Mobb Deep - Up North Trip lyrics

It all began on the street
To the back of a blue police vehicle
Next come the bookings
The way things is looking
It's Friday, you in for a long stay
Getting shackled on the bus
First thing come Monday
Hoping in your mind you'll
Be released one day but knowing
Home is a place you're not
Going for a long while
Now you're up on the Isle
And the position that you in
Got you refusing to smile
But keep in mind, there's a brighter day
After your time spent
Used to be wild, but locked up
You can't get bent
Thought you could hack it
Now you're requesting PC
You're fragile, it ain't hard to see


Niggas like that don't associate with me
I'd rather, get busy to the third degree
'Cause the war in
Population's on infinitely
If this was the street
My razor would be a MAC demon
Hit you up, leave your whole face screaming
What you in for kid - busting nuts?
Cats heard of me in street
Stories caught inside this trap
Who are you to look at me
With your eyes like that?
Wisen up, young blood
Before you make things escalate
And I would hate to set
Your crooked ass straight

Make your moves at night
Pack your heat in this war zone
Niggas is trife
Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
Make one false move and it's a up north trip
Living the high life
Make your moves at night
Pack your heat in this war zone
Niggas is trife
Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
Make one false move and it's a up north trip

You tried to dip, duck, but still got bucked
You talk too much shit
You shoulda kept your mouth shut
All that gossip, motherfucker
Don't you know my Glock kicks
Hollow tips, to your body, mad toxic
I fade you, blow you with a rusty-ass razor
Did you a favor
Tried to wet you but I graze you
Pop goes the Glock when there's
Beef on the block chill for a while
Make them think the beef stop
Then I creep like a thief in the night
It's only right
Ain't no turning back, it's on tonight
And if I get caught, then my ass is up north
Straight on a course for upstate New York
Stressed, smoking back to back cigarettes
It popped off, one point in the mess hall
But to avoid that
From head-to-toe dipped in all black
Hit them niggas where they
Pump they cracks at
Havoc, with the murder master plan
Keep my nine up to par so my shit won't jam
God forbid if my shit do, run behind a tree
Fix my shit then hit you slugs in your body
Mainly in your brain tissue
Ditch from the scene, get
Ghost, stash the pistol, so simple
Then, watch my back, lay up and relax
Roll a sack, K-A black, find a shorty to tap

Living the high life
Make your moves at night
Pack your heat in this war zone
Niggas is trife
Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
Make one false move and it's a up north trip
Living the high life
Make your moves at night
Pack your heat in this war zone
Niggas is trife
Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
Make one false move and it's a up north trip

I got the power, combine wit' the powder
And water it oughta, drop in a half and hour
In the, form of oil, watch the cocaine boil
Keep my eye on it so the shit won't spoil
Then I pause and ask God why
Did he put me on this Earth
Just so I could die
I sit back and build on all
The things I did wrong
Why I'm still breathing
And all my friends gone
I try not to dwell on the subject for a while
'Cause I might get stuck
In this corrupt lifestyle but my
Heart pumps foul blood through my arteries
And I can't turn it back, it's a part of me
Too late for crying
I'm a grown man struggling
To reach the next level of life
Without fumbling down or folding
I got no shoulder to lean on but my own
All alone in this danger zone
Time wait's for no man
The streets grow worse
Fuck the whole world, kid
My money comes first
'Cause I'm out for the gusto
And trust nobody
If you're not family, then you die by me
'Cause niggas will have you locked up
The snitch be your man
Giving police the run down on your plans
But never going down like that
So I, shut my mouth and hold my words back
Illegal business, forever mines
Fuck paying taxes the last kid that shitted
And gave police access
To my blueprints, used names as evidence
Skipped town and I haven't seen
The snitch nigga ever since
The moral of the story is easy to figure out
A lesson that you can't live without

Living the high life
Make your moves at night
Pack your heat in this war zone
Niggas is trife
Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
Make one false move and it's a up north trip
Living the high life
Make your moves at night
Pack your heat in this war zone
Niggas is trife
Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
Make one false move and it's a up north trip