Nas - Hold Down The Block

I gotta lay down the block
when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
I gotta lay down the block
when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
Feds feast on street dons
look at their teeth showin'
Salivatin' at the mouth
South to East Orange
Keep pourin' that liquor
but nigga don't sleep on it
You'll be givin' up
your Jesus piece to
your peeps to pawn it
For legal fees
in the penal dorm
Screamin' on the horn
with 'bout thirty years on
your conscience
I'm watchin' brothers disappear
it's appallin'
Some dudes had just
only a year of ballin'
Counter intelligence
found a strange evidence
Still we behind the
wheel with heat on us
hangin' with predicates
Position we placed in caves in
so they got us caged in
Ways spinnin' like Mike Bivens
from New Edition aging
I got families
I'm feeding 'cause
my mans is bleeding
Every five seconds
look in all directions
I come through prepared
I give 'em a call
I'm close
bring them guns downstairs
I gotta lay down the block
when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
I gotta lay down the block
when the block is hot
hold it down
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
it's beef week Monday murder
Two niggaz dead Tuesday
Wednesday and
Thursday is hearse day
Friday somebody gotta die day
Saturday
Chillin' wit your chick
and a bag of haze
Wonderin' how it's all gon'
end and what type of way
'Cause Sunday back to gunplay
Mo' shit start over nothin'
And get finished quick
'cause the art of repercussion
Yeah
a G' going out indecent
Takin' a plea agreement
thinkin' he secret
Escape the crime scene
now you live straight like 9 15
Then one time intervene
My man ain't like me sayin'
I don't care if I die
But the SIG Sauer on me now
I'm scared to die
You thinkin' the one
I send to clap you be a shorty
But he old school
holdin' a 38 he in his forties
I gotta lay down the block
when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
I gotta lay down the block
when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
I gotta
Anytime brothers can't get
jobs then they rob
A man rather die than
live on his knees and starve
Cops steady askin' your man
what happened
First he tell then he stop
like he not really rattin'
Guess he not really in that
casket from a sawed off
Listen peep game from the
brain of an all star
The rain hurt niggaz bones
who been shot
Metal pins in their leg
they walk with a limp hop
The streets lie
so you better be cautious
Your man'll fry you plus
everybody talkin'
A vet
don't step where I walked in
Make your own path
be a legend in your skin
Make your own cash
don't stress what I'm forcin'
Don't expect more when you
put in less work than all them
Queensbridge projects
has taught him
and that's for life
You heard me right
I got the block
When the block is hot

When the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
I gotta hold down the block
when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination
to change the situation
I gotta hold down the block
when the block is hot

Nas - Hold Down The Block

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