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[Chorus: Mark B. Mayfield]
I gotta lay down the block, when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
I gotta lay down the block, when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
[Verse 1: Nas]
Yea, Feds feast on street dons, look at their teeth showin`
Salivatin` at the mouth, South to East Orange
Keep pourin` that liquor, but nigga don`t sleep on it
You`ll be givin` up your Jesus piece to your peeps to pawn it
For legal fees in the penal dorm
Screamin` on the horn with `bout thirty years on your conscience
I`m watchin` brothers disappear, it`s appallin`
Some dudes had just only a year of ballin`
Counter-intelligence found a strange evidence (When the block is hot)
Still we behind the wheel with heat on us, hangin` with predicates
Position we placed in caves in, so they got us caged in
Ways spinnin` like Mike Bivens from New Edition aging (I gotta... When the block is hot)
I got families I`m feeding `cause my mans is bleeding
Every five seconds look in all directions
I come through prepared; I give `em a call
I`m close, bring them guns downstairs
[Chorus: Mark B. Mayfield]
I gotta lay down the block, when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
I gotta lay down the block, when the block is hot (hold it down)
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
[Verse 2: Nas]
Uh, uh, it`s beef week, Monday, murder
Two niggaz dead, Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day
Friday, somebody-gotta-die-day
Saturday, put the gat away
Chillin` wit your chick and a bag of haze
Wonderin` how it`s all gon` end and what type of way
`Cause Sunday back to gunplay
Mo` shit start over nothin`
And get finished quick `cause the art of repercussion
Yeah, I seen it, a G` going out indecent (When the block is hot)
Takin` a plea agreement, thinkin` he secret
Escape the crime scene, now you live straight like 9:15
Then one-time intervene (I gotta lay...)
My man ain`t like me sayin` I don`t care if I die
But the SIG Sauer on me now I`m scared to die
You thinkin` the one I send to clap you be a shorty
But he old school, holdin` a .38, he in his forties
[Chorus: Mark B. Mayfield]
I gotta lay down the block, when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
I gotta lay down the block, when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
[Verse 3: Nas]
(I gotta...) Anytime brothers can`t get jobs, then they rob
(When the block is hot) A man rather die than live on his knees and starve
Cops steady askin` your man what happened
First he tell then he stop, like he not really rattin`
Guess he not really in that casket from a sawed-off (When the block is hot)
Listen, peep game from the brain of an all-star
The rain hurt niggaz bones who been shot
Metal pins in their leg, they walk with a limp-hop
The streets lie, (When the block is hot) so you better be cautious
Your man`ll fry you plus, everybody talkin`
A vet, a General, don`t step where I walked in
Make your own path, be a legend in your skin
(Hold down the block, when the block is hot)
Make your own cash, don`t stress what I`m forcin`
Don`t expect more when you put in less work than all them
Queensbridge projects has taught him, and that`s for life
You heard me right, I got the block (When the block is hot)
[Outro: Mark B. Mayfield]
When the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
I gotta use my imagination, to change the situation
I gotta hold down the block, when the block is hot
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