I Love da Streets - Sticky Fingaz, Omar Epps

This might sound crazy but

I love suffering, I love struggle, I love pain

'Cause what don’t kill you make you stronger nigga

And I’m as strong as they come

I love the streets 'cause that’s what made me me

Without the streets, baby, I couldn’t eat

I love the streets and although we was poor'

Without struggle boy you can’t grow

I love the streets and even though we sold drugs

And paid for it in blood, I love the streets

No matter what happened to me

My hood or your hood, it’s all good

I love the streets

Right now, my life don’t mean an awful lot

If I died today, who think the world gon' stop?

There’s a million niggaz just like me on the block

It’s either entertainment or sports or sellin' that rock

Think the judge gon' take ya word over a cops?

You be just another nigga that they stick in the box

But we are the streets, what other choice we got?

Then to go hard, give them niggaz all we got

Fuck that as long as I got breath in my lungs

I’m livin' my life, waitin' for my death to come

If you made it out the hood then God blessed you son

But if your fam there you ain’t out lesson one

Gotta spread around nigga that’s what’s real to me

Turn on the news, swear the shit be killin' me

Y’all from the streets probably ain’t feelin' me

You could take me out the hood but it’s still in me

I love the streets 'cause that’s what made me me

Without the streets, baby, I couldn’t eat

I love the streets and although we was poor'

Without struggle boy you can’t grow

I love the streets and even though we sold drugs

And paid for it in blood, I love the streets

No matter what happened to me

My hood or your hood, it’s all good

I love the streets

Fools is fake, I come through with the ghoulish face

Take small step, big moves I make

I could put it to your face then choose your fate

Everyday, Thanksgivin' for me two plates

Yeah, we do grace, God bless it all

From the mess hall to the boulevard with the dead dogs

When we cough and spit, guns they speak

The same language is the bullets, who talkin' shit?

Yo, Pac if ya listenin' they got the game twisted

Talkin' 'bout the hate you gave little infants

Fuck everybody here today, place ya ways

And ya fade away like the memory of Gotti

Take it back to '90, last year high school

Didn’t graduate though, still had to make dough

That’s my word, word for word I understood it all

Had big dreams though the hood is small

I love the streets 'cause that’s what made me me

Without the streets, baby, I couldn’t eat

I love the streets and although we was poor

Without struggle boy you can’t grow

I love the streets and even though we sold drugs

And paid for it in blood, I love the streets

No matter what happened to me

My hood or your hood, it’s all good

I love the streets