Trouble Man-Inspectah Deck

[00:00.00](Inspectah Deck) [00:19.59]Check out the avenue, New York, New York the Rotten Apple [00:22.68]We grapple in the streets to stack loot and slip the shackles [00:25.41]I'm currently, servin twenty-nine to life [00:27.72]Duckin the searchlight, no sleep for like the third night [00:30.75]The big life is trife, got the young kids hyped [00:33.27]Cops shoot on sight, heat pipe be blowin through the night [00:36.12]The land where you ain't fam, there's no pity [00:38.58]Similar to Chocolate City, ten times gritty [00:41.31]Hittin hard, liquor's God, niggaz plottin on the come off [00:44.31]and come off, quicker than the clothes on the stripper [00:46.98]and slide like she doin up and down the railing [00:49.35]***** tailing in the Range with Golden Arms smooth sailin [00:52.32]The clock's tickin, somebody's on the block snitchin [00:55.05]The plot thickens, phones are tapped, cops listen [00:57.69]Too hot for prison, plus too cold to hold my girl [01:00.30]cause I married this life and she's my whole world [01:02.64]Chorus: {"{"}unknown singer} [01:03.27]It's just a sign of the times [01:06.60]Calmly listen - to these lines.. [01:13.02]I'm goin out of my mind [01:17.82]Livin - the street life.. [01:23.55](Inspectah Deck) [01:24.60]Aiyyo, aiyyo [01:24.78]Make me wanna holla way they do my life [01:27.15]My life, is like a carousel one endless night [01:29.91]Where most die for pies, some holdin their chrome [01:32.49]A large percent die for causes not even their own [01:35.28]When the Inspectah Deck be long dead and gone [01:38.01]long live the INS clone they workin on [01:40.32]Til then, I hold a section, I stand alone no co-defendant [01:43.50]Showin the weapon, this saga had no story endin [01:46.26]It's ghetto heaven, and at the same time hell - shots propel [01:49.65]The one that missed me got Chanel [01:51.54]In the future ruled by computer, I self tutor [01:54.33]The music is the simulator, facin the user [01:57.03]I do it for those who walk the same road [01:59.43]And no regrets do I hold for the path I chose [02:02.28]No sleep since the intro, patrol the windows [02:04.86]I reminisce, with the chalice and my eyes half closed [02:07.56]If I could do it again, I'd probably do it the same [02:10.20]Thought I was through with the game, I'm goin through it again [02:13.17]The hood life, I'm in it to the limit [02:15.21]Couldn't quit it for a digit, die for it cause I live it [02:34.35]Chorus [02:34.59](Inspectah Deck) [02:39.81]Yo, been around the world but just can't seem to leave [02:42.84]the state of mind that causes tangled web I weave [02:45.39]Made my home in the heart of it [02:47.04]Move like Seagal, "Hard Target" [02:49.08]Most want no part of it, it's logic [02:51.12]Cutthroat party in the Shark Pit [02:53.16]Cold blooded souls carry bulldogs and oxes, knowledge this [02:56.82]Maintain and remain sane [02:58.86]In the cold world where the rules ain't changed [03:01.44]Still Rebel to society, government be eyein me [03:04.44]They probably watchin me right now as I'm speakin [03:07.14]But all I'm guilty of is teachin you the truth [03:09.42]They got proof, so you know I'll be home before the weekend [03:12.57]The hood life, I'm in it to the limit [03:14.70]In it from the scrimmage, livin it, lovin every minute [03:17.91]and every hour, til the powers that be [03:20.28]eventually stress me to the death [03:24.36]"Y'all know the science right?" [03:25.56]"Death with the intellect" [03:27.18]"aight.. aight.." [03:27.81]"Represent, I make it hot " [03:30.18]"13th.. chamber.. specialist.. from the Bricks" [03:33.63]Chorus [03:33.90]{" { "}unknown singer} [03:55.59]Street life.. so trife.. [04:01.08]Street life.. for life.. [04:06.42]Feels like.. feels like.. [04:10.89]my paradiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiise.. [04:17.76]" Yeah y'all.. uh-huh.." (7X to fade)