[00:22.18]Low profile, rap style, slick as Nu Nile
[00:24.65]Give the crew pounds everytime we cover new grounds
[00:27.23]Still surviving but there's a few down, back in the essence
[00:30.16]I'm asking questions on the phone, with jail adolescents
[00:32.75]Quiet confession, the system's applying the pressure
[00:35.59]My mind is guessing, is living and dying a lesson?
[00:38.22]But not to be obliged with the mirage
[00:39.85]Of cars taking you off track
[00:40.96]From with the gods focus on hard
[00:43.39]Laid up smoking cigars
[00:44.74]Motioning maids to bring me toast and eggs
[00:46.71]Kosher, ice chokers and wolves to smoke ya
[00:49.59]My wisdom culture lives in ultra madness
[00:51.29]Devoted coach bag *****
[00:52.68]Broke the average *****'s hopes to get mad rich
[00:54.97]But what's the purpose
[00:56.03]Only the Gods can watch the Earth twist
[00:57.94]I'm physically trapped down on the surface
[00:59.37]With all the crack merchants
[01:00.82]Snakes and serpents
[01:02.06]Foul jakes the searches
[01:03.38]Clowns with four pounds this ain't a circus
[01:06.98]Street dreamer
[01:09.57]Oh mercy mercy me
[01:11.59]Ain't nothing I got for ya
[01:16.42]Situations gettin heavy
[01:20.03]Heavy, heavy
[01:22.69]Trying to be a gangster
[01:26.13]The black clouds over the hood, I'm on the corner with the thugs
[01:28.74]Late night under the moon as they assume I'm slanging drugs
[01:31.26]Cause I'm hooded up, thought a G a night wasn't good enough
[01:33.92]Pushed my luck, yo they had a brother put in cuffs
[01:36.59]Luckily, made it out of court comfortably
[01:38.88]Judge said I need a job ain't nothing coming free
[01:41.31]Could've got a one to three
[01:42.70]I try to school these shorties under me
[01:44.52]But they can't see
[01:45.70]From life to death
[01:46.87]So know we back to where we never left the ghetto
[01:48.62]It's a damn shame, knowing it's a man's game
[01:50.80]Shorty thinks it's time to make ya plans change
[01:52.66]All that running round trying to chase
[01:54.21]What's already here - been there, it's going nowhere
[01:56.85]Pops told me knuckle up - no fear
[01:58.62]I wish some of these killings
[02:00.35]They could be prevented
[02:01.53]Whatever happens it was written
[02:03.16]Meaning God meant it
[02:04.39]But during ya life you put ya heart in it
[02:06.09]Even though it seems we being targeted
[02:07.93]Let that brother R hit it
[02:10.87]Street dreamer
[02:13.85]Oh mercy mercy me
[02:15.60]Ain't nothing I got for ya
[02:20.38]Situations gettin heavy
[02:24.12]Heavy, heavy
[02:26.54]Trying to be a gangster
[02:31.29]Dreamer
[02:33.72]Dreamer
[02:36.15]Dreamer
[02:38.75]Dreamer
[02:43.39]Street Dreamer........
[02:51.53]Sort of wild, since a child, hope was all we had
[02:53.94]Drip the bust out past
[02:55.21]Complaning the mental straining
[02:56.78]How many in my crew is into gaining
[02:58.79]Subtract the weak links about the chaining
[03:00.78]Rise it start raining
[03:02.42]Blasphemy using Nas name in vain
[03:04.65]Some claim supreme being yet they lied in his name
[03:07.17]I tried to learn the game
[03:08.67]And the only thing I found incredible
[03:10.12]Everything I tried to learn see, I already knew (that's right)
[03:13.09]And it's embedded in my heart now
[03:15.00]So I can sit back, count a stack
[03:16.75]And play my part now
[03:17.95]I saw my life flash in front of my eyes, he wore disguise
[03:20.57]Put a gun to me hungry he went on to chastize
[03:23.15]That's Nas ain't it, made it rich from entertainment
[03:25.83]Fresh Wally's painted, as he told the kid he came with
[03:28.57]My first thought was how the game flip
[03:31.08]Yo perhaps it was somebody I smacked drunk in a party on yak
[03:33.81]Or was I marked for a contract for some foul act
[03:36.54]I did a while back or beyond that
[03:38.96]You got me laying face flat
[03:40.57]Saying my grace black, woke up in a cold sweat
[03:42.18]Yo, I hate that
[03:44.58]Nightmares, feeling real, word to Will
[03:46.13]My A-Alike I lost in the battlefield
[03:48.02]That's why I hit the mic with mad appeal
[03:49.99]Grab ya shield and meet ya maker
[03:51.92]Queens ****** die for paper
[03:53.57]These the things the street dreams will take ya
[03:57.59]Street dreamer
[04:00.01]Oh mercy mercy me
[04:02.22]Ain't nothing I got for ya
[04:06.96]Situations gettin heavy
[04:10.65]Heavy, heavy
[04:13.00]Trying to be a gangster