[00:00.00] 作词 : Andrew Hale/Isaac Hayes/Stuart Matthewman/J. Hunter/P. Phillips/Paul Denman/H. Adu[00:00.00] 作曲 : Andrew Hale/Isaac Hayes/Stuart Matthewman/J. Hunter/P. Phillips/Paul Denman/H. Adu[00:00.00](Inspectah Deck)[00:19.59]Check out the avenue, New York, New York the Rotten Apple[00:22.68]We grapple in the streets to stack loot and slip the shackles[00:25.41]I'm currently, servin twenty-nine to life[00:27.72]Duckin the searchlight, no sleep for like the third night[00:30.75]The big life is trife, got the young kids hyped[00:33.27]Cops shoot on sight, heat pipe be blowin through the night[00:36.12]The land where you ain't fam, there's no pity[00:38.58]Similar to Chocolate City, ten times gritty[00:41.31]Hittin hard, liquor's God, niggaz plottin on the come off[00:44.31]and come off, quicker than the clothes on the stripper[00:46.98]and slide like she doin up and down the railing[00:49.35]***** tailing in the Range with Golden Arms smooth sailin[00:52.32]The clock's tickin, somebody's on the block snitchin[00:55.05]The plot thickens, phones are tapped, cops listen[00:57.69]Too hot for prison, plus too cold to hold my girl[01:00.30]cause I married this life and she's my whole world[01:02.64]Chorus: {"{"}unknown singer}[01:03.27]It's just a sign of the times[01:06.60]Calmly listen - to these lines..[01:13.02]I'm goin out of my mind[01:17.82]Livin - the street life..[01:23.55](Inspectah Deck)[01:24.60]Aiyyo, aiyyo[01:24.78]Make me wanna holla way they do my life[01:27.15]My life, is like a carousel one endless night[01:29.91]Where most die for pies, some holdin their chrome[01:32.49]A large percent die for causes not even their own[01:35.28]When the Inspectah Deck be long dead and gone[01:38.01]long live the INS clone they workin on[01:40.32]Til then, I hold a section, I stand alone no co-defendant[01:43.50]Showin the weapon, this saga had no story endin[01:46.26]It's ghetto heaven, and at the same time hell - shots propel[01:49.65]The one that missed me got Chanel[01:51.54]In the future ruled by computer, I self tutor[01:54.33]The music is the simulator, facin the user[01:57.03]I do it for those who walk the same road[01:59.43]And no regrets do I hold for the path I chose[02:02.28]No sleep since the intro, patrol the windows[02:04.86]I reminisce, with the chalice and my eyes half closed[02:07.56]If I could do it again, I'd probably do it the same[02:10.20]Thought I was through with the game, I'm goin through it again[02:13.17]The hood life, I'm in it to the limit[02:15.21]Couldn't quit it for a digit, die for it cause I live it[02:34.35]Chorus[02:34.59](Inspectah Deck)[02:39.81]Yo, been around the world but just can't seem to leave[02:42.84]the state of mind that causes tangled web I weave[02:45.39]Made my home in the heart of it[02:47.04]Move like Seagal, "Hard Target"[02:49.08]Most want no part of it, it's logic[02:51.12]Cutthroat party in the Shark Pit[02:53.16]Cold blooded souls carry bulldogs and oxes, knowledge this[02:56.82]Maintain and remain sane[02:58.86]In the cold world where the rules ain't changed[03:01.44]Still Rebel to society, government be eyein me[03:04.44]They probably watchin me right now as I'm speakin[03:07.14]But all I'm guilty of is teachin you the truth[03:09.42]They got proof, so you know I'll be home before the weekend[03:12.57]The hood life, I'm in it to the limit[03:14.70]In it from the scrimmage, livin it, lovin every minute[03:17.91]and every hour, til the powers that be[03:20.28]eventually stress me to the death[03:24.36]"Y'all know the science right?"[03:25.56]"Death with the intellect"[03:27.18]"aight.. aight.."[03:27.81]"Represent, I make it hot "[03:30.18]"13th.. chamber.. specialist.. from the Bricks"[03:33.63]Chorus[03:33.90]{" { "}unknown singer}[03:55.59]Street life.. so trife..[04:01.08]Street life.. for life..[04:06.42]Feels like.. feels like..[04:10.89]my paradiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiise..[04:17.76]" Yeah y'all.. uh-huh.." (7X to fade)