(feat. Carlton Fisk, Chico Debango)



[Intro: Carlton Fisk]

Carlton Fisk, I.N.S., we got Chico

Staten's back... the monster, come on

House Gang... House Gang... now we gat y'all

Check it...



[Chorus: Chico DeBarge]

You abandoned me, y'all don't live here anymore...

Just a vacancy, y'all don't live here anymore...



[Carlton Fisk:]

The scene open, see my mother at a table, focused

A belt wrapped around her arm, veins bulging

A bottle top, a little cotton, intervene this needle dirty bopping

Hands swollen, psalms untoppable

Little kid I watch the nod, know the rules

Never talk to a teacher in school

You might think that this environment's cruel

Fuck it, this what I decided to do

Started stealing anything I could move

Now I'm thirteen, with something to prove

Buddha hit me with a twenty-two

That started my career with a tool

Nothing to it, get up on 'em, tell 'em "pass it all"

Since you short, if you move, blast it off

Like a rocket, if he falls, dig his pockets and run

And if you get caught, just rep where you from, little nigga

I know what's it like out there, you strugglin' and you grinding, let's go



[Chorus]



[Inspectah Deck:]

Thug paradise, drugs, gats and knives, life sacrifice

Nickel dime grind, catch a full clip, half price

Kings tumble in time, it's like a jungle sometimes

I play it humble, gotta rumble sometimes

Big timers taking numbers with nines, with the bundles of dimes

You wind up, with a gun to your spine

And the coppers never solve the case

Them gorillas in the mist, war, and get lost they hard to trace

Man this cold world'll scar ya fate, so I stay awake

Late night with cigars, and jars of haze

Half my comrades dead or in jail, most said I would fail

I'm still alive, getting checks in the mail

Still cowards wanna force my hand, eating off my hand

Boiling water, never lost a gram

Cash Rules, I'm pulling off the scam, catch the bossman

Sure hand, on the dice, in the game of life, life



[Chorus]



[Hook: Chico DeBarge]

You don't know... what it cost to pay that ride

You don't know... what you lost til it pass you by

You don't know baby, that you could, til time is fading you by

And you don't miss, all that's in your way, til you circle or try



[Chorus: to fade]