GZA - I Gotcha Back lyrics

I gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts)

I was always taught my do's and don'ts
For do's I did, and for don'ts
I said I won't i'm from Brooklyn
A place where stars are born
Streets are shot up
Apartment buildings are torn
And ripped up, stripped up
Shacked up and backed up
From fiends, cause the bosses on the scene
They got it cracked up
Kids are slinging in my lobby
Little Steve and Bobby getting paid but it's
A life-threatening hobby


Yeah, they still play hide-and-seek
The fiends seek for the crack
And they hide and let the cops peep
Grown folks say they should be
Out on their own
Before the gangs come and blow
Up their mom's home
Because they lifestyle is hectic
So fucking hectic
Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are ejected
My lifestyle was so far from well
Could've wrote a book with a title
"Age 12 and Going Through Hell"
Then I realized the plan
I'm trapped in a deadly video game
With just one man
So I don't only watch my back
I watch my front
Cause it's the niggas who front
They be pulling stunts
Back on the Ave of Livonia
And Bristol with a pistol
Sticking up Pamela and Crystal
You know your town is dangerous
When you see the strangest
Kid come home from doing the
Bid and nothing changes
What is the meaning of CRIME (what?)
Is it Criminals Robbing
Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?
Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard
Trying to solve the puzzles to
Why is life so hard
Then as soon as they reached the playground
Blaow!
Shots ring off and now one of them lay down
It's so hard to escape the gunfire
I wish I could rule it out like an umpire
But it's an everlasting game
And it never cease to exist
Only the players change, so

I gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts) i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts) i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts)
I gotcha back so you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
That be pulling stunts
I gotcha back but you best
To watch your front
It's the niggas who front
That be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts) i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts) i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts) i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas that front
They be pulling stunts i gotcha back
But you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggas who front
(they be pulling stunts)

Your, tech, nique, is, mag-ni-ficent
When cut across the neck
A sound like wailing winter winds is heard
They say i'd always hoped to cut
Someone like that someday to hear that sound
But to have it happen to
My own neck is ridiculous