Backstreet

The air is still, the heat is rising

summertime's on the horizon

little girl with a baby crying

cause she's got no food to eat

And it ain't that, nobody's listening

And it ain't that, nobody cared

It's just that everybody's busy looking out for what is theirs

I'm a hustler, on the corner, making very little money

But down the block, on the other corner

This nigger's down there getting paid

What's he doing and I ain't doing?

He got clothes and fancy things

Bigger car and pretty women, watch what jealousy and envy brings

on the backstreet, that's where I live

on the backstreet, there ain't nothing as it is

Now up the block comes mamy Celoo… say what's happening, how you feel?

He don't care about no … cause he's only keeping it real

… what's happening down the block yo, hood is down and taking mile

Celoo knows about his benice, so he runs it down one time

He … keys straight from Miami, looks it up and sells it cheap

You ain't getting none but ...from Sally so your prices are too steep

But I got just the thing you need son, if you really want to win

Sun light sparkles on his gold fronts as he makes this evil grin

take a walk on down to my crib then let me show you something new

I got loads of guns and ammo that I bought from this white dude

he could take that I was down and I was just the man to see

and he fronted me and … of artillery on the backstreet

that's where I live, on the backstreet, yeah

there ain't nothing as it is

Now in his bedroom it's amazing, he's got guns of every kind

He light a … we start blazing then I picked the one that shined

It's an old school Calicola, semi auto dark as night

It's just the thing I need to make my situation tight

So he shows me how to load it since I don't know what to do

Aims towards the wall and it exploded, through this poster of Ice Cube

… so much devastation that it's obvious to me

That is just the thing to separate your soul from your body

on the backstreet, that's where I live

on the backstreet, yeah, there ain't nothing positive

I went home and starting … for my come up … night

In the darkest catch them slipping, take as real money is live

I'll just catch him as he goes out to his car to make a run

Now you can't front when you're confronted with the cold steel of a gun

When that comes and I'm moving on the creep all dressed in black

wearing a ski mask so he won't know who just put him on his back

So I hid behind the bushes at the people's house next door

3 shots rang out from behind me and my blood began to pour, no

What? What now boy? Told you I was gonna get you boy

Thought he's gonna catch me sleeping, in your dream

Do it hurt? Let's go

Everything happened in one swift action, should I just couldn't believe

Celoo told them what was happening, I been tricked up and deceived

And it ain't that, nobody's heard it

And it ain't that, nobody cared

It's just that everybody was busy looking out for what was theirs

Not … city, what they call the mcc

I don't really know what that means but it's what the cops called me

They don't care what happens to me, they don't miss me on the beat

All they know is that there's one less nigger

Hanging on the backstreet, where I used to live

On the backstreet, there ain't nothing, nothing,

the choices you make can make or break you

the choices you make can make or break you

the choices you make can make or break you

the choices you make can make or break you.