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[ti:Grown Man Business]
[ar:Mos Def]
[al:The New Danger]
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[00:00.000]Grown Man Business (Album Version|Edited) - Mos Def
[00:01.570]Hear Me See Me
[00:02.320]Welcome to Soundview Projects
[00:03.070]Bronx New York 10473
[00:08.239]Intersection action ribs touching
[00:10.569]New gutter smacks replacing the whole Dutchman
[00:12.909]Loose mamis ******* they definite land mines
[00:15.609]Dudes with no right hustle throwing gang signs
[00:18.229]Empty in the webbings broke and underpaid
[00:20.869]Fighting federal cases with legal aids
[00:23.559]The unlit stage tonight performing lime desires to eat
[00:26.969]Can get you in a 8 by 5 the corner's younger
[00:29.789]I smell feel touch and taste they hunger
[00:31.669]Next in line to rep these street signs to they blunder
[00:34.239]Under wiping tears from his eyes facing the felony
[00:36.599]These niggaz wanna be Pistol Pete -without the penalty
[00:38.869]His last words promise me this much in death
[00:41.708]Don't my boy live to retrace my steps
[00:44.287]Minne- stay safe move quiet and get it
[00:47.457]If you encounter opposition get a inch from they face with It
[00:49.987]Later amigo digest the day to end discreetly
[00:52.886]Sex money and boss
[00:54.086]My ties to hear me see me
[00:55.526]True villain
[00:55.906]Face covered driving gloves
[00:57.876]Commit by my lonely when push comes to shove
[01:00.596]They say that grown men lay on they prey
[01:02.636]Took shorts in the street
[01:03.686]Came back and made up for that with that white sheet
[01:05.876]Revenge is best served cold
[01:06.836]Get it the same way you give it
[01:08.596]This ain't fear I just need to get away with it
[01:11.126]Son stop over here( ) you looking at me like I'm lame
[01:13.676]But I'm looking at y'all like y'all call this the ** game
[01:16.306]Grand child hosing sims
[01:17.776]Put the h****n in queens
[01:19.136]Put Pops Freeman on in the early seventies
[01:21.615]I sat in rooms with money machines
[01:23.575]***** sitting 3 feet off of the floor
[01:25.685]Cover the smell of the raw
[01:27.015]Chest moves like bars scale my connects untimely
[01:29.415]King Henry from 12th street flooded the Bronx in the 90's
[01:32.305]03 scene MVP and one Accord
[01:35.705]Boss makes decision paper wins awards
[01:38.485]See Me Hear Me
[01:40.175]Welcome to Brooklyn New York City 11206
[01:42.765]Roosevelt Projects wild rose water the plant
[01:45.464]Son you know what it is
[01:46.674]From the moment that you come over the bridge
[01:48.514]And if you don't ride with me
[01:49.704]I'm gonna show you some ****
[01:50.964]Ima show you where my niggaz stay sure on the mix
[01:53.494]Ima show you where the pain and the poetry is
[01:55.994]Ghetto young'ns spend a lot of time alone in the crib
[01:58.894]BET on the screen walls and posters of BIG
[02:01.574]Hustlers getting dough sitting low on the 6
[02:04.244]Blazing up the ambro glow over they wrist
[02:06.724]Hop in the game knowing the risk
[02:08.704]Still down to load up they clip
[02:10.704]Gamblers with hopes of rolling the trip
[02:12.124]But when you hear head crack there ain't no rolling again
[02:14.884]Snatch the dice and everything you want is going it in
[02:17.414]This how it happens good people bad habits diabetics crack addicts
[02:21.582]Asthmatics
[02:23.112]Searching for the truth leaping through the holy tablet
[02:25.552]The bible the Q uran or the ten crack commandments
[02:28.512]Speak on it God What's today's mathematics
[02:31.061]The five day forecast the Dow Jones average
[02:33.621]The price of beer cigarettes bread milk and pampers
[02:36.371]Life is a test and we all got the answer
[02:39.081]The streets keep calling it's hard not answer
[02:41.461]And on my government-my attribute-my all
[02:44.150]So it's only natural I holla black and respond
[02:46.650]Brooklyn stand up and make 'em all sit down
[02:49.980]We do not **** around
[02:54.029]That's what it is (All Day)
[02:59.759]That's what is Niggaz (Official Official)
[03:04.669]That's how it is Niggaz
[03:07.108]BX BK live all day
[03:10.648]Get with it
[03:15.488]Grown Man Business