Hold Down The Block-Nas

[00:00.00] 作词 : Batson, Jones [00:01.00] 作曲 : N. JONES/M. BATSON [00:10.38]I gotta lay down the block, [00:11.85] [00:13.04]when the block is hot [00:14.30] [00:15.38]I gotta use my imagination, [00:17.36] [00:17.97]to change the situation [00:19.48] [00:20.67]I gotta lay down the block, [00:22.51] [00:23.33]when the block is hot [00:24.55] [00:25.82]I gotta use my imagination, [00:27.71] [00:28.39]to change the situation [00:30.71]Yea, Feds feast on street dons, [00:32.00]look at their teeth showin' [00:34.00]Salivatin' at the mouth, [00:35.49]South to East Orange [00:36.70]Keep pourin' that liquor, [00:38.01]but nigga don't sleep on it [00:39.16]You'll be givin' up your Jesus piece [00:40.69]to your peeps to pawn it [00:41.85]For legal fees in the penal dorm [00:43.62]Screamin' on the horn with 'bout [00:45.31]thirty years on your conscience [00:46.38]I'm watchin' brothers disappear, [00:47.98] [00:48.51]it's appallin' [00:49.38]Some dudes had just only a year of ballin' [00:51.85]Counter-intelligence [00:52.15] [00:53.02]found a strange evidence [00:54.10](When the block is hot) [00:55.05]Still we behind the wheel with heat on us, [00:56.92]hangin' with predicates [00:58.10]Position we placed in caves in, [00:59.38]so they got us caged in [01:00.64]Ways spinnin' like Mike Bivens [01:02.12]from New Edition aging [01:03.22]I got families I'm feeding ' [01:05.15]cause my mans is bleeding [01:06.53]Every five seconds look in all directions [01:08.48]I come through prepared; [01:10.15]I give 'em a call [01:11.08]I'm close, bring them guns downstairs [01:12.75]I gotta lay down the block, [01:14.18] [01:14.85]when the block is hot [01:16.20] [01:17.45]I gotta use my imagination, [01:19.99]to change the situation [01:22.17] [01:22.88]I gotta lay down the block, [01:24.77] [01:25.46]when the block is hot (hold it down) [01:28.43]I gotta use my imagination, [01:29.99] [01:30.71]to change the situation [01:32.87]Uh, uh, it's beef week, [01:34.03]Monday, murder [01:35.13]Two niggas dead, Tuesday [01:36.69]Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day [01:38.38]Friday, somebody-gotta-die-day [01:40.28]Saturday, put the gat away [01:42.41]Chillin' wit your chick and a bag of haze [01:44.86]Wonderin' how it's all gon' end [01:46.65]and what type of way [01:47.59]'Cause Sunday back to gunplay [01:49.11]Mo' shit start over nothin' [01:50.61] [01:51.21]And get finished quick 'cause [01:52.31]the art of repercussion [01:53.54] [01:54.20]Yeah, I seen it, a G' going out indecent [01:56.97]Takin' a plea agreement, [01:58.15]thinkin' he secret [01:59.34]Escape the crime scene, [02:00.53]now you live straight like 9:15 [02:02.85]Then one-time intervene [02:04.57]My man ain't like me sayin' [02:05.65]I don't care if I die [02:06.90]But the SIG Sauer on me now [02:08.56]I'm scared to die [02:09.53]You thinkin' the one [02:10.55]I send to clap you be a shorty [02:11.98]But he old school, holdin' a .38, [02:13.56]he in his forties [02:14.71]I gotta lay down the block, [02:16.48] [02:17.44]when the block is hot [02:18.51] [02:19.95]I gotta use my imagination, [02:21.68] [02:22.85]to change the situation [02:24.51] [02:25.20]I gotta lay down the block, [02:26.88] [02:27.40]when the block is hot [02:28.91] [02:29.98]I gotta use my imagination, [02:32.17] [02:32.86]to change the situation [02:34.24] [02:35.06](I gotta...) Anytime brothers [02:36.24]can't get jobs, then they rob [02:38.40]A man rather die than [02:39.38]live on his knees and starve [02:41.14]Cops steady askin' your man what happened [02:43.44]First he tell then he stop, [02:44.56]like he not really rattin' [02:46.15]Guess he not really [02:46.88]in that casket from a sawed-off [02:48.42] [02:49.04]Listen, [02:49.29]peep game from the brain of an all-star [02:51.68]The rain hurt niggas bones who been shot [02:53.92]Metal pins in their leg, [02:55.39]they walk with a limp-hop [02:56.96]The streets lie, [02:57.55]so you better be cautious [02:59.15]Your man'll fry you plus, [03:00.55]everybody talkin' [03:01.49] [03:02.16]A vet, a General, [03:03.02]don't step where I walked in [03:04.49]Make your own path, [03:05.52]be a legend in your skin [03:07.03]Make your own cash, [03:07.86]don't stress what I'm forcin' [03:09.38]Don't expect more [03:09.93]when you put in less work than all them [03:12.02] [03:12.57]Queensbridge projects has taught him, [03:14.71]and that's for life [03:16.02]You heard me right, I got the block [03:17.85] [03:18.66]When the block is hot [03:20.04] [03:28.99](When the block is hot) [03:29.96] [03:32.93]I gotta use my imagination, [03:34.47] [03:35.24]to change the situation [03:37.06] [03:37.87]I gotta hold down the block, [03:39.59] [03:40.46]when the block is hot [03:41.64] [03:42.99]I gotta use my imagination, [03:44.81] [03:45.66]to change the situation [03:47.38] [03:48.24]I gotta hold down the block, [03:49.86] [03:50.93]when the block is hot [03:52.13] [03:53.52]I gotta use my imagination,