out the next jungle <br />'Cause every other day, I'm in another state <br />It's like I cross the thin line between love and hate <br />But I gotta eat, gotta get another plate <br />So I'm on my cake walk for the cake <br /> <br />[Chorus] <br /> <br />Just stay outta my waaaay.. <br />(It's what they do..) <br />Just stay outta my waaaay..<br /><br />
