All We Got Left Is The Beat-LL Cool J

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[00:01.14]Ey ey check it out homie
[00:02.32]Man you need to get up out of this spot man
[00:03.99]And get a job man before you get smoked man
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[00:05.57](yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah son )
[00:06.45]I know you don't wanna hear it man
[00:07.99]But ey man wait hold up loc
[00:09.69]You got company man
[00:10.59](where's my guns )
[00:11.14]When I'm ridin' on the street I hear gunshots
[00:12.79]
[00:13.46](swear) crack niggas cause they moms missed flips
[00:15.95]So black man really care about politics
[00:17.78]
[00:19.14]In the ninety's our governments so slick
[00:21.76]I watch CNN sometimes and I realize
[00:24.91]They're playin' tricks on my mind
[00:26.82]They want a man to work with his hands
[00:29.02]Too young to die and they don't give a damn
[00:31.82]Rare-momma got down on her knees
[00:33.93]But not no more god damn it I make cheese
[00:36.57]I'm on the move and I'ma show and prove
[00:39.04]You might cry to my political groove
[00:41.50]Rest in peace Sauce Brothers underneath
[00:43.99]I love you to death while my beats' like a reef
[00:46.84]In the middle of the night on the city streets
[00:49.28]The only thing we got left is the beat
[00:51.28]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[00:54.01]All we got left is the beat huh give it to me
[00:56.65]All we got left is the beat the beat yo
[00:58.67]All we got left is the beat uh
[01:01.65]Who brings guns into the USA
[01:03.85]And then makes sure that they come around the way
[01:06.44]Gain the points until the whole race traps
[01:08.86]And teach up my woman
[01:10.09]That she should call up the cops
[01:11.52]The projects are hell wait a minute
[01:14.16]There's nothin' we do but ride on top of an elevator
[01:17.15]Say the clubs I can't get a job
[01:18.89]Mouth to feed somebody's gettin' robbed
[01:21.89]I ain't worked but I ain't workin' for crumbs
[01:23.87]You ever seen a man-shelter
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[01:25.39]Check out the bombs
[01:26.94]Brother of pain their whole lives are over
[01:29.10]They spent every dime tryin' not to be sober
[01:31.84]And all the ladies got bags of clothes
[01:33.88]They'll be your long lost momma
[01:35.44]One never knows
[01:36.06]The streets are like a nightmare
[01:38.76]While the presidents secretary is
[01:40.80]Chillin' in his leather chair
[01:41.87]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[01:44.04]All we got left is the beat give it to me
[01:46.80]All we got left is the beat the beat yo
[01:49.18]All we got left is the beat uh
[01:51.68]Lemon to a lime lime to a lemon
[01:53.89]When you need a toga-black hire black linen
[01:56.52]Your rippers' man applause when he can't get a job
[01:59.19]He gets up all of his family and feels like a slob
[02:01.53]The black women don't understand
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[02:04.01]Cause they don't realize what it is to be a black man
[02:07.09]In the mornin' a brother feels like a jerk
[02:09.43]Seein' black women and white men go to work
[02:12.10]So all women fear the brothers ain't real
[02:14.34]Cause they won't give us no jobs that's the real deal
[02:16.90]Hold my hand while I get it all together
[02:19.17]They don't deserve me at times of bad weather
[02:21.74]Cause I'ma make it out the concrete walls
[02:24.34]And there's another way besides basketball
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[02:27.00]Let me go let me do what I do
[02:29.11]I'm red black and green then red white and blue
[02:31.83]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[02:34.36]All we got left is the beat give it to me
[02:36.84]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[02:39.28]All we got left is the beat uh give it to me
[02:42.00]Ridin' in the street you can feel the city heat
[02:44.05]A little bit of grass and a whole lot of concrete
[02:46.94]Creepin' - I'm standin' on the corner
[02:49.34]And you can get robbed if you wanna
[02:52.48]Paybacks a mother on the street
[02:54.28]You're seein' gold teeth ya hearin' funky beats
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[02:57.78]Brothers ride by real slow
[02:59.37]You get leary when they got tinted windows
[03:02.11]Sittin' on the steps with a blunt
[03:04.32]I'm drinkin' Valentine I wasn't raised up front
[03:06.90]My Aunt Ellie always talked about God
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[03:09.96]Tell me you never cried cause its so hard
[03:12.24]Government got a hell of a plan
[03:14.18]But word is born they ain't destroyin' this black man
[03:17.09]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[03:19.50]All we got left is the beat give it to me
[03:21.98]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[03:24.39]All we got left is the beat uh give it to me
[03:27.08]All we got left is the beat is the beat yo
[03:29.45]All we got left is the beat huh give it to me
[03:32.05]All we got left is the beat the beat yo
[03:34.41]All we got left is the beat uh give it to me