Genius And Gza I Gotcha Back Lyrics

I Gotcha Back Lyrics

originally appeared on the Fresh soundtrack and as a single  

  

 Chorus: GZA and RZA  

  

 I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front  

 Cause it's the niggaz that front, they be pullin stunts  

 I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front  

 Cause it's the niggaz who front (they be pullin stunts)  

  

 Lyrics:  

  

 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 slingin in my lobby  

 Little Steve and Bobby  

 Gettin 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 they lifestyle is hectic, so fuckin hectic  

 Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are ejected  

 My lifestyle was so far from well  

 Coulda wrote a book with a title "Age 12 and Goin 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 niggaz who front, they be pullin stunts  

 Back on the Ave of Lavonia and Bristol with a pistol  

 Stickin up Pamela and Crystal  

 You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest  

 kid come home from doin the bid and nuthin changes  

 What is the meaning of CRIME (what?)  

 Is it Criminals Robbin Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?  

 Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard  

 Tryin to 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 3X  

  

 RZA - I gotcha back (8X)  

 I gotcha back so you best to watch your front  

 Cause it's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts  

 I gotcha back but you best to watch your front  

 It's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts  

  

 Outro: (LP version only)  

  

 *old man*  

 Your, tech, nique, is, mag-ni-ficent  

 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