j-live《The Sidewalks》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.15]J Live [00:07.95]Yo I grew up on the chill side [00:19.11]The no big deal side [00:28.44]Where staying alive was no problem [00:29.40]The other east side [00:30.00]Projects and condos [00:30.72]Somewhere in between downtown and harlem [00:32.18]It's not quite accurate to claim half [00:33.39]Either side was ever either all this or all that [00:35.31]Some projects apartments be decked out fat [00:37.08]Some condos still packed with roaches and rats [00:38.85]But if New York is a concrete Jungle [00:39.96]My old earth kept me in the zoo where it wasnt so wild [00:41.49]Who wouldn't want to find a way to make it safe for a child [00:43.41]As a teenager I learned to escape for awhile [00:44.97]But you know what they say being out of your element [00:46.50]Whether giraffe monkey lion or elephant [00:47.70]In school they said I was on the right track [00:48.75]But in the school of hard knocks I done got left back [00:50.34]Nowadays no knocks get left [00:51.09]My left knocks back [00:51.66]Some say might makes right [00:53.31]So my rights ain't light [00:54.48]But whether giving beatdowns or getting down on beat [00:56.22]You're not likely to see me or consider me street [00:58.38]Chorus [00:58.71]But from the sidewalks I see how it's rough out there [00:59.94]I see the extra large dosage of life ain't fair [01:02.37]From the sidewalks I see how the gas don't last [01:04.41]In the streets and you crash when you go too fast [01:06.09]From the sidewalks trust s**t is Just as real [01:07.95]Even if your lifestyle ain't kill or be killed [01:09.27]From the sidewalks Chris Rock got you gassed [01:10.59]But I'm that smarter than y'all n***a that'll whoop your a*s [01:12.24]J Live [01:12.72]Yo I love New York I am New York [01:13.86]The way I spin break beats make beats and talk [01:15.48]The way I eat sleep drink f**k spit and walk [01:17.31]The way I build and destroy cause that's how I was taught [01:19.98]I'm feeling Philly for now I don't get home sick [01:21.96]I'm still close enough to the Yanks Giants and Knicks [01:23.97]It's still city to city Just different bricks [01:25.29]See I don't divide by places man f**k that s**t [01:26.94]It's a different state but similar state of mind [01:28.62]See every city got the same theme underlined [01:30.00]A battleground for the lives of the dumb and blind [01:31.53]Ya heard [01:31.74]Please believe that it takes all kinds [01:33.60]We all got to get over in our own way [01:35.16]Place to stay peace to lay and a pay day [01:36.48]I get mines the legit way [01:37.59]But no telling what I do to protect mines [01:38.85]So you best respect my [01:39.66]Kindness for weakness face for fear [01:41.28]Common mistakes are made until the cards are played [01:43.02]But don't step to my door thinking something is sweet [01:44.73]Or we won't even have to take it all the way to the street [01:46.89]Cuz from the sidewalks corners that I clean and own [01:48.45]Never f**k with the sanctity of my home [01:50.28]From the sidewalks I rep from New York to Philly [01:51.90]So from Broadway to Broad Street you got to feel me [01:53.85]From the sidewalks I know how to hold it down [01:55.11]On my own when I come through and visit your town [01:56.43]From the sidewalks Chris Rock got you gassed [01:57.87]But I'm that smarter than y'all n***a that'll whoop your a*s [01:59.37]J Live [01:59.58]Yo from the sidewalks I been watching Hip Hop grow [02:01.98]And vice versa from school battles to my own show [02:04.02]I watch skills evolve and the necks up blow [02:06.33]Motivated by the love for the art and the dough [02:08.34]I seen people influenced by the next man's flow [02:10.88]To the point that it controls where they content go [02:14.04]But if there's 8 million stories and a handful of rappers [02:16.47]We can't all be pimps players and gunclappers [02:18.15]It sounds sexy coming out your stereo right [02:19.41]But then you wonder why we still getting stereotyped [02:21.15]Like we a whole generation of [02:22.53]Want to be thugs and soon to be h*es [02:23.85]Like that's Just how it go [02:24.60]But everybody in the city ain't ghetto [02:26.25]We all not slanging rocks and toatin' metal and [02:27.51]Everybody in the ghetto ain't gangster [02:28.53]Waiting for a reason to stomp shoot and shank ya and [02:30.27]Every gangster in the ghetto ain't stupid as you [02:31.59]Advocating that b******t the way that you do [02:32.82]Like there's no consequences or repercussions [02:34.65]Like we don't even think first before we start bustin' [02:36.24]But whatever's clever son I let them tell it [02:38.10]Why should I play the role of zealot Just for y'all to repel it [02:40.26]I'd rather rep for the rest of us with real talk [02:41.79]So I'm out like that [02:55.56]J transmitting live from the sidewalks [03:09.36]From the sidewalks x 23