Off the Block

Off the Block - E-40/Stressmatic/J. Banks

Oh these hard time

Just trying to get trying to get by

Trying to get by trying to get by

Woo

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we give up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we give up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

Off the course of my religion I try not to go to prison

Wash out shoot with precision

My vision never missing with just the rightful ammunition

These double do studs go though your ligaments

We created this sequel despite our skin and our pigment

One day I hope to become legitimate legitimate

That's the thought process of a young hustler about his money

Far from a dummy smart enough to run a big company

If I was put in position the end results would be lucrative

No more life on the run living life as a fugitive

I register m*******a smoking my lungs to decrease the stress

Got a vest of olive oil that the pastor blessed

Then I take out the bottle put it on my head and chest

To protect me from death

It gruesome out here it's spooky ugly and murkily

It's dirty out here

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we give up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we give up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

I went off the block you ain't no better than me

My sins ain't no worse than yours only father like God can judge me

I heard somebody say I'm sick of they urban gear

The dreads and the saggy pants I've had it up to here

They said why y'all show your draws and wear them way down there

I said why you show your balls and wear them way up there

Contradictions and criticisms we trapped in the system

It's not a lot of school but it's a lot of prisons

By big homey went though with me and just like me and you

Hoping and wishing for a financial breakthrough

Where I'm coming from you gotta be street smart not dumb

Put your hands up don't run cops will shoot you with a gun

Consequences everyone makes mistakes

What's between today and tomorrow is your faith

It gruesome out here it's spooky ugly and murkily

It's dirty out here

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we give up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we get it up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

Off the block try and make it off the block

The markers in yellow tape bodies outline in chalk

We be funking non-stop warring and beefing

Trying to take off the top we stressing depressing

Nobody to ask us a question

The government treat us like peasants

Can;t get a job no reference

Back in the day we had some scrill

But now you get on jail on purpose just to get a decent meal

Stop chasing this high you can get some get back

With a strong guy got a monkey on his back

I see it all the time

The people that help they must be the ones that give the hardest time

That's some backward a** sh*t

Act like you owe'em some you don't owe'em sh*t

It gruesome out here it's spooky ugly and murkily

It's dirty out here

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we get it up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

We don't stop always running from the cops

Praying night and day selling rocks gotta make it out

Before we get it up

It's ugly try to make it off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block man

I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block man

I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block

I'm tryin to get off the block

Out of the block yeah