[Verse 1]
Yo, I'm from the city where the corners is froze
n***as juxtapose with hoes and we scuffle with foes
Status determined by ya clothes and fresh kicks on ya toes
n***as walking up the blocks fooling policed dog nose
Remember, times with dimes in my pocket, the train I'd hop it
To double my profits, a coupe details, worth mentioned
Inches from canines with keen senses
A teen, but the weight I was moving would've earned an adult sentence
A couple times with the jakes on my a**
I was mad, hopped a fence and i ripped my f**ing pants, but yo
East Ferry street, n***as greeted with heat
Just last week a n***a got his sh** rocked to sleep
Out of towners who come, and see the falls
Sometimes experience crime for the first time or caught in a brawl
Hookers coming off the crawl, drunk can't stand, they walk using walls
Ayo the crime rate climbs, I used to move weight, now I'm focused only on rhymes
It's my only escape...so it only makes sense
When I commence to dispense real sh** that's intense
My intent is to spark ill like aids patients with flints
War vets is bent, they walking the chip strip, tryna get they dicks licked, it makes no sense
If you want who*e then you head towards Kenmore
But be easy black the beast got degrees in excessive force
[Hook]
As cold as my nightmare sweats
I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h
The city's cold, as cold as my nightmare sweats
I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h
The city's cold, as cold as my nightmare sweats
I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h
The city's cold, as cold as my nightmare sweats
I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h
[Verse 2]
Ayo, n***as love the summer cause it means more b**hes
But it brings more murders, and hospital visits
Homicides rise when Ra resides in the sky
Someone tell Rakim, to stop getting high
Fiends who, blatantly basing, they hard to be facing
They faces is, f**ed up beyond species relation
n***as is squeezing, letting off heat, police retreating
I listen, cause these streets, when we feasting they speaking
We only hold revolvers so we harder to be tracing
Young girls in tight jeans is missing menstruation
Litigation by my politicians, I'm in opposition
f** my state senators, lately what they done for us?
n***as bust, they make it hard for me to get a semi
In god we trust? Leave that sh** for my n***a Benny
Cause god is absent, so many n***as pa**ing, from trigger action
Leave weak n***as gasping, four fifths is blasting
We packing Mac knowledge knowledge
Hood scholars, let semis holler, instead of attending college
Priest are liars, f** the gospel
I'm living hostile opposed, I trust a fo'fo' to smite my foes
[Outro]
I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h...
I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h..