E-40, Stresmatic, J Banks - Off the Block lyrics

It's hard times struggling
Trynna get by, trynna get by, trynna get by

It don't stop always runnin' from the cops
Pray at night, in the day they sell rocks
Gotta make it out, before we get popped
It's ugly trynna make it off the block

Crystal my religion
I'm tryn not to go to prison
Watch out? it's murky, shoot with precision
My vision never missing
Winchester rifle ammunition
These double deuce thirds will
Go through your ligaments
We created a sequel despite our
Skin and our pigment
One day I hope to become legitimate
That's the thought process of a
Young hustler about his money
Far from a dumby smart enough
To run with big company
If i was put in position the
End results would be lucrative
No more life on the rough
Livin life as a fugitive
Unregistered gun and marijuana smoke
In my lungs to decrease the stress
Got a vest and some olive
Oil that the pastor blessed
Then I take out the bottle, put
It on my head and chest
To protect me from death
It's gruesome out here in this
Spooky ugly and murky they dirty out here
They dusty scummy and certainly thirsty

It don't stop always runnin' from the cops
Pray at night, in the day they sell rocks
Gotta make it out, before we get popped
It's ugly trynna make it off the block

Second verse you ain't no better than me
My sins ain't no worse than yours
Only father thy god can judge me
I heard somebody say i'm sick
Of they urban gear
The dreads and the saggy pants
I had it up to here
You said "why yall show your drawers
And wear em down to here"?
I said " why yall show your balls
And wear em way up there"?
Contradictions and criticisms we trapped
In the system
There's not a lot of schools but
There's a lot of prisons
My big homie going through it man
Just like me and you hopin' and wishin' for
A financial breakthrough
Comin' from where i'm comin' from you gotta
Be street smart and not dumb
Put your hands up don't run
Cops will shoot you with they gun
Consequences, everyone makes mistakes
The difference btween today and tomorrow
Is your faith it's gruesome out here in this
Spooky ugly and murky they dirty out here
They dusty scummy and certainly thirsty

It don't stop always runnin' from the cops
Pray at night, in the day they sell rocks
Gotta make it out, before we get popped
It's ugly trynna make it off the block

Third one tryna make it off the block
Triangular markers and yellow tape
Bodies outlined in chalk
We be funkin' non stop
Warrin and beefin, tryna take off a top
We stressin depressin
Nobody to answer our questions
The government treat us like peasants
Can't get a job nor reference
He really good people back in the day easy
Had some scrill now he go to jail on purpose
Just to get a decent meal
Stop chasin his first high
He can get some get back but he strung out
Got that monkey on his back UGHHHHHHHHH
I see it all the time, What you see?
The people that help you the most be
The ones you give the hardest time
Ain't that some backwards ass
Shit? yeah it is
Act like you owe him somethin
And you don't owe him shit
It's gruesome out here in this
Spooky ugly and murky they dirty out here
They dusty scummy and certainly thirsty

It don't stop always runnin from the cops
Pray at night, in the day they sell rocks
Gotta make it out, before we get popped
It's ugly tryna make it off the block