[Chorus: GZA & RZA]
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
[Verse: GZA]
I was always taught my do's and don'ts
For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't
I'm from Brooklyn, a place where stars are born
Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn
And ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up
From fiends 'cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up
Kids are slinging in my lobby, little Steve and Bobby
Getting paid, but it's a life-threatening hobby
Yeah, they still play hide-and-seek
The fiends seek for the crack, and they hide and let the cops peep
Grown folks say they should be out on their own
Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home
Because their lifestyle is hectic, so fucking hectic
Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are injected
My lifestyle was so far from well
Could've wrote a book with the title "Age Twelve and Going Through Hell"
Then, I realized the plan
I'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man
So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front
'Cause it's the niggas who front, they be pulling stunts
Back on the Ave of Livonia and Bristol with a pistol
Sticking up Pamela and Crystal
You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest
Kid come home from doing the bid and nothing changes
What is the meaning of CRIME? (What?)
Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?
Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard
Tryna solve the puzzles to why is life so hard
Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!
Shots ring off and now one of them lay down
It's so hard to escape the gunfire
I wish I could rule it out like an umpire
But it's an everlasting game
And it never cease to exist, only the players change, so
[Chorus: GZA & RZA]
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
I got your back so you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front, that be pulling stunts
I got your back but you best to watch your front
It's the niggas who front, that be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas that front, they be pulling stunts
I got your back, but you best to watch your front
'Cause it's the niggas who front (They be pulling stunts)
[Outro: (LP version only)]
Your technique is magnificent
When cut across the neck
A sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say
I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday
To hear that sound
But to have it happen to my own neck is ridiculous
*man gasps for air*