[ti:Walk With Me (feat. Dmx)]
[ar:Big Stan]
[al:Pure Hip Hop]
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[00:00.42]Sometimes I will take my brother by the arm
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[00:03.49]Other times I will take
[00:04.44]My brother by the shoulder
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[00:06.19]Then there are times I will take
[00:07.31]My brother by the neck
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[00:09.28]Any way I touch you walk with me
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[00:16.07]Uhh uhh uhh GRRRRR
[00:24.20]This ain't the way it's supposed to be (B S )
[00:26.85]This ain't the way it's supposed to be
[00:28.69](off that bloodline thang)
[00:29.95]This ain't the way it's supposed to be
[00:31.55]This ain't the way sh*t is supposed to be
[00:33.88]Now I done seen the streets turned
[00:35.24]Into a beast with sharp teeth
[00:36.94]Put claws in the strong
[00:38.15]And just devour the weak
[00:39.43]Make them proud niggaz humble (uh-huh)
[00:41.27]Then turn around and make them
[00:42.57]Loud niggaz mumble (uh-huh)
[00:43.83]In the jungle I done seen niggaz
[00:45.55]Voted "Most likely to win"
[00:47.25]Lose it all at the end of a stem;
[00:48.96]What a lame (uhh)
[00:50.12]Friends killin friends for paper
[00:51.95]What a shame (uhh)
[00:52.99]And everybody thinkin they players
[00:54.33]What a game (damn)
[00:55.57]I done seen this whole sh*t change
[00:57.02]Looked again and realized
[00:58.10]That ain't sh*t changed (WHAT)
[00:59.59]Except the fact that
[01:00.34]I'm a grown man now (uhh)
[01:01.89]Standin on my own two
[01:03.02]Used to hate guns
[01:04.17]Now a ni**a own two (C'MON )
[01:06.05]Twin glocks for cops and use I promise to
[01:08.17]I ain't goin out like Amadou
[01:09.49]You know what I'ma do (AIGHT )
[01:11.14]So sit back and try to visualize if you can
[01:13.32]All the stories of a wise man - walk with me
[01:16.04]Look at my life look at how I live
[01:19.34]
[01:20.45]Look at what I go through
[01:22.01]
[01:22.90]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[01:25.73]Look at my li-ife look at how I live
[01:29.75]
[01:30.95]Look at what I go through
[01:32.18]
[01:33.37]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[01:36.06](My ni**a )
[01:36.67]Now I've done seen life play jokes
[01:38.21]With death as a punchline
[01:39.56]In a world with no hope
[01:40.79]Struggle to get mine
[01:42.06]I was raised in a time of
[01:43.39]Regret and bad news (uh-huh)
[01:44.95]So I was taught my values
[01:46.08]By bad dudes (uhh)
[01:47.43]Hustlers and killers
[01:48.26]
[01:48.79]They taught me wrong from right
[01:50.23]Told me everything
[01:51.28]That's wrong is right like
[01:52.55]Hoppin a train poppin the thang
[01:54.87]And havin hot blocks poppin
[01:56.19]With 'caine lockin the game (C'MON )
[01:58.07]And the more sh*t change
[01:59.29]The more it's the same
[02:00.26]And the more you try to get rid of it
[02:01.82]The more it remains
[02:02.70]You remember when the
[02:03.76]Kid's dream to get to the top
[02:05.40]Was bein doctors firemen
[02:06.96]Even the cops
[02:08.13]Look at the kids now lost no hope
[02:10.63]To get ahead they plan to rap
[02:12.03]Play ball or sell d**e (ooooh)
[02:13.48]And if you thinkin we
[02:14.22]The problem you wrong
[02:15.40]A generation died at the same time
[02:17.25]Our fathers was born
[02:18.36]Look at my life look at how I live
[02:21.91]
[02:23.03]Look at what I go through
[02:24.53]
[02:25.56]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[02:28.52]Look at my li-ife look at how I live
[02:32.30]
[02:33.49]Look at what I go through
[02:34.99]
[02:35.98]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[02:38.55](Big Stan)
[02:39.10]I've seen a broken home influence
[02:40.22]A good kid to go bad
[02:42.05]Cause boys with sane minds to go mad (uhh)
[02:44.88]And young girls to lose
[02:45.90]They innocence so fast
[02:47.23]And so often the results are so sad
[02:49.86]Losin her skirt
[02:50.89]Don't even know what flirt means
[02:52.41]So a baby's poppin up
[02:53.53]With a baby at thirteen (damn)
[02:55.27]A few years she tried to settle down
[02:56.79]With her man
[02:57.51]Tried to stop f**kin all them other
[02:59.00]Niggaz and can't
[03:00.01]Though she want to
[03:01.00]The curse got her doin this dirt
[03:02.66]Cause she saw mommy do it whenever
[03:04.22]Daddy went to work (damn)
[03:05.54]And it hurts I know the pain call it the truth
[03:07.88]Bad parents are destroyin the youth
[03:09.54]I been there (WHAT )
[03:10.92]I've watched men beat
[03:11.78]On my mother my whole life
[03:13.15]So when I hit my baby mother
[03:14.56]I thought it was alright (NO )
[03:16.14]Maybe if I woke up
[03:17.23]And them niggaz was gone
[03:18.53]I woulda knew that all the hittin was wrong
[03:20.30]Talk to me
[03:21.09]Look at my life look at how I live
[03:24.33]
[03:25.31]Look at what I go through
[03:27.03]
[03:28.03]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[03:31.10]Look at my li-ife look at how I live
[03:34.67]
[03:35.83]Look at what I go through
[03:37.38]
[03:38.50]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[03:40.97]
[03:41.62]Look at my life look at how I live
[03:45.08]
[03:46.24]Look at what I go through
[03:47.90]
[03:48.90]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[03:52.05]Look at my li-ife look at how I live
[03:55.74]
[03:56.68]Look at what I go through
[03:58.26]
[03:59.26]So what I've got to give (THIS IS IT )
[04:02.10]My niggaz
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[04:03.47]This is for my niggaz
[04:05.17]
[04:05.83]This is for my niggaz
[04:07.84]
[04:08.47]This is for my niggaz
[04:10.55]
[04:11.28]This right here Is for my niggaz
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[04:14.44]B S baby Uh-huh uhh
[04:16.82]Bloodline bloodline bloodline
[04:18.38]All my dogs off the motherf**kin chain
[04:20.99]
[04:21.61]Arf arf arf arf arf-arf ya heard
[04:26.45]B**ch a** ni**a (b**ch a** ni**a )
[04:28.40]Iceberg hoo B K Ali X St Claire Jinx
[04:36.22]Walk With Me (feat Dmx) - Big Stan