Gang Starr, Krumb Snatcha - Put Up Or Shut Up(2003)

[00:01.75] (Feat. Krumbsnatcha)
[00:05.26] (Premier scratch: "This mic in my hand, I'm rulin!")
[00:07.50] (Verse One: Guru)
[00:09.17] Stupid, you know it's time to sit and think, before we hit the brink
[00:12.63] Lockerroom, at a prize fight, before he hit the ring
[00:14.80] Like when I tell these corporate leeches they can't get a thing
[00:17.97] Or when I tell relentless rappers they had better sing
[00:19.85] The position that anyone holds could be up to grabs
[00:22.62] I'm waitin up the ave to see if anyone folds
[00:24.90] Since I was twenty-one years old and legal
[00:27.05] I knew the difference between gimmicky gangsters and powerful people
[00:30.31] I'm the reason, why the game is flipped
[00:32.77] I'm the reason, why your aim is missed
[00:35.31] I'm the reason why you're mad I only sprained my wrist
[00:37.76] The reason my mindframe is trained in this
[00:40.48] You like gunfire? Better acquire the taste
[00:43.09] Cuz youf walk aroun' with full pounds by dem waist
[00:45.37] Deface property, they be laced properly
[00:48.20] Rules are rules, fools are fools, I react logically
[00:50.73] Ain't no way, so come, make my day
[00:53.11] Like Tom Hanks I earn long bank and +Cast+ you +Away+
[00:56.11] (Premier scratching)
[00:56.78] "This mic in my hand, I'm rulin!"
[00:58.40] "I repeat, this is not a question"
[01:00.75] (Chorus: Guru) + (Krumbsnatcha)
[01:01.15] Oh you brag about the ki's you flipped and who you done up
[01:03.55] Nigga whattup? (Put up or shut up!)
[01:06.05] Poppin shit about the chicks and the whips you got
[01:08.38] You think you hot? (Uh-uh, man - you put up or shut up!)
[01:11.02] Always talkin bout your dough and your wealth and fame
[01:13.42] Youse a lame (Get out of here - put up or shut up!)
[01:16.33] You got hot beats and kids that can spit mad fire?
[01:18.38] Youse a liar! (That's whack - put up or shut up!)
[01:21.23] (Premier sample: "This mic in my hand, I'm rulin!")
[01:24.90] (Verse Two: Guru)
[01:25.92] Aiyyo I've seen the toughest of tough guys, the roughest of guys
[01:28.53] Get reduced of their juice against the wall like small fries
[01:31.58] All rise, it's time to do the damn thing
[01:34.17] I'm all wise, my mind exercise like handsprings
[01:36.65] Crazy degrees of difficulties
[01:39.09] Remain mackin chicks, O.G. shit, the ten prixs(?)
[01:42.13] Please, you know my peoples want a lot, the corner's hot
[01:45.07] We gettin love on y'all block
[01:46.86] And that's gangsta, but a lot of shit ain't
[01:49.05] Believe me it ain't easy like you sleazy niggaz think
[01:51.73] Uneasy niggaz blink, when I step to the stage
[01:53.65] And don't flinch, don't move a inch, I'm bout to empty the gauge
[01:57.04] I've witnessed the bad shit, sickness and sadness
[01:59.60] Always dreamed about what I would do, if I had shit
[02:02.56] Drop jewels infinite for the blind deaf and dumb
[02:04.97] Down with M.O.P. and Bumpy plus I just left Krumb
[02:06.81] (Verse Three: Krumbsnatcha)
[02:07.48] But I'm back. ha, fresh out of the max
[02:10.35] And I'm gettin at you cats
[02:12.11] Aiyyo popped out the beast, met The Ownerz with the lease
[02:14.84] Soldifyin contracts over dope beats
[02:17.51] Learned a whole lot up in these streets
[02:19.77] Like when to talk, when to spark, and when not to speak
[02:22.49] I do the one before a gun come out
[02:25.29] Plus y'all don't really wanna see Krumb dumb out
[02:27.59] A ghetto doctrine to watch every pistol pop
[02:30.52] And then while you watchin examine all options
[02:33.03] Young bodies in the coffin more often
[02:35.38] It stay the same from Brooklyn to Boston
[02:38.25] Every interstate, more youth with the inner hate
[02:40.84] Deep in the struggle, puttin food on they dinner plate
[02:43.20] Hungry W.O.L.V.E.S. that roll thick in packs
[02:45.99] And pray on you cats with the gangstafied raps
[02:48.02] Extortion, only gettin left with abortion
[02:50.68] Pullin out tools on them fools who be flossin
[02:53.35] (Chorus)
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