we together on the same track now baby whatchu gone call us now holton street dean street prezident nostrand ave marcy orange ave rbgs t town who wanna ride brooklyn come on come on sittin in the living room on the floor hunger pain got me on some migraine shit but i m a maintain nigga got two or three dollars to my name and my homies in the same boat going through the same thing ready for the caper steady plottin for the paper we been livin in the dark since april on the candle gotta get a handle my homie got a twenty five automatic added to the gamble nigga get the phonebook look up in the yellow page lemme tell you how we finna to get paid we gonna order pizza and when we see the driver we gonna stick the twenty five up in his face let s ride steppin outside like warriors head to the notorious southside one weapon to the four of us hidin in the corridor until we see the dominos car headlights white boy in the wrong place at the right time soon as the car door open up he mine we roll up quick and put the pistol to his nose by the look on his face he probably shitted in his clothes you know what this is it s a stick up gimme the dough from your pickups you ran into the wrong niggas we runnin down the block hot with these pizza boxes so we split up and met back at the apartment hell yeah yo ain t you hungry my nigga hell yeah you wanna get paid my nigga hell yeah ain t you tired of starvin my nigga hell yeah well let s ride then hell yeah hell yeah i know a way we can get paid you can get down but you can t be afraid let s go to the dmv and get a id the name says you but the face is me now it s your turn take my paper work like 1 2 3 let s make it work then fill out the credit card application and it s gonna be bout three weeks of waitin for american express discover card platinum visa master card cause when we was boostin shit we was targets now we just walk right up and say charge it to the game we rockin brand names well known at department store chains even got the boys in the crew a few things po po never know who to true blame store after store you know we kept rollin wait two weeks report the card stolen repeat this cycle like a laundry mat like a glitch in the system it s hard to catch comin out the mall with the shoppin bags we can take it right back then get the cash yeah get a friend and then do it again damn right that s how we paid the rent  got to get this paper i m down for the caper we steady on the grind it s a daily struggle we all gotta hustle this is the way we survive as long as there s drugs to be sold i ain t waitin for the system to plug up these holes i ain t slippin through the cracks so i m at portland oregon tryin to slip you these raps the first black in the suburbs you d think i had ecstasy percocet and plus syrup the way the cops converged they fucked up my swerve the first young buck that i served i thought back to the block i never seen a cop when i was out there they never came out there and out there i was slingin crack to live i m only slingin raps to your kids i m only trying to show you how black niggas live but you don t want your little ones actin like this lil amy told becky becky told jenny and now they all know the skinny lil joey got his doo rag on driving down the street blastin 2pac s song but billy like snoop got his blue rag on now before you know it you back in nam now the police got me in the middle of the street trying to beat me blue black and orange i m like hold up who you smacking on i m only trying to eat what you snacking on hell yeah y all don t like that do you hell yeah you fucked up the hood nigga right back to you hell yeah you know we tired of starvin my nigga hell yeah let s ride hell yeah let s ride if you claimin gangsta then bang on the system and show that you ready to ride till we get our freedom we got to get over we steady on the grind holton street dean street click clack president nostrand ave orange ave tee town who wanna ride brooklyn come on come on we got to get over please steady on the grind2