Slick Rick - Behind Bars

Check this out this Warren G y'know what I'm saying
Chilling wit my man Slick Rick you know
And we gonna give you all
a little tale about this jail stuff
You know so Rick why don't you run it homie yea
In the slammer kid but I'm innocent
Lord played witty wasn't having any pity
Now wit razor blades did he
Cry suppose the situation seen mad eyes of foes
Drives a Rolls hey yo money what size are those
Need to phone me toanothe sprang uphm to gang up
On the skid housing the phone like
he didn't know how to hang up
Would be hard though ought a minute
or so and then yells time on a
And when you get your commisary buy
this and that or else I'm gonna
Be on that ass and won't stay off
extort fig I say way off
Beaten death you ain't protecting me
forgot today's my day off
Hold my head and drift
the Sumo weighing nuts and cars
Instead of sitting here accumulating
cuts and scars behind bars
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Take some punk locked up to get beat
down ripped down to his boots is broke
down
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Riots malay and disturbances of the peace
Mister Slick Rick let me take it for a second
And tell a short tale about the LA county jail
9500 that was the lock up
When the lights got dim it was time for the soccer
Jacking for the money backstab was my mission
If a riot jumped out it's time for incision
Sticking niggas here and sticking niggas there
I turn around and look and seen cops everywhere
Jacking brothers up slapping brothers up
If you got blood on your clothes lock up
High powered was the level level fo'
Niggas sentenced to life and you can't be no ho bitch
Or you can't tooken wit homies overlooken
As safe next door wit the Puma straight cooking
Lighten up the whole module hm
Godamn yea anothe squabble
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Take some punk locked up to get beat
down ripped down to his boots is broke
down
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Riots malay and disturbances of the peace
Showing off cuz on the phone
click losing all the hoes off
Nigga housed the watch and
donna took all of the clothes off
Nigga hell with the was for my clothes figured telling
Every night it seem like mice be in
and out a nigga cell and
Still ain't home like on the hook
seen a bunch of kids look
Miss outdoors never know what
you have until it's tooken
And in fact the moment you fear
all of that you quote snaps
Well in a cell did the exercises and wrote raps
I be a bigger star than you
no never heard of the nigga
Takes my raps and read aloud
I want to murder the migga
Just kidding no offend to it finally he ended it
Case dismissed but your honor DA kindly prevented it
He told to the judge don't free him
this brother trigger wars
And not just that because
I refuse to wash some jive nigga doors
So hold the head drift the sunot
weight and nuts and cars
Instead of sitting here accumulating cuts and scars
Behind bars
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Take some punk locked up to get beat
down ripped down to his boots is broke
down
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Riots malay and disturbances of the peace
One fight the nigga trip seal the rest he might scared
By couldn't squeal I's like officer that nigga right there
Now if he ain't get me his friends will needed a utensil
It turn out I had to stab him in the eye wit a pencil
State of shock he made a yell
I said now what you want traitor
CO puts me in the bin I see ya about a month later
Back in population didn't matter
that his friends tensed
The phone prints the years added to the sentence
Still chilling and all of that and I escaped
When the damn thing sold don't hit the
sto' cause they made a rape attempt
Thank goodness failed call out next he wail out
Here go the CO Ricky Walters back up bailed out
The Co couldn't see the rape
the kid'll snithc mass figure
Fast trigger you'll be back you little bitch ass nigga
Au vare back to dating sluts and stars
At least for now no more accumulating cuts and scars
Behind bars
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Take some punk locked up to get beat
down ripped down to his boots is broke
down
Dum ditty dum ditty ditty datty day
This type of shit happens every day
Riots malay and disturbances of the peace
Slick Rick - Behind Bars

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