Ill Street Blues-Kool G Rap & DJ Polo

[00:02.14]Aw yeah, word up, word to mother. [00:05.32]Here comes G. Rap with another one y'all [00:07.90]We going to swing this like this... [00:10.80]I'm right in front of my front steps thinking of a plan [00:13.29]Looking like Raggedy Ann, no dough in hand, kicking a can [00:16.17]Thinking of a plot to pull some bank in [00:18.20]Because I'm dead and stinking [00:19.43]Soles on my shoes winking, t-shirt is shrinking [00:21.47]Soon I see some thighs and my eyes open wide quick [00:24.32]Who's that with you, chick? Bill Blass my sidekick [00:27.05]What's up, black? Give his hand a smack [00:29.52]Then up pulls a Cadillac, yo baby we'll be back [00:32.30]Jumped right on inside, not too many people saw us [00:34.89]Thinking about who gotta get robbed because the mob got a job for us [00:38.14]The drove us down to this other section [00:40.32]Of town where the clowns there be paying for protection [00:43.07]They want us to send a message to Jimmy the bartender [00:45.78]Lend a friend the money, next you're ripping off his car fenders [00:49.00]He's coming up short cause he snorts [00:51.12]Coke, ****, nope, and hope he don't get caught [00:53.81]He owes some Benjamin Franklins, every last bit of em [00:56.40]But Jimmy's pockets are empty, so now we gotta get rid of him [00:59.20]But Jimmy's wife is with him and they don't want to involve her [01:01.81]Hopped out the back seat they gave me a revolver [01:04.56]Blass, you distract him while I go and whack him [01:07.23]Entered through the back side of the bar and then attacked him [01:09.86]He's screaming for his life, reaching for his wife [01:12.45]Shot him in the back of the head and shanked him with a knife [01:15.30]And that goes for anybody who's gotta pay they dues [01:18.01]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:20.61]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:23.40]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:26.17]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:28.70]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:31.32]Suckers I clobber, because my town is full of cops and robbers [01:34.24]You're not promised tomorrow in this Little Shop of Horrors [01:36.98]So I got to get with the business and hit quick [01:39.62]Moneygrip's pocket's looking thick so I stick slick [01:42.40]Hold it right there, hands in the air, I know you got the loot [01:45.07]Or better yet, face down on the ground, empty your pockets troop [01:47.97]Hit the deck, I got the Tec right on your neck [01:50.25]And I expect to make a buck to heck with a traveler's check [01:53.32]But if a vic' tries to choke me [01:55.37]I'll have to smoke him like I'm Smokey the Bear, so okie dokie [01:58.39]Goodbye, or bon voyage, have a good journey [02:01.02]Don't even try begging for your life, that don't concern me [02:03.78]So to the next weasel that freezes [02:05.75]Your begging and your pleases only getting ya closer to meeting Jesus [02:09.13]Yeah, I shake a schmuck just to make a buck [02:11.31]Then I break a duck and if the duck gotta get bucked then I don't give a **** [02:14.56]Hyper as a sniper piping *****s like a plumber [02:17.15]Cold vicking and sticking up the ones that run the numbers [02:19.89]Or even a bigger score, the lady in the liquor store [02:22.77]Go inside then kick in the door, pull her then I'm stickin her for [02:25.50]Money or your life, honey hurry and choose [02:27.62]But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues [02:30.59]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:33.20]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:35.77]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:38.40]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:41.45]Extra extra read all about it in the papers [02:44.03]The boss tried to rape us, so we tossed him off the skyscraper [02:46.86]Because he pulled some other people to try and hit us [02:49.36]Get us, but none of them did us, he must be trying to kid us [02:52.08]But that's dead, I'll thank God in the red, 'cross the bread borders [02:55.09]So nobody can short us, he fled down to headquarters [02:57.81]Ready to put some work in, we're not a lazy crew, we'll do a job or two [03:00.40]But yo, the man can't even stick me with some Krazy Glue [03:03.14]Ready to tore him even more because she saw him [03:05.66]We took out all the lookouts in the front and kicked his door in [03:08.54]What's up snake, why'd you violate? [03:10.47]They called him a chazer (What's that?) [03:11.95]Yo, that's a pig that don't fly straight [03:13.86]Getting ready to jab him, I grabbed him by the necktie [03:16.47]Homie tried to get fly, and swing I gave him a decked eye [03:19.12]You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go [03:21.79]We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window [03:24.59]Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown [03:27.39]Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down [03:30.00]I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes [03:32.36]But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues [03:35.25]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [03:37.71]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [03:40.51]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues [03:43.12]You lose, cause I got the Ill Street Blues