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

Yea, 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

(When the block is hot)

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

Uh, uh, it's beef week,

Monday, murder

Two niggaz dead, Tuesday

Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day

Friday, somebody-gotta-die-day

Saturday, put the gat away

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, I seen it, 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, a General,

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

I gotta use my imagination,