Dirty Game - Cormega.mp3

[00:00.00]Dirty Game -Cormega
[00:04.911]Know what I'm sayin'Premo'
[00:08.471]Tell these niggas about my life know what I mean
[00:13.721]It's been a crazy'crazy journey for me'know what I mean
[00:21.530]I spend my days in a steel cage
[00:23.430]Where brothers feel rage
[00:24.570]And get real with razor blades
[00:26.449]In I'll ways so when my cell close
[00:28.489]My brain cells expose
[00:29.819]And my pen excels to a part of hell froze
[00:32.949]Inside of me was tellin'me to stay out
[00:35.27]Reality was tellin'me that if I find a way out
[00:37.697]I had to stay out
[00:38.827]Plans I had to lay out
[00:40.127]In order to elevate from my identity
[00:42.657]Mentally accelerate
[00:43.907]I seen a lot of men break down
[00:45.517]Being an inmate
[00:46.587]Now I realize I couldn't make the same mistakes
[00:49.687]It was real being concealed in steel gates
[00:52.27]Where brothers who feel hate against a another race
[00:55.86]Which only indicates a snake mentality
[00:58.666]These are my days of reality
[01:00.755]The streets is a dirty game
[01:02.515]My heart's still home in the streets
[01:05.934]It's a damn shame
[01:07.104]The streets is a dirty game
[01:08.564]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[01:11.363]It's a damn shame
[01:12.543]The streets is a dirty game
[01:13.733]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin'
[01:16.702]It's a damn shame
[01:17.742]The streets is a dirty game
[01:19.422]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[01:22.331]It's a damn shame
[01:23.391]The streets is a dirty game
[01:24.871]My heart's still home in the streets
[01:26.971]Often I think of my people the board denied they freedom'a mirage
[01:30.931]Disappearing before our eyes
[01:32.319]We were born to strife
[01:33.689]Now living in courts decide
[01:35.249]Missing their children we can feel it when our mommas cry
[01:37.949]We was hustlin'but would the jury find me guilty
[01:40.439]They seen us strugglin'
[01:41.649]Doing what we have to do to ease the sufferin'
[01:43.889]We know it's wrong but so was havin'us freezin'
[01:46.419]Left the stove on wearing our sneakers until the soles are gone
[01:50.76]We constantly holdin'on'being broke
[01:52.823]And hopin'our phone is our only escape
[01:54.852]And when our favorite TV shows is on shots ringin'echo
[01:58.32]In the ear before the cops came kids was everywhere
[02:01.41]And women cryin'niggas going to jail
[02:02.750]A mothers eyes fill with tears as she nears
[02:04.909]Realizing he's surviving she exhales like Angela Bassett
[02:08.279]I'm a poet amongst slums'crimes'and crack addicts
[02:11.378]It's a damn shame
[02:12.468]The streets is a dirty game
[02:13.988]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[02:16.717]It's a damn shame
[02:17.927]The streets is a dirty game
[02:19.276]My heart's still home in the streets they still callin'
[02:22.76]It's a damn shame
[02:23.396]The streets is a dirty game
[02:24.936]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[02:27.465]It's a damn shame
[02:28.835]The streets is a dirty game
[02:30.294]My heart's still home in the streets
[02:32.04]I live a lonely existence
[02:33.544]Lately I've become a mathematician
[02:35.523]As I divide my friends with phony niggas I confide in God
[02:38.973]As for sins may he forgive 'em
[02:40.473]If you have dreams they can be achieved never give up
[02:43.103]Look at me once a convicted felon
[02:45.143]Once addicted to sellin'
[02:46.483]The substance which corrupted many men in my era
[02:49.03]I stood in awe at the dope fiends
[02:50.713]Drove by those caught in the coke game
[02:52.603]Some proper some locked up some sold claim
[02:54.823]The main team wanted the shine
[02:56.413]Streets so alive I felt the air breathe
[02:58.143]Not only did I misplace time
[02:59.951]I could remember as an inmate
[03:01.541]At midstate I stayed in the law library
[03:03.901]Some chose to lift weight'fine
[03:05.381]As if they content with they time
[03:07.401]They strip us at the visit
[03:08.731]Limit our education
[03:09.791]Ridicule us niggas
[03:11.21]Modern enslavement
[03:12.10]Even though I'm out of the cages
[03:13.640]I'm the voice of the soldier in the yard with the banger
[03:16.789]It's a damn shame
[03:17.809]The streets is a dirty game
[03:19.369]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[03:22.179]It's a damn shame
[03:23.279]The streets is a dirty game
[03:24.828]My heart's still home in the streets
[03:27.587]It's a damn shame
[03:28.857]The streets is a dirty game
[03:30.287]But niggas stay strapped in the hood
[03:33.66]It's a damn shame
[03:34.296]The streets is a dirty game
[03:35.776]My heart's still home in the streets