Dirty Game-Cormega

[00:00.02]Yeah [00:04.53]Know what I'm sayin' Premo' [00:08.10]Tell these ****** about my life know what I mean [00:13.22]It's been a crazy' crazy journey for me' know what I mean [00:18.32] [00:21.12]I spend my days in a steel cage [00:22.99]Where brothers feel rage [00:24.10]And get real with razor blades [00:25.96]In I'll ways so when my cell close [00:28.05]My brain cells expose [00:29.36]And my pen excels to a part of hell froze [00:32.26]Inside of me was tellin' me to stay out [00:35.02]Reality was tellin' me that if I find a way out [00:37.12]I had to stay out [00:38.19]Plans I had to lay out [00:39.96]In order to elevate from my identity [00:42.04]Mentally accelerate [00:43.44]I seen a lot of men break down [00:46.00]Being an inmate [00:46.75]Now I realize I couldn't make the same mistakes [00:48.88]It was real being concealed in steel gates [00:51.53]Where brothers who feel hate against a another race [00:54.60]Which only indicates a snake mentality [00:56.72]These are my days of reality [00:59.49] [01:00.99]The streets is a dirty game [01:02.12]My heart's still home in the streets [01:05.67]It's a damn shame [01:06.64]The streets is a dirty game [01:08.11]But ****** stay strapped in the hood [01:10.22]It's a damn shame [01:12.23]The streets is a dirty game [01:13.34]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [01:16.76]It's a damn shame [01:17.54]The streets is a dirty game [01:18.89]But ****** stay strapped in the hood [01:21.60]It's a damn shame [01:22.90]The streets is a dirty game [01:24.50]My heart's still home in the streets [01:26.64] [01:27.03]Often I think of my people the board denied they freedom' a mirage [01:30.44]Disappearing before our eyes [01:32.24]We were born to strife [01:34.04]Now living in courts decide [01:34.80]Missing their children we can feel it when our mommas cry [01:37.72]We was hustlin' but would the jury find me guilty? [01:39.91]They seen us strugglin' [01:41.56]Doing what we have to do to ease the sufferin' [01:43.56]We know it's wrong but so was havin' us freezin' [01:45.99]Left the stove on wearing our sneakers until the soles are gone [01:48.80]We constantly holdin' on' being broke [01:51.86]And hopin our phone is our only escape [01:54.84]And when our favorite TV shows is on shots ringin' echo in the ear before the cops came kids was everywhere [02:00.88]And women cryin ****** going to jail [02:02.62]A mothers eyes fill with tears as she nears [02:05.22]Realizing he's surviving she exhales like Angela Bassett [02:07.76]I'm a poet amongst slums' crimes' and crack addicts [02:10.45] [02:11.27]The streets is a dirty game [02:13.50]My heart's still home in the streets [02:16.06]It's a damn shame [02:17.57]The streets is a dirty game [02:19.55]But ****** stay strapped in the hood [02:32.27] [02:32.67]I live a lonely existence [02:33.70]Lately I've become a mathematician [02:35.23]As I divide my friends with phony ****** I confide in God [02:37.93]As for sins may he forgive 'em [02:40.85]If you have dreams they can be achieved never give up [02:43.46]Look at me once a convicted felon [02:43.73]Once addicted to sellin' [02:45.86]The substance which corrupted many men in my era [02:48.59]I stood in awe at the **** fiends [02:50.86]Drove by those caught in the coke game [02:52.15]Some proper some locked up some sold claim [02:54.41]The main team wanted the shine [02:56.12]Streets so alive I felt the air breathe [02:57.71]Not only did I misplace time [02:59.39]I could remember as an inmate [03:01.04]At midstate I stayed in the law library [03:03.52]Some chose to lift weight' fine [03:04.90]As if they content with they time [03:07.54]They strip us at the visit [03:08.38]Limit our education [03:09.55]Ridicule us ****** [03:10.76]Modern enslavement [03:11.59]Even though I'm out of the cages [03:12.96]I'm the voice of the soldier in the yard with the banger [03:21.96][02:20.26]It's a damn shame [03:22.92][02:20.64]The streets is a dirty game [03:24.24][02:21.30]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin' [03:27.30][02:22.13]It's a damn shame [03:28.35][02:24.53]The streets is a dirty game [03:29.72][02:26.39]But ****** stay strapped in the hood [03:32.66][02:27.31]It's a damn shame [03:33.77][02:28.45]The streets is a dirty game [03:35.20][02:30.10]My heart's still home in the streets [03:40.64][03:16.11]