Streets Is Watching chords and lyrics - JAY-Z

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[Verse 1]
[Am]Uh-huh uh uh huh uh
Gee-gee-geyeah
[Dm]Baby, [Am]Baby, watching, streets
Uh-huh uh uh huh uh
Live from Brooklyn
Uh-huh uh
uh
[Dm]The streets is watching
[Am]Check it, check
Uh-huh uh, uh, check

[Verse 2]
Look, [Am]if I shoot you, I'm brainless
But if you shoot me,
then you're famous
What's a nigga to [Dm]do?
When [Am]the streets is watching,
blocks keep clocking
Waiting for you to break,
make your first mistake
Can't ignore it,
that's the fastest way to get extorted
But my time is money, at twenty-five,
I I can't afford [E]it
Beef [Am]as sorted like Godiva chocolates
Niggas you bought it,
I pull the slide back and cock it
Plan aborted,
you and your mans get a pass
This rhyme, you're operating
on bitch [Dm]time
Y'all niggas [E]ain't worth [Am]my shells,
all y'all niggas
Tryna do is hurt my sales,
and stop trips to John Meneill
The type to start a beef
then run to the cops
When I see you in the street
got one in the drop
When I'd rather be on tour
getting a hundred a pop
Taking pictures with some bitches
in front of the drop
The streets is watching

[Verse 3]
When the, streets is watching Blocks keep clocking
[Am]
Waiting for you to break,
make your first mistake
[Dm]Can'[Am]t ignore it

[Verse 4]
Now [Am]it's hard not to kill niggas
It's like a full time job not to kill niggas,
can't [Dm]chill
The streets [Am]is watching
[F]When you froze your arms
[Am]Niggas want to test you when
your gun goes warm
Can't get caught with your feet up,
got to keep your heat up
Sweet niggas running 'round
swearing shit is sweeter
Once you're tagged lame the game
is follow the leader
Everybody want a piece of your
scrilla, so you gotta keep it realer
Kidnap niggas wanna steal you
Broke niggas don't want no cash,
they just wanna [Dm]kill [E]ya
For [Am]the name, niggas don't know
the rules
Disrespecting the game,
want you to blow your cool
Force your hand,
of course that man's plotting
Smarten up, the streets is [Dm]watching,
[Am]it's on

[Verse 5]
When [Am]the, streets is watching
Blocks keep clocking
Waiting for you to break,
make your first mistake
[Dm]Can'[Am]t ignore it

[Verse 6]
My street mentality, [Am]flip bricks forever
Know me and money,
we like armed co-defendants
Nigga Nigga we stick together
Shit whatever for this cheddar ran
my game into the ground
Hustle harder until secret indictment
time came around
And you can look up and down
the streets and I can't be found
Put in twenty-four hour hour shifts but,
that ain't me now
Got a [E]face too easy [Am]to trace,
niggas mouths got slow leaks
Had to hire a team of workers,
couldn't play those streets
See out of space like Mercury,
you jerking me? Hectic
Had to call upon my wolves
to send niggas the [Dm]mes sage
I said [Am]this, "Let's play fair and
we can stay here
I'm trying to transform you boys to
men like daycare"
Ay, there's money to be made and
niggas got the picture
Stopped playing with my paper
and we got [Dm]richer
Then hard [E]times fell [Am]upon us
Half of my staff had warrants
The other half in the casket lay dormant
I felt like life was cheating me
For the first time in my life
I was getting money
But it was like my conscience
was eat[Dm]ing me
Was [E]this a lesson God [Am]teaching me?
Was he saying that
I was playing the game straight from Hell
from which few came back?
Like bad coke, pimp or die,
was my mind frame bad?
Was niggas thinking simplify
was turning cocaine [Dm]crack?
Ain't a [Am]whole lot of brain to that
Just trying to maintain a stack
And not collide like two trains
that's on the same track
But get my life together like
the oils I bring back
In the bottom of the pot
where the water gets hot
Got my transporter take it across
the border then stop
To set up shop with a quarter of rock
Here's the plan
For three straight weeks,
niggas slaughtered the block
But you know the game is food,
it fucked up me and my [Dm]dudes
One [E]drought can wipe [Am]a nigga out,
faster than the cops
And this unstable way
of living just had to stop
Half of my niggas got time,
we done real things
By '94 became the subject of
half of y'all niggas [Dm]rhymes
Public [Am]apologies to the families of those
caught up in my shit
But that's [Am]the life for us lost souls
brought up in this shit
The life and times of a nigga mind,
excited with crime
And the lavish luxuries that just
excited my [Dm]mind
I figured, [E]"shit,
why risk myself I just [Am]write it in rhymes
And let you feel me,
and if you don't like it then fine?"
The mind state of a nigga who
boosted the crime rate
So high in one city they send
National Guards [Dm]to get [F]me[Am]