Gang Starr, Scarface - Betrayal(1998)

[00:00.95] (Phone conversation):
[00:01.74] Yo what up son?
[00:02.11] -Yo what up kid?
[00:02.73] Yo, you holdin your head up?
[00:03.56] -I'm tryin to man, but the system is shady
[00:05.85] Word man they always man, they always tryin
[00:09.05] To keep a good brother down, but I'm sayin
[00:10.60] We still, you know we got love for you son
[00:13.36] And we prayin for you and we, you know
[00:14.70] We tryin to hold it down wh
[00:16.19] You know while you in there man
[00:18.36] -No question
[00:19.18] Hopefully they won't keep you in there for too long
[00:20.67] -Yeah, for real, I sure love be out in a minute, you know?
[00:22.92] -But you know what I want you to kid? You know what would
[00:26.12] -Be the bomb man?
[00:26.97] What's that?
[00:27.66] -You need to do some shit with Face man
[00:28.64] -Bomb on niggaz, be shady man
[00:30.06] Scarface?
[00:30.91] -Yeah man
[00:32.06] Yo that's my nigga, yaknowwhaImean
[00:33.88] -Scarface is tight son
[00:35.06] Yo that's a good idea word is bond
[00:37.15] I'm gonna talk the play in tomorrow(yeah) and
[00:39.23] See about if we could hook up wit him
[00:41.14] -That's proper
[00:41.80] Guru
[00:44.88] Scandalous, money greed and lust
[00:47.64] In this trife life, there ain't nobody you can trust
[00:51.19] Plus there's no justice, it's just us
[00:54.23] In fact, watchin' yo back it be must
[00:57.78] And each and everyday around the way gats bust
[01:00.71] And jealous so-called friends'll try to set you up
[01:03.76] It's called betrayal
[01:06.65] 1: Guru
[01:10.46] Check the horror scene
[01:11.82] The kid was like twelve or thirteen
[01:13.95] Never had the chance like other kids to follow dreams
[01:17.03] Watched his father catch two in the dome and to the spleen
[01:20.22] Nothin' but blood everywhere, these streets are mean
[01:23.54] They spared his life, but killed his moms and his sister Jean
[01:27.10] Of course over some drug shit
[01:29.20] His pops was on some ill-out, spill your guts, on some thug shit
[01:33.51] Didn't know his boys was on some shady ass no love shit
[01:36.62] His pops got played out though, with silencers they laid him out yo
[01:40.73] Took his stash and all the cash and left 'em, tied up on the couch yo
[01:44.39] With tape over his mouth, so he couldn't cry out
[01:47.48] Cause his dad was the nigga with clout
[01:50.07] Survival of the fittest so they split his wig no doubt
[01:53.25] Despite the stocking caps he noticed the same cat, who used to give him doe
[01:57.60] And taught him, to use the same gat
[01:59.23] Supposed to be an Uncle, fam and all that
[02:02.24] He could tell it was him 'cause he wore the same slacks, he wore when
[02:06.86] He took him to Meadowlands racetrack
[02:08.99] Why did he flip and go out like that?
[02:11.58] It's called betrayal
[02:37.10] 2: Scarface
[02:38.49] A Betrayal
[02:41.16] Punk ass niggas
[02:43.64] It's called betrayal
[02:47.99] He on a mission to become a ball player
[02:50.89] Flip big Benz's, flossin all gators
[02:54.13] Had it all mapped out, 6-8, 12th grader
[02:57.40] Fresh outta school, he filn' to go lay paper
[03:00.56] He had a brother who was hustlin collection his change
[03:03.69] Never let his baby brother stick his neck in the game
[03:06.87] Told him all he had to do is just enjoy the ride
[03:09.99] And he ain't have to worry about money cause that's in time
[03:13.54] So now he's pacin as the time moves slowly
[03:16.90] Can't wait to face Shaquille in the paint and school Kobe
[03:19.91] Kept his grades and stayed up under neighborhood functions
[03:23.59] And then a group of knuckleheads came through dumpin
[03:26.81] So now he's sittin on the sidewalk bleedin
[03:29.62] Fell into a puddle of his own blood and stopped breathin
[03:33.00] And everybody in the neighborhood still grievin
[03:36.23] But destiny caught up with his ass and he got even
[03:39.55] And all the cryin in the world ain't goin to bring him back
[03:43.10] His brother, sittin at the wake wipin tears from his mother's eyes
[03:47.32] Why'd the game have to go and take the young boys life
[03:50.62] Only the wicked live shife, payin the price
[03:53.65] While he's starin at the shell
[03:55.12] His brothers soul wants hell the trigger man made bail
[03:58.46] And you, wouldn't pay the boys mail, and sacrificed the fuckin family
[04:04.00] That's betrayal
[04:05.69] Betrayal(echoes)
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