Genius-gza I Gotcha` Back Lyrics

I Gotcha` Back Lyrics

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*