Edo. G, Pete Rock, Jaysaun - Pay The Price lyrics

Yeah, Jaysaun, Edo

Young youth, attitude like he's gun-proof
Got a slight taste of the game
Bit it with one tooth
Thirst unquenchable for the finer things
Blitz like 49ers, chrome 9 it sings
Baritone or soprano, he stops, reload ammo
Action shifts
Blow a tunnel right through your flannel
Just another urban vandal, too hot to handle
Who crack your skull like a shell
Now your brain's scrambled
Nigga I'm warnin ya, family be mournin ya
You see it in my cornea
Death's gon' be warmin ya over
Your ghost elevate, your soul levitate
For all the right choices
Your mind better meditate
So put the gun down, or get gunned down
Frightened in the headlights
Waitin to get run down
The beat's courtesy of Pete Rock
Worldwide, leavin every hood and borough
In a deep shock

If this the way you live your life
Then, who am I to give advice
In, blood money and the drugs enticing
But sometimes you gotta pay the price, man
If this the way you live your life
Then, who am I to give advice
In, blood money and the drugs enticing
But sometimes you gotta pay the price, man

Young chicken, time bomb tickin
Fruit ripe for pickin
She live her life different
Little cute-ass dime
See I saw her the last time
Doin a show, like halftime
Perform the latest, to pasttime
In these fast times
In a pitch black room, like a cast iron
To the end like my last line
She could do it cause her ass prime
But not a lifetime it's the cash climb
Life of a stripper's grind
Everybody in the world out to
Make the quickest dime
Her moms used to hold picket signs
She in the sickest, slime
That's why it's hard for me
To kick this rhyme
She had to get it while it's hot
She wasn't that smart, they two worlds apart
Two girls that fought
Her moms with her effort lays
But in the end
They both went they separate ways

Young victim, media depict 'em
As a suspect, get your gut checked
Virgin in the game, never touched yet
What's next?
Get a little shot, now you into rough sex
But you can't run from living
Said you done with prison cause
The streets is unforgiving
Neighborhood full of red ribbons
Cause you came up missing
Find your body with your bloody linen

Yeah, we never did like you, the rifle'll
Stifle your life duke
And touch more kids than Michael
Everybody's a killer like Psycho
So don't get your face erased like a typo
The cycle rotates and repeats
In the streets
Can't nothin stop these wolves from eatin
You in the presence of some carnivores
And ain't no use in fightin us gnarlin yours

But sometimes you gotta pay the price, man
But sometimes you gotta pay the price, man