Mobb Deep - Take it In Blood lyrics

I'm yawning while I wake up
To the early morning gunfire
Another day another scar to acquire
Jumped out my bed, tried to break my alarm
Took a shower
And then I strapped on my firearm
Grabbed my Pelle Pelle cause I wanna
Look fly when I die
But it ain't my turn to say goodbye
How do I know? Some people call it instinct
I like to call it my luck, who gives a fuck
I'm stuck
In this environment and can't depart from it
And if I try I always end
Up back where I started
Plan A, square 1, there's no escapin'
So I've come to realize my truth
Tryna live my full life before
My time is through clocks tickin'
So I don't got no time for you
As I head outside
Amongst the rest of the animals
Is where I feel relaxed and safe
And I can stand still
It's sorta like a family bond
We gather up all the soldiers
And form into an invincible
Swarm of kids, now it's on again
Drinking straight from the bottle warm
Gin dripping down my chin
For the crippled children
You can't win against 25
Niggas bent up with mac 10 semi-automatics
Fully-addicted crime addicts
So long as there is cash involved
I gotta have it
There's many different levels to
The criminal mind
Either you in it for the money
Or you wasting your time

My destiny will be the death of me
Forever loving my peoples
Hustling, It's only right
Nigga we struggling to survive
It's only crime that provides for me
So I resort to puffing dimes and
Dreaming of pushing a ride
Negative thoughts fill my brain but
It's the projects to blame
Niggas forever getting loot while standing
Out in the rain so when the sun shine
Nigga will be writing a rhyme
And if a nigga owing
Blood is how I'm taking mine
As I climb the ladder, of success with TEC's
Though I rather not have to
Watch my back get threat
But it's like that, so I adjust
Fuck getting touched your man wasn't aware
That's why that nigga got bucked
I realize open my eyes once
This shit got real
There's mad drama on the Hill
When niggas getting blue steel
I love my niggas for that, we keep it real
Get loot and our identity is Timbs
And army certified suit's most def
My people hold me down whenever in beef
Talking all that bullshit but it's the
Gats that rules the streets
Survival of the fittest
Automatics recommended
Given a life sentence to crime
Until my life is ended

Niggas wanna point guns in my face, so what?
I'm taking mines in blood
Niggas forever talking shit, so what?
I'm taking mines in blood
Try to jam me on pack, so what?
I'm taking mines in blood
Niggas running out their mouth, so what?
I'm taking mines in blood
How we do it, how we do it
We taking ours in blood

This city got me trapped like
An animal with criminal thoughts
I can't seem to turn away
From this unknown force
If only I can lay my hands
On the source of my trouble
And maybe I can heal my scar before it bubble
It's like a plague, and there ain't no cure
We absorb this world's filth
Therefore we're un-pure
My life is like a bad dream
I can't seem to shake
Only my peoples who are
Equal understand or relate
The way we live is never planned
It just happened that way
So until tomorrow I'll just
Be surviving today it's just another man
On this planet living for delf
Pops gone, I had to learn to be a man myself
But I, don't stress that he did his dirt
Now he pays back waiting in
A federal laid back
Pops, times is different and
Things ain't the same
It's worse than ever
To get paid we do whatever
See some rather achieve goals
And be a scholar
I rather get locked like you
Earning a 6-digit dollar
Making the desert bird holler
Doing white collar crimes
But the fed time is hard to swallow
And digest so I protest the pen
I rather die before the jail cell sucks me in
And my peoples we all share the same thinking
We in synch, on the same tempo
Making cowards run petro
Pull out the TEC, automatic metro
My shots chase you 'round corners
Leaving your family a bunch of mourners
And my all-around point as that
If you feel me you're guaranteed
Something you can feel back

Kid, you don't know me
You don't wanna know me
You tried to blow me your
Weak side just showed me
Stepped out my door on 41st Side at 12
Didn't see my crew around so
I got bent for self
I had to jet back upstairs so
I can stash my 9
It was a Friday night had it bad one time
Cause niggas getting bagged on a regular son
D's like "Fuck the drugs
All we want is the guns"
So I proceed with caution
Eyes open whenever walking
Niggas be ass talking then
Convict them of extortion
Hold myself down the only way I know
Niggas pumping packs for free
In debt cause they owe
Street life is like a trial
Ass out if you blow
The maximum is death son you know how that go
Lye got me on point, paranoid for life
That's why I walk the street
With heat especially at night
I represent the North side I
Hold the title with pride and when it's on
I use the infra-red for guide
Aim it at your temple
With no remorse and never sentimental
My crew is cold-hearted from all the
Foul shit we been through
Surviving shootouts
Bullets hitting the fence sparking
Fuck my fingers
With guns niggas I'm marking
Til the blocks darkened
Doing my thing, let my gun clap
It's like that!