Hold Down The Block-Nas

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[00:00.00]Hold Down The Block - Nas
[00:10.38]I gotta lay down the block
[00:13.03]When the block is hot
[00:15.38]I gotta use my imagination
[00:17.97]To change the situation
[00:20.67]I gotta lay down the block
[00:23.33]When the block is hot
[00:25.82]I gotta use my imagination
[00:28.39]To change the situation
[00:30.71]Yea Feds feast on street dons
[00:32.00]Look at their teeth showin'
[00:34.00]Salivatin' at the mouth
[00:35.48]South to East Orange
[00:36.70]Keep pourin' that liquor
[00:38.01]But ni**a don't sleep on it
[00:39.15]You'll be givin' up your Jesus piece
[00:40.69]To your peeps to pawn it
[00:41.84]For legal fees in the penal dorm
[00:43.62]Screamin' on the horn with 'bout
[00:45.30]Thirty years on your conscience
[00:46.37]I'm watchin' brothers disappear
[00:48.51]It's appallin'
[00:49.37]Some dudes had just only a year of ballin'
[00:51.84]Counter-intelligence
[00:53.01]Found a strange evidence
[00:54.10](When the block is hot)
[00:55.05]Still we behind the wheel with heat on us
[00:56.91]Hangin' with predicates
[00:58.10]Position we placed in caves in
[00:59.38]So they got us caged in
[01:00.63]Ways spinnin' like Mike Bivens
[01:02.11]From New Edition aging
[01:03.22]I got families I'm feeding '
[01:05.15]Cause my mans is bleeding
[01:06.52]Every five seconds look in all directions
[01:08.47]I come through prepared;
[01:10.15]I give 'em a call
[01:11.08]I'm close bring them guns downstairs
[01:12.75]I gotta lay down the block
[01:14.84]When the block is hot
[01:17.45]I gotta use my imagination
[01:19.98]To change the situation
[01:22.87]I gotta lay down the block
[01:25.46]When the block is hot (hold it down)
[01:28.42]I gotta use my imagination
[01:30.71]To change the situation
[01:32.86]Uh uh it's beef week
[01:34.03]Monday murder
[01:35.12]Two niggaz dead Tuesday
[01:36.69]Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day
[01:38.38]Friday somebody-gotta-die-day
[01:40.27]Saturday put the gat away
[01:42.40]Chillin' wit your chick and a bag of haze
[01:44.86]Wonderin' how it's all gon' end
[01:46.65]And what type of way
[01:47.59]'Cause Sunday back to gunplay
[01:49.11]Mo' sh*t start over nothin'
[01:51.20]And get finished quick 'cause
[01:52.31]The art of repercussion
[01:54.19]Yeah I seen it a G' going out indecent
[01:56.96]Takin' a plea agreement
[01:58.15]Thinkin' he secret
[01:59.33]Escape the crime scene
[02:00.52]Now you live straight like 9:15
[02:02.84]Then one-time intervene
[02:04.57]My man ain't like me sayin'
[02:05.65]I don't care if I die
[02:06.89]But the SIG Sauer on me now
[02:08.55]I'm scared to die
[02:09.52]You thinkin' the one
[02:10.55]I send to clap you be a shorty
[02:11.97]But he old school holdin' a 38
[02:13.55]He in his forties
[02:14.70]I gotta lay down the block
[02:17.43]When the block is hot
[02:19.94]I gotta use my imagination
[02:22.84]To change the situation
[02:25.20]I gotta lay down the block
[02:27.40]When the block is hot
[02:29.97]I gotta use my imagination
[02:32.85]To change the situation
[02:35.05](I gotta ) Anytime brothers
[02:36.24]Can't get jobs then they rob
[02:38.39]A man rather die than
[02:39.38]Live on his knees and starve
[02:41.14]Cops steady askin' your man what happened
[02:43.44]First he tell then he stop
[02:44.55]Like he not really rattin'
[02:46.14]Guess he not really
[02:46.88]In that casket from a sawed-off
[02:49.04]Listen
[02:49.28]Peep game from the brain of an all-star
[02:51.68]The rain hurt niggaz bones who been shot
[02:53.91]Metal pins in their leg
[02:55.38]They walk with a limp-hop
[02:56.95]The streets lie
[02:57.55]So you better be cautious
[02:59.14]Your man'll fry you plus
[03:00.55]Everybody talkin'
[03:02.16]A vet a General
[03:03.01]Don't step where I walked in
[03:04.49]Make your own path
[03:05.52]Be a legend in your skin
[03:07.02]Make your own cash
[03:07.85]Don't stress what I'm forcin'
[03:09.38]Don't expect more
[03:09.92]When you put in less work than all them
[03:12.57]Queensbridge projects has taught him
[03:14.71]And that's for life
[03:16.01]You heard me right I got the block
[03:18.65]When the block is hot
[03:28.99](When the block is hot)
[03:32.93]I gotta use my imagination
[03:35.24]To change the situation
[03:37.86]I gotta hold down the block
[03:40.45]When the block is hot
[03:42.99]I gotta use my imagination
[03:45.65]To change the situation
[03:48.24]I gotta hold down the block
[03:50.93]When the block is hot
[03:53.51]I gotta use my imagination