Ghostface Killah, AZ, Tre Williams, Kool G Rap - The Battlefield lyrics
AZ [Anthony Cruz]
[Ghostface Killah, AZ, Tre Williams, Kool G Rap - The Battlefield lyrics]
Ayo, I’m back after nine years
That’s 36 seasons
Shit is changed up for all types of reasons
Staten Island ain’t the same, shit is lame
No familiar faces son, I’m dodging the game
I want a clean slate
But these cops stay screwin’
Snatching me up off the block
What am I doin’? Oh, it’s officer Dingle and
His sidekick Berry
Driving me around the hood so I could worry
See how fucked up it is
There’s crackheads on every corner
Kids in the schoolyard smoking marijuana
I ain’t feeling it
This ain’t the way I left these blocks
And my name’s faded out like
Some old damn socks i want respect
These streets was my playground once
I was the Mack across 110th on these stunts
Not once would a nigga test me or gets zesty
I would walk down the street and sneeze
They all blessed me
Been on the battlefield for a long, long time
I can see life closing in on
This old body of mine
Yeah, homie, I’m the kingpin called Future
Make a killin’ in these
Buildings in the millions
Got ‘em feeling like Brewster
Shit hot as Fallujah, kids grown now
They cock Rugers welcome back to the sewers
Where new whips maneuver
No kids playing, no safe and sound havens
There’s tre pound cases
On the playground pavement
No more dudes with 22’s
In their sneaker soles
Kids tote shit that leave your body
With a heap of holes
I’m that neighborhood blizzard
Flooding these streets with snow
Heavy iron on the ready
My shit’ll crease your clothes
Keep a flock of sweetest hoes, yeah
I sleeps with those
Little slum young Keyshia Coles
With cheaper clothes
Undercovers all around the gutter
They creepin’ low i stays ahead, kid
I toss bread like pizza dough
I keep the tef' around my
Torso with the piece below
That bulldog short nose, G be
At peace w, ith those, you know?
Been on the battlefield for a long, long time
I can see life closing in on
This old body of mine
Mama Bear was a church woman
Pop’s skated off
I was impaired, an introverted youngin’
A lot changed my course
From nowhere to my first onion then them cops
Came across Flashed the badge, took my stash
Told my little ass get lost
Threw me off when my grind
Was prime time then
You could step on and stretch mine’s
To a nine times ten i was gone
Remembering though that fine line’s thin
So I studied that chessboard and
We were all blind men
Dealers ran the streets, but the D’s ran them
I was a killer underneath
But needed expansion
Something to constitute being high in a coupe
The cries from my youth so
I applied for the suit
Salute to the enforcer, call me officer now
Supporter of paraphernalia, I toss it around
The link to the cartel, costs is down
It’s that Denzel in training day shit
Caution my grounds
Been on the battlefield for a long, long time
I can see life closing in on
This old body of mine
That’s 36 seasons
Shit is changed up for all types of reasons
Staten Island ain’t the same, shit is lame
No familiar faces son, I’m dodging the game
I want a clean slate
But these cops stay screwin’
Snatching me up off the block
What am I doin’? Oh, it’s officer Dingle and
His sidekick Berry
Driving me around the hood so I could worry
See how fucked up it is
There’s crackheads on every corner
Kids in the schoolyard smoking marijuana
I ain’t feeling it
This ain’t the way I left these blocks
And my name’s faded out like
Some old damn socks i want respect
These streets was my playground once
I was the Mack across 110th on these stunts
Not once would a nigga test me or gets zesty
I would walk down the street and sneeze
They all blessed me
Been on the battlefield for a long, long time
I can see life closing in on
This old body of mine
Yeah, homie, I’m the kingpin called Future
Make a killin’ in these
Buildings in the millions
Got ‘em feeling like Brewster
Shit hot as Fallujah, kids grown now
They cock Rugers welcome back to the sewers
Where new whips maneuver
No kids playing, no safe and sound havens
There’s tre pound cases
On the playground pavement
No more dudes with 22’s
In their sneaker soles
Kids tote shit that leave your body
With a heap of holes
I’m that neighborhood blizzard
Flooding these streets with snow
Heavy iron on the ready
My shit’ll crease your clothes
Keep a flock of sweetest hoes, yeah
I sleeps with those
Little slum young Keyshia Coles
With cheaper clothes
Undercovers all around the gutter
They creepin’ low i stays ahead, kid
I toss bread like pizza dough
I keep the tef' around my
Torso with the piece below
That bulldog short nose, G be
At peace w, ith those, you know?
Been on the battlefield for a long, long time
I can see life closing in on
This old body of mine
Mama Bear was a church woman
Pop’s skated off
I was impaired, an introverted youngin’
A lot changed my course
From nowhere to my first onion then them cops
Came across Flashed the badge, took my stash
Told my little ass get lost
Threw me off when my grind
Was prime time then
You could step on and stretch mine’s
To a nine times ten i was gone
Remembering though that fine line’s thin
So I studied that chessboard and
We were all blind men
Dealers ran the streets, but the D’s ran them
I was a killer underneath
But needed expansion
Something to constitute being high in a coupe
The cries from my youth so
I applied for the suit
Salute to the enforcer, call me officer now
Supporter of paraphernalia, I toss it around
The link to the cartel, costs is down
It’s that Denzel in training day shit
Caution my grounds
Been on the battlefield for a long, long time
I can see life closing in on
This old body of mine