Temptation play in the background

From tac town I made up to the ave now

This full moon

The wolves singing the gospel

Exhaust fumes

Dripping out of

My nostrils

Crossroads, lights change

I switch gears

Rain falls, tires burn

The smoke clears

Paper bag, broken glass, and a spilt beer

5 slugs n dried blood that’s still here

I been there when the shit get ugly

From truck loads to hustler

To desperate junkie

People he trusted who fled the country

Got em locked up then let out and

Left with nothing

His last words written on a cardboard box

With his hand out begging

But the cars don’t stop

Still I give what I got

But it ain’t that much

Yeah to the top it’s a long way up

We stay riding to the beat

Cause we-ain’t, got-no, place, to-go

No we ain’t got no place to go

Place to go

Oh I know

In the streets—

Got-to, make-it, on, your-own

Got to make it on your own

On your own

Oh Lord

Money make the world go round

And when that chatch hit the block

Say the birds in town

Seen the streets come alive

Once the word gets out

You ain’t hustler

Until you learn to work the crowd

Watch the moonlight flicker offa

Purple clouds

He was a bus boy

But I heard he serving now

Lockjaw it ain’t raw

If it hurts ya mouth

White powder on they face

Like some circus clowns

Out in East los

Chico used to cook shit down

I’m an old school dodger

Baby brooklyn bound

Paid my debt to the game

I don’t owe no favors

Burnt dreams

Crushed up in a rolling paper

Swear I lost my soul

Tryna chase a million

So I’m running with the moon

Just to shake the feeling

In the bricks it gets hard just to raise ya children

In the city where cops come and raid ya building

We stay riding to the beat

Cause we-ain’t, got-no, place, to-go

No we ain’t got no place to go

Place to go

Oh I know

In the streets—

Got-to, make-it, on, your-own

Got to make it on your own

On your own

Oh Lord

We stay riding to the beat

Cause we-ain’t, got-no, place, to-go

No we ain’t got no place to go

Place to go

Oh I know

In the streets—

Got-to, make-it, on, your-own

Got to make it on your own

On your own

Oh Lord