[ti:Ill Street Blues] [ar:Kool G Rap] [al:Live & Let Die] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ill Street Blues - Kool G Rap [00:03.31]Aw yeah word up word to mother [00:05.71]Here comes G Rap with another one y'all [00:08.48]We going to swing it like this [00:11.07]I'm right in front of my front steps thinking of a plan [00:13.54]Looking like Raggedy Ann no dough in hand kicking a can [00:15.84]Thinking of a plot to pull some bank in [00:18.17]Because I'm dead and stinking [00:19.57]Soles on my shoes winking t-shirt is shrinking [00:21.59]Soon I see some ties and my eyes open wide quick [00:24.54]Who's that with you chick Bill Blass my sidekick [00:27.27]What's up black Give his hand a smack [00:29.90]Up pulls a Cadillac yo baby we'll be back [00:32.48]Jumped right on inside not too many people saw us [00:35.12]Thinking about who gotta get robbed [00:36.22]Because the mob got a job for us [00:38.25]The drove us down to the sober section [00:40.57]Of town where the clowns don't be paying for protection [00:43.17]The want us to send a message to Jimmy the bartender [00:45.92]Lend a friend the money next you're ripping off his car fenders [00:48.97]He's coming up short cause he snorts [00:51.39]Coke d**e nope and hope he don't get caught [00:54.08]He owes some Benjamin Franklins every last bit of em [00:56.61]But Jimmy's pockets are empty so now we gotta get rid of him [00:59.76]But Jimmy's wife is with him and they don't want to involve her [01:02.34]Hopped out the back seat they gave me a revolver [01:04.76]Blass you distract him while I go and whack him [01:07.53]Entered through the back side of the bar and then attacked him [01:10.16]He's screaming for his life reaching for his wife [01:12.77]Shot him in the back of the head and shanked him with a knife [01:15.55]And that goes for anybody who's gotta pay they dues [01:18.26]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:20.99]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:23.65]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:26.35]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:29.02]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:31.46]Suckers I clobber because my town is full of cops and robbers [01:34.44]You're not promised tomorrow in this Little Shop of Horrors [01:37.08]So I got to get with the business of hit quick [01:39.88]Moneygrip's pocket's looking thick so I stick Slick [01:42.42]Hold it right here hands in the air [01:44.69]I know you got the loot [01:45.97]Or better yet face down on the ground [01:47.60]Empty your pockets troop [01:48.23]Hit the deck I got the Tech right on your neck [01:50.56]And I expect to make a buck to heck with a traveller's check [01:53.61]But if a vic' tries to choke me [01:55.57]I'll have to smoke him like [01:57.06]I'm Smokey the Bear so okie dokie [01:58.61]Goodbye or bon voyage have a good journey [02:01.19]Don't even try begging for your life that don't concern me [02:04.26]So to the next weasel that freezes [02:06.17]Your begging and your pleases only [02:07.55]Getting your closer to meeting Jesus [02:09.31]Yeah I shake a schmuck just to make a buck [02:11.70]Then I break a duck and if the duck gotta get bucked [02:13.83]Then I don't give a f**k [02:14.86]Hyper as a sniper piping niggas like a plumber [02:17.40]Cold vicking and sticking up the ones that run the numbers [02:20.05]Or even a bigger score the lady in the liquor store [02:23.10]Go inside and kick in the door [02:24.56]Pull her then I'm stickin her for [02:25.77]Money or your life honey hurry and choose [02:28.03]You lose because I got the Ill Street Blues [02:30.93]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:33.62]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:36.33]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:38.99]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [02:41.83]Extra extra read all about it in the papers [02:44.23]The boss tried to R**e us [02:45.86]So we tossed him off the skyscraper [02:47.45]Because he pulled some other people to try and hit us [02:49.80]Get us but none of them did us [02:51.28]He must be trying to kid us [02:52.85]But that's dead I'll thank God in the red [02:54.79]'Cross the bread borders [02:55.47]So nobody can short us [02:56.48]He fled down to headquarters [02:57.77]Ready to put some work in [02:58.92]We're not a lazy crew we'll do a job or two [03:00.85]But yo the man can't even stick me with some Crazy Glue [03:03.41]Ready to tore him even more because she saw him [03:05.85]We took out all the lookouts in the front [03:07.46]And kicked his door in [03:08.95]What's up snake why'd you violate [03:10.84]Because I'm a hossa (What's that ) [03:12.49]Yo that's a pig that don't fly straight [03:14.13]Getting ready to jab him [03:15.07]I grabbed him by the necktie [03:16.73]Homie tried to get fly [03:17.97]And swing I gave him a decked eye [03:19.53]You know the evil that men do [03:20.90]Hell is where the men go [03:22.08]We snatched him by his hands [03:23.30]And feet and threw him out the window [03:24.80]Up up and away cause I don't play clown [03:27.46]Buck buck buck take that with you on the way down [03:30.16]I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes [03:32.77]But you lose because I got the Ill Street Blues [03:35.53]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [03:38.14]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [03:40.93]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [03:43.72]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues