Icon (of Brooklyn Academy) - Pros and Cons lyrics

[Intro: Sample from The Hi-Jackers (1963)] [?]: Where, where do I have to go? [?]: Here, I'll help you down on the track [?]: Come on. Please don't. There's nothing to worry about [?]: Look, somebody's pulling him down [?]: [?] this way [Hook: Block McCloud] Enjoy this day ‘cause it may be your last one Out in Brooklyn, yo, n***as quick to blast, son Take the cash, son. Tear you to leave that a** done The pros and cons run game and pull a fast one [Verse 1: Block McCloud] I'll paint the scene: mean streets and red eyes Dark night, the dead rise, spark light to get high I am the light that gets ‘em high as a kite Try as they might to survive, they die in the night Overdosing on the hot gutter Lick a shot with they boxcutter and hand trying to rob your mother co*ks**ers, knee-scrapers on the dicks ‘Cause they want to fix. If they could, they'd pawn they kicks Ex-convicts walks amongst us when guns bust Snakes and jakes get bumrushed I walk where none trust one another Son or brother, treat ‘em like they undercover Run for cover. [Cops is busting, throwing, bombs is going off?] k**ed a kid age twelve. I know his moms The show must go on. Just the pro and con Sun up to sundown, get in my way and get gunned down [Hook: Block McCloud] (x2) Enjoy this day ‘cause it may be your last one Out in Brooklyn, yo, n***as quick to blast, son Take the cash, son. Tear you to leave that a** done The pros and cons run game and pull a fast one [Verse 2: Block McCloud] I'll paint the scene: mean streets and the town red I'll get down, kid—you could be the next one found dead I give not a damn. I got no land to call my own A broken home filled with violence is all I've known My family is my peeps in the streets I dwell Dark as deep are the lyrics, beats by William Tell Beats the hell out of school and reenacting lies Teachers patronize, so I collab and hit natural highs Mom dukes gave me the boot, so I live elsewhere Bid my mama farewell and got on welfare Drug loot from slinging krills pay the bill. It'll stay that way Until the day I'm k**ed and laying ill with old age Ayyo, I ain't asked to be born, but I sworn To see a mill before my life is gone I ain't taught between good and bad ‘cause I ain't have a choice And no one asked me what I feel, so I ain't had no voice I'm just a pro and con, mixed up from sun up to sundown, son Get in my way and get gunned down [Bridge: Block McCloud] It's today. Not tomorrow but today Not yesterday. Escapade, enjoy the day [Hook: Block McCloud] (x2) Enjoy this day ‘cause it may be your last one Out in Brooklyn, yo, n***as quick to blast, son Take the cash, son. Tear you to leave that a** done The pros and cons run game and pull a fast one [Outro: I-See-On and (Block McCloud)] Yo, run that sh**, son. Word up, man. Yo, you crazy, son. Yo, get, get up on the wall, son. Word up, man. Take that off, son. Take that off, n***a. Word up. Nobody shining if I ain't shining, son. Word up, man. Word up. Pat that n***a down, son. (Chill). What, you got money on you, son? What? Let me get that sh**, man. Word up, son. Yo, let's be out, son. Yo