Lowdown

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh Yeah, we gon' run far outside in time Oh, never do lie, never do lie I never do lie I put this on my soul to see your face light up Get them people out the way Anytime they feel like me, break out them chains Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, mama would have killed me (Christ) Stepdaddy would have killed me (Islam) If they both knew I chose a side That would put my youth up in a ride With bloodthirsty killers inside For my nigga Scoob, riding with the whoopty whop To try to shoot the block then when the Uzi flocks And this nigga named Crazy one day robbed my homie with his babies For a lot of gravy, got saved we Found nobody to put on the news Flame scatter, brain splatter look like Jamba Juice And we all intelligent but this shit is irrelevant When they rob a real one for the hell of it, yeah we gonna shoot 'Cause we coming from the ghetto Where you can die over jealousy or dinero Women they have their hair extended like a sombrero KC we never hesitating to let the metal go They bring us down to they level (Demons) and they taking fifty rounds from a rebel That's the sound of the Devil's (semen) Spreading round making little ones And mamma's on the ground cause they killed her son, grieving Yeah, I chose a side but I flow now That don't matter Nina, it can still be a showdown Anywhere you go now So you better stand yo ground 'Cause they don't wanna see you climbing, they wanna keep you low down Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down They wanna see me falling like the rain drops (yeah) It's not that I won't, that I can't stop Keep my brain locked on the game Put the pad away when the paint stop 'Cause they don't care if you sling rocks all on the same block Even if you're in Adelaide or in Bangkok Bussin', spreading your city name like Chiddy Bang But really they were sleeping and unaware of what it became What will it take? I'm building my way into real estate While you Philly steak children get really baked I'm here to facilitate a setting to celebrate over Dilla J Silver gorilla, mister vanilla face kill the brake The beat drop and you feel the bass, exhilarating Sleep on me, I slip in your pillowcase, yah! They want to mitigate the buzz that we generate And give us as little pay as possible any given day They want us low down, dirty and shitty shame 'Cause if anybody profound go head and give me thanks Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down Yeah, they wanna keep us low down, yeah Oh yeah, yeah Oh yeah, yeah