Trife Life

It's just another day drowning my troubles with a forty That's when I got the call from this brownskin shorty She asked me where's my crew at Said we could do whatever She got her crew too and said that we should get together I said "Aight -- just call me back in a hour So I can take a shower and gather up the manpower" Then I hung up the horn And I thought to myself that it might be on Cause this trick ain't pick up the phone to call me in years Why Ever since I left the hoe lonely in tears Ain't no telling what her friends putting up in her ears Ideas of setting me up I'm not trying ta hear Check it out Son So we take the gats for precautions Plus this trick live in Brooklyn home of the coffin She might got a whole batallion of Bucktowners Waiting for us to get up off the train and surround us Or maybe I'm blowin this sh*t out of proportion But this sh*t do happen to niggaz very often So f**k it a ni**a gotta do what he meant to My crew got my back f**k the world is my mental We put together five soldiers the b**ch called My blood curdled told me to meet her on Myrtle Got to the plaza we're waiting for the G train We put a plan together just in case the beef came Now we Bed Stuy bound Far from home and on unknown ground But together we six deep with five heats nuttin sweet First ni**a fronting getting lifted off his f**kin feet It took eternity we reached our destination My heartbeat is racin like a cardiac patient We finally got to Myrtle outside the train station I saw not a soul told my peoples to be patient But hold up thats when a black caravan rolled up My legs then froze up I grabbed my pound Told my man "Eyes open cause it might go down" Said he don't like the way the sh*t is startin to sound Evey angle of the car was smoked out and tinted So we couldn't tell if the enemy was in it It mighta been TNT I wasn't tryin to wait and see we Jetted thru Marcy cause Dee's ain't baggin me Word Son they got us on the run Dunn see yo Check it out check it out check it out yo Trife life got me thinkin like an animal No doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt yo What can kill you is what you don't know OK check it you're on your way to your girl's crib But the b**ch live in the 'Bridge You ain't really sweatin it cause little do you know The niggaz in the 'Bridge be settin it You thought you was safe and tried to walk the backstreets without heat On the 41st Side settin it of 12th Street The side where niggaz don't give a f**k The side where if you come through fronting kid you gettin bucked On your way to apartment 3A With a phat herringbone let him slide no days Son get the heat cause I'm about to stick them F**k that sh*t yo if that ni**a front yo hit him Aight bet so just hold it down While I cock back the long three pound You're upstairs boning not knowing that I'm scheaming Just the right time kid it's twelve in the evening You're leaving out the building as you kiss your girl goodbye Thought you was safe and got caught by surprised "What's goin on " as I reply "Shut the f**k up and don't make this 'to another homicide" He tried to play tough so I put one in his brain Even though I took his life all I wanted was the chain Come through truck without heat how you figure When you in the projects keep your fingers on the trigger But f**k that we're juxin if you got what we like you gets tooken Put you on your back send you on your way yo good looking Now be catchin the cap that holes in ya Lewis in Brooklyn Gettin to' up from the flo' up hit the dress sto' up Got the 80-0 in case a ni**a wanna roll up Get'cha motherf**kin sh*t swoll up Now it's back to Queens to serve fiends Makin G's by any means my eyes on my enemies Sippin Hennessey with my mind on some crime sh*t One-time searchin me but never ever find sh*t It's the everyday get the loot then breeze Though my goal is to leave outta state push kiss But all this b******t holdin me down I can't leave F**k a 9-to-5 I get the loot with ease Don't even need a degree to earn a six-digit figure I get mines slingin on the corner with my niggaz Pulling the trigger when the drama appears Cause that ni**a worse enemy is FEAR So yo Check it out check it out check it out yo Trife life got me thinking like an animal No doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt yo What can kill you is what you don't know No doubt so what can kill you is what you don't know