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Dame Grease
Dame Grease
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COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Nasir Jones
Nasir Jones
Composer
Damon Blackmon
Damon Blackmon
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
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Dame Grease
Dame Grease
Producer
Rich Nice
Rich Nice
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Rich Travali
Rich Travali
Mixing Engineer
Chris Gehringer
Chris Gehringer
Mastering Engineer
Jason Goldstein
Jason Goldstein
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Lyrics

Uh Uh, speak without thinkin' Speak without speakin', huh Feel without reachin', uh That's what it's about It's about that, inner, inner love, y'know I mean? God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas (I know) And the killers, God love us good niggas (I know) 'Cause on the streets is the hood niggas, uh And I know he feel us, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause he be with us in the prisons And he takes time to listen, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas, uh But he forgive us He who has ears, let him hear And he who has sight, let him see He who has life, let him be See everything goes through change Those who know don't talk And those who talk don't know a thing Men are born soft and turn tough Dead lay a stiffened heart, I've been kissed by God I've been hurt, I've been marked for death, almost ripped apart By the beast, but he missed his mark Alone in the dark my thoughts had sparked up When I saw my body on the floor, from above I watch it all Yo, it came to me, the pain in me Many slain empty skulls where a brain should be It strangely seemed, like it was a dream But the si-rens had never woke me Only reason I'm here now is 'cause God chose me And to me, I'm only just a crook nigga But God love us hood niggas God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas (I know) And the killers, God love us good niggas (I know) 'Cause on the streets is the hood niggas, uh And I know he feel us, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) That's why he with us in the prisons And he takes time to listen, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas, uh But he forgive us Day by day, by day, I sit back and pray My thugs get packed away, in a maxi-cage They pass away, they went off the casket way My gats will spray, but that won't bring 'em back today So long my crimes now gone for eternity The team we got left on the set, now turn to me Can't speak, tears in my eyes, revenge in my mind I ride past the church where they got his body and find They takin' him to the hearse to put his body in dirt That's it, pay my respects, wipe my tears with my shirt Now it's time to do work, out of love and retribution As loyalty, he would die for me, no excuses Loadin' clips up, countin' bullets carefully For self, though it feels like, he was there for me Saw the enemy, I ate him, saw Jakes behind me They ain't knock me, it's obvious that God's watchin' me God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas (I know) And the killers, God love us good niggas (I know) 'Cause on the streets is the hood niggas, uh And I know he feel us, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause he be with us in the prisons And he takes time to listen, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas, uh But he forgive us Jealousy in the hood, felonies in the hood Thugs with guns become celebrities in the hood Yo, it's beef in the hood, smoke trees in the hood Little girls have seeds by OGs in the hood It's food in the hood, it's drugs in the hood You can choose if you would, coke to sniff Dope to ooze in your blood, parolees Ex-cons live in the hood, it's jobs in the hood You can starve in the hood Your best friends'll fuck your baby moms in the hood But it's good in the hood, I was raised in the hood Was taught how to walk and duck strays in the hood I stays in the hood, got my ways from the hood Learned to play ball go to the NBA, in the hood There's AIDS (uh), in the hood (what?) Our lives are the worst, on top of that, we broke That's the main reason why God, love us the most God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas (I know) And the killers, God love us good niggas (I know) 'Cause on the streets is the hood niggas, uh And I know he feel us, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause he be with us in the prisons And he takes time to listen, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas, uh But he forgive us God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas (I know) And the killers, God love us good niggas (I know) 'Cause on the streets is the hood niggas, uh And I know he feel us, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause he be with us in the prisons And he takes time to listen, uh God love us hood niggas (I know) 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggas But he forgive us, uh
Writer(s): Damon J. Blackman, Nasir Jones Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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