You Don't Work U Don't Eat - WC And The Maad Circle.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : James Brown/Bootsy Collins/Fred Wesley/Roger Troutman/Kevin McCord/George Clinton Jr./Ron Dunbar/Jim Vitti/J.S. Theracon/Charles A. Bobbitt/Donnie R. Sterling
[00:00.03](feat. Ice Cube, MC Eiht, Jay Dee)
[00:00.60]"This afternoon we want to talk about"
[00:02.13]"Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from"
[00:05.28][WC]
[00:06.57]Five yers ago when I was in high school
[00:08.73]No bills to pay, I used to say to myself "Life is cool"
[00:12.06]I had a roof over my head and a part-time job
[00:14.79]Slanging at OB's birdstand
[00:16.68]Washington High was the school I attended
[00:18.99]Til '87 graduation came and I wasn't with it
[00:21.60]Kicked out the house at the age of 18
[00:23.94]No money for college, mmm, how should I handle things?
[00:26.79]I tried to go the so-called right way
[00:28.65]And went to a JC but I wasn't getting paid
[00:31.38]I'm working at a chicken stand now with the chicken
[00:33.75]With a spring at the top of my hat getting clowned
[00:36.09]I gotta pay my rent but my job ain't cutting it
[00:38.64]So now I'm drinking gin saying "Here's my alternative"
[00:41.28]To either keep doing what I'm doing, don't trip
[00:43.65]Or go and buy gats y'all and come up on a grip
[00:45.90]So like anybody else I went and bought a gun
[00:48.36]Pulling burgs at night and now I'm counting my funds
[00:51.12]Three times a day and I drive a coup on danas
[00:53.37]Cruising through the alley bumping on "Hi" to players
[00:55.77]Yo, you can say what you want but I was taught on the streets
[00:58.65]That if a brother didn't work, then he didn't eat
[01:01.05]"You don't work, you can't eat"
[01:04.29][Coolio]
[01:04.50]Peep this, something kind if for weakness
[01:08.31]Focus on the park and watch how I freak this
[01:10.80]Subject for survival, got to stay alive
[01:13.41]I gotta eat so I do or die
[01:15.30]Not a full-time crook but I was born right
[01:17.70]So if I want to eat, sometimes I got to jack
[01:20.25]So jack I will and go get some presidents
[01:22.95]A foot in the ground and the other on an oil slick
[01:25.35]Money ain't everything but either is brokeness
[01:27.84]Give me a knife cause I can't live off happiness
[01:30.33]Once a brother said I can't work for the white kind
[01:32.73]Standing on the corner in a soup line
[01:34.92]Said he's too black, too strong, ain't done nothing yet
[01:37.59]Waiting on the fifth for his government relief check
[01:40.14]Humming and bumming, most hate to see him coming
[01:42.30]And every first and 15th, these strongs on his life
[01:44.79]But a hustle is a hustle and a meal is a meal
[01:47.16]That's why I'm real and I ain't afraid to steal
[01:49.68]Straight from the street, backed up by a funky beat
[01:52.41]If you don't work, OG, then you don't eat
[01:59.94]"You don't work, you can't eat" [x2]
[02:03.00][Ice Cube]
[02:05.22]Ayo, I want y'all to meet a bitch from the Lench Mob
[02:07.56]He gaffled for his meals (McDonald's is my spot)
[02:10.44]Ayo Jay Dee, kick some shit for the Maad Circle, G
[02:13.26][Jay Dee]
[02:14.61]If you don't work, you don't eat, need I say more?
[02:16.92]Cause I'm a kick my rhymes in abundant while you stay poor
[02:19.62]Since I was 14 I raised myself
[02:21.57]I built a roof over my head and then I went for self
[02:24.03]I sold cooked-up rock, made my way through school
[02:26.58]I'm not saying you should do it cause it ain't too cool
[02:29.97]Kicking ???, playing to start your back
[02:31.50]Talking about that bullshit prize, you slay me right?
[02:33.96]And you other mother****ers out here banging for change
[02:36.39]Need to wise up and seek personal gain
[02:38.70]Or maintain some type of pain
[02:41.10]Cause they don't give away hot lunches out here in L.A.
[02:43.47]Yo peace to the Dub and the Maad Circle
[02:46.23]For giving me the chance to let the rhyme just flow
[02:48.48]So you can (So you can either sell shit or get your ass a job)
[02:51.75]Jay Dee (I'd rather roll with the Lench Mob)
[02:53.91]"You don't work, you can't eat"
[02:59.01][MC Eiht]
[02:59.22]Eiht is stepping from the city down under
[03:00.87]And I'm robbing more punk fools blind like Stevie Wonder
[03:03.99]Ain't no punching a clock, I ain't with it
[03:05.61]You Don't Work U Don't Eat: For a quarter an hour I make the **** every minute
[03:08.25]And please, don't even let me catch a brother slipping
[03:10.62]He'll be short, shorter than short
[03:12.57]With my hands around his troat
[03:13.92]Fool, come off the chain and bracelet
[03:16.44]I know it's wrong but face it
[03:18.93]A brother like me won't win the lottery
[03:20.88]Ain't no faking when it's time to bring home the bacon
[03:23.43]Cause I was taught get what you're gonna get quick
[03:26.22]And don't get gaffled in the mix
[03:28.32]So I guess I'll keep stacking, breaking the law
[03:30.78]Checking a fool, wrecking and breaking his jaw
[03:33.93]Gyeah, that's life in the Compton streets
[03:36.00]Homeboy you don't work, homeboy you don't eat
[03:38.10]"You don't work, you can't eat"
[03:41.07][WC]
[03:42.72]This record was put together by Jay Dee, Coolio, and the W
[03:45.78]Eight, Chilly Chill, and DJ Crazy Toons
[03:48.06]Sic brothers out to get paid cause
[03:50.01]Nowadays you got to go for yourself or go broke
[03:52.92]I'm living day by day cause you see the future ain't promised
[03:55.92]So save that drama for your mama
[03:57.48]And make sure you're out of my path when I'm on the creep tip
[04:00.30]Or have your first name changed to R.I.P.
[04:07.62]"You don't work, you can't eat" [x2]