Ciaa

The guns go bang, bang

My neighborhood gang bangs

These kids with no name

Seen their families slain, yeah

Guns and cocaine

These lions with gold chains

Hunt they prey

Knowing good and damn well they pray

And you ask me

How could this be?

I will tell you how

After I run these streets

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, yeah

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, uh

I tell you what you wanna know

After I go get what I'm owed

Picking up from the laundromat

New money from my old pack

I got an enterprise citywide

I know my angels workin' overtime

'Cause they tried to kill me, tried to take me down

Drown me in the river, put me in the ground

But I can't stop, no, I won't stop

It ain't in my nature, I keep it in my socks, I'll show 'em

After I run these streets

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, yeah

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, uh

I tell you what you wanna know

After I go get what I'm owed

Another day, another dollar, another cent

Took me a hundred times tryin' before I rose out the cement, yeah

Cleared out my karma, for my sins I repent

A lot of free throws before I came up off the bench

I went at it afraid, had to pitch my own tent

'Cause being broke and poor, man, just wasn't my intent

So no, I can't stop, but I won't stop

It ain't in my nature, I keep it in my socks, I'll show 'em

After I run these streets

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, yeah

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, oh

After I run these streets, uh

I tell you what you wanna know

After I go get what I'm owed