[ti:Ill Street Blues (Acapella Version)] [ar:Kool G Rap] [al:Live & Let Die] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ill Street Blues (Acapella Version) - Kool G Rap [00:00.36]I'm right in front of my front steps thinking of a plan [00:03.39]Looking like Raggedy Ann no dough in hand kicking a can [00:06.20]Thinking of a plot to pull some bank in [00:08.28]Because I'm dead and stinking [00:09.53]Soles on my shoes winking t-shirt is shrinking [00:11.56]Soon I see some ties and my eyes open wide quick [00:14.49]Who's that with you chick Bill Blass my sidekick [00:17.00]What's up black Give his hand a smack [00:19.74]Up pulls a Cadillac yo baby we'll be back [00:22.21]Jumped right on inside not too many people saw us [00:24.89]Thinking about who gotta get robbed [00:25.94]Because the mob got a job for us [00:27.85] [00:28.41]The drove us down to the sober section [00:30.43]Of town where the clowns don't be paying for protection [00:33.08]The want us to send a message to Jimmy the bartender [00:36.15]Lend a friend the money next you're ripping off his car fenders [00:39.20]He's coming up short cause he snorts [00:41.25]Coke d**e nope and hope he don't get caught [00:44.07]He owes some Benjamin Franklins every last bit of em [00:46.80]But Jimmy's pockets are empty so now we gotta get rid of him [00:49.61]But Jimmy's wife is with him and they don't want to involve her [00:52.11]Hopped out the back seat they gave me a revolver [00:54.63]Blass you distract him while I go and whack him [00:57.55]Entered through the back side of the bar and then attacked him [01:00.12]He's screaming for his life reaching for his wife [01:02.73]Shot him in the back of the head and shanked him with a knife [01:05.55]And that goes for anybody who's gotta pay they dues [01:08.27]You lose cause I got the Ill Street Blues [01:10.31] [01:21.42]Suckers I clobber because my town is full of cops and robbers [01:24.40]You're not promised tomorrow in this Little Shop of Horrors [01:27.02]So I got to get with the business of hit quick [01:29.88]Moneygrip's pocket's looking thick so I stick Slick [01:32.26]Hold it right here hands in the air I know you got the loot [01:36.00]Or better yet face down on the ground empty your pockets troop [01:38.28]Hit the deck I got the Tech right on your neck [01:40.54]And I expect to make a buck to heck with a traveller's check [01:43.54]But if a vic' tries to choke me [01:45.52]I'll have to smoke him like I'm Smokey the Bear so okie dokie [01:48.66]Goodbye or bon voyage have a good journey [01:51.39]Don't even try begging for your life that don't concern me [01:53.91]So to the next weasel that freezes [01:55.86]Your begging and your pleases [01:57.32]Only getting your closer to meeting Jesus [01:58.75] [01:59.39]Yeah I shake a schmuck just to make a buck [02:01.92]Then I break a duck and if the duck gotta [02:03.71]Get bucked then I don't give a f**k [02:05.06]Hyper as a sniper piping niggas like a plumber [02:07.46]Cold vicking and sticking up the ones that run the numbers [02:09.86] [02:10.60]Or even a bigger score the lady in the liquor store [02:13.08]Go inside and kick in the door pull her then I'm stickin her for [02:15.90]Money or your life honey hurry and choose [02:17.83]You lose because I got the Ill Street Blues [02:20.42] [02:31.93]Extra extra read all about it in the papers [02:34.42]The boss tried to R**e us so we tossed him off the skyscraper [02:37.43]Because he pulled some other people to try and hit us [02:39.87]Get us but none of them did us he must be trying to kid us [02:42.57]But that's dead I'll thank God in the red 'cross the bread borders [02:45.34]So nobody can short us he fled down to headquarters [02:48.07]Ready to put some work in we're not a lazy crew we'll do a job or two [02:51.62]But yo the man can't even stick me with some Crazy Glue [02:53.98]Ready to tore him even more because she saw him [02:55.76]We took out all the lookouts in the front and kicked his door in [02:58.85]What's up snake why'd you violate [03:00.39] [03:00.93]Because I'm a hossa (What's that ) [03:02.43]Yo that's a pig that don't fly straight [03:04.43]Getting ready to jab him I grabbed him by the necktie [03:06.86]Homie tried to get fly and swing I gave him a decked eye [03:09.71]You know the evil that men do hell is where the men go [03:12.37]We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window [03:15.20]Up up and away cause I don't play clown [03:17.55]Buck buck buck take that with you on the way down [03:20.22]I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes [03:22.68]But you lose because I got the Ill Street Blues