[ti:24 Hrs. To Live] [ar:Mase] [al:Harlem World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]24 Hrs. to Live (feat. The Lox, Black Rob & DMX) - Mase/The Lox/Black Rob/DMX [00:02.42]I want you to ask yourself one question [00:05.57]If you had 24 Hrs to live what would you do [00:11.23]That's some deep sh*t right there a lot of pressure [00:15.06]How would you handle it [00:18.07]Mase what would you do [00:19.71]Yo I'd turn out all the hoes that's heterosexual [00:22.40]Smack conceited niggas right off the pedestal [00:25.14]I'd even look for my dad that I never knew [00:27.67]And show him how I look in my Beretta too [00:30.15]I'd do good sh*t like take kids from the ghetto [00:32.61]Show them what they could have if they never settle [00:35.17]Take every white kid from high class level [00:37.63]Show 'em what Christmas like growin' up in the ghetto [00:40.17]Teach niggas how to spend stack the rest [00:42.46]Give blunts to the niggas under massive stress [00:45.10]Give every bum on the street cash to invest [00:47.50]And hope Harlem will blow up be my last request [00:49.89]Yo yo if I had 24 Hrs to kick the bucket f**k it [00:52.80]I'd probably eat some fried [00:53.89]Chicken and drink a nantucket [00:55.38]Then go get a jar from Branson [00:57.08]And make sure I leave my mother [00:58.66]The money to take care of grandson [01:00.17]Load the three power hop in the Eddie Bauer [01:02.52]And go give all six to that papi that sold me flour [01:04.89]Get a fresh baldy make a few calls [01:07.55]Shop at the mall shoot a lil' ball [01:09.99]Have all of my b**ches [01:11.22]On one telly at the same time [01:13.38]Spread it out on different floors [01:15.18]And I'm gon' play lotto for what [01:17.32]Even though I ain't gon' be [01:18.78]Here tomorrow so what [01:19.72]You know when I was close to the ledge [01:21.45]I'd probably be in the wedge [01:22.59]With this bare Spanish mami playin' 'tween my legs [01:24.86]Then I'm off to get choke and [01:26.33]Smoke one a them dreads [01:27.40]And get that b**ch from '89 [01:28.60]That gave us up to the feds [01:29.95]Thought of momma [01:30.78]Wrote her a note we ain't close [01:32.43]I hate her boyfriend so I put one in his throat [01:34.80]F**k around and sniff an ounce of raw bust the four [01:37.53]Fours pull out my dick and take a piss on the floor [01:39.93]Jump in the whip get them cats I wanted to get [01:42.27]Since the Tavern on the green robbery in eighty-six [01:44.94]Went home took a shower in nice cold water [01:47.36]And spent my last hours with [01:48.92]My son and my daughter [01:50.01]If you had 24 Hrs to live just think [01:52.43]Where would you go [01:53.70]What would you do [01:54.64]Who would you screw [01:55.59]And who would you wanna notify [01:57.56]Or would yo' a** deny that yo' a** about to die [01:59.87]If you had 24 Hrs to live just think [02:02.57]Where would you go [02:03.52]What would you do [02:04.41]Who would you screw [02:05.41]And who would you wanna notify [02:07.13]Or would yo' a** deny that yo' a** about to die [02:09.88]What hey yo if I had 24 ni**a gotta get the raw [02:12.32]Run all them Papi's spot put one in his head at the door [02:14.96]For the times that I paid for 20 an he gave me twelve [02:17.29]The other eight had to be baking soda by itself [02:19.72]So papi f**k you you dead now I'm off to the bank [02:22.51]With those bricks in a bookbag [02:23.71]And a stolen jag I just grabbed [02:25.21]Went in there grabbed [02:26.21]The bank teller with the pretty face [02:27.67]F**k her in the safe and have her take me to my place [02:30.11]We'll make a kid but that's selfish and that'll be bad [02:32.26]For my son to have the same sh*t his pop's just had [02:34.86]And when I'm down to 23 I'm a be strapped with TNT [02:37.47]Run up in City Hall and take the judges with me [02:40.16]If I had 24 Hrs to live I'd probably die on the fifth [02:43.00]Run in the station squeezin' the inf' [02:44.65]I'll be waitin' to get to hell and bust down Satan [02:47.37]Styles' on this sh*t and I got spot vacant [02:49.82]Back to the 24 I make it out the precinct [02:52.52]Shootin' niggas that I hate in they face while they eatin' [02:55.11]I'm on the job robbin' every so-called Don [02:57.24]Give the money to my moms [02:58.70]And tell her that I'm gone [02:59.92]I would school my little brother [03:01.12]That niggas mean him harm [03:02.38]He should learn to tell the future [03:03.78]Without readin' palms [03:04.79]When they come in with the bullets [03:06.17]You prepared with the bomb [03:07.40]So f**k bein' violent get stocks and bonds [03:09.64]24 left until my death [03:11.50]So I'm gon' waste a lot of lives [03:13.14]But I'll cherish every breath [03:14.24]I know exactly where I'm goin' [03:15.42]But I'ma send you there first [03:16.63]And with the sh*t that I'll be doin' [03:18.19]I'ma send you there worse [03:19.18]I've been livin' with a curse [03:20.38]And now it's all about to end [03:21.75]But before I go say hello to my little friend [03:24.26]But I gots to make it right reconcile with my mother [03:26.76]Try to explain to my son tell my girl I love her [03:29.39]C-4 up under the coat snatch up my dog [03:31.87]Turn like three buildings on Wall Street into a fog [03:34.29]Out with a bang you will remember my name [03:37.04]I wanted to live forever but this wasn't fame [03:39.70]If you had 24 Hrs to live just think [03:42.34]Where would you go [03:43.43]What would you do [03:44.32]Who would you screw [03:45.29]And who would you wanna notify [03:47.05]Or would yo' a** deny that yo' a** about to die [03:49.86]If you had 24 Hrs to live just think [03:52.28]Where would you go [03:53.40]What would you do [03:54.39]Who would you screw [03:55.35]And who would you wanna notify [03:57.40]Or would yo' a** deny that yo' a** about to die [03:59.89]If you had 24 Hrs to live just think [04:02.46]Where would you go [04:03.38]What would you do [04:04.25]Who would you screw [04:04.95]And who would you wanna notify [04:07.09]Or would yo' a** deny that yo' a** about to die [04:09.84]If you had 24 Hrs to live just think