Coolio - Is This Me? (Amended)(1995)

[00:01.73] Yeah 1996
[00:05.33] Coolio with the flow
[00:08.08] Rated R superstar
[00:09.95] LV that's right
[00:16.29] Mossberg Smith & Wesson
[00:23.44] Forty-five let me tell you how I learned my lesson
[00:26.19] House party in the hood at some niggas I don't know
[00:28.97] But I had to go they had a house full of hos
[00:31.68] I stepped into that party with my nigga high off that head
[00:35.28] The hos is looking good so we try to make a friend for night
[00:37.90] Let's get it right let's get it straight
[00:40.63] But now these punkass niggas in the party want to play a hate
[00:43.37] I'd bust a cap to save a rat so what's up with that
[00:46.16] It's 1996 so these bustas get no kinda of doubt
[00:47.96] Like American Express here we go again
[00:50.61] I never leave home without it so don't even think about it
[00:53.34] Just let me leave and I won't have to make you bleed
[00:56.12] But if you make an offensive move then I'm gonna have to show a groove
[00:59.77] Back up off let's keep it soft
[01:01.51] Don't make me have to show you who these 16 bosses be
[01:04.25] This really ain't me no more
[01:06.08] These streets won't let me go
[01:08.83] I can't escape this life
[01:12.49] That they got me trapped inside
[01:15.15] This really ain't me no more
[01:17.86] These streets won't let me go
[01:20.52] I can't escape this life
[01:23.28] That they got me trapped inside
[01:26.07] Way back in the days we dudes don't forget a name
[01:28.79] Now everybody wants the fame but things change ain't the same
[01:32.31] All these sucker set-trippin killin for no reason
[01:35.00] That's why I never leave the house without my nina
[01:37.72] I love my baby carry my baby whereever I go
[01:40.49] For these suckers get in a twist they say I beat their pimpin
[01:43.26] Stop wishin you was in my shoes
[01:45.02] And learn to be yourself stop acting like somebody else
[01:48.63] It's ninety-six and most of the homeys thinking of six feet
[01:51.35] The six I found out if you wear partners where the friends go
[01:53.10] Every week you don't see me I gotta put at work
[01:55.81] I guess the shit don't stop till my gaskets drop
[01:59.54] Stop hating my life and get your own
[02:01.30] Be true to this game or this game will do you cold
[02:04.04] Everywhere I go I got my back
[02:06.82] I hate to do my all black but I must stay strapped
[02:09.57] This really ain't me no more
[02:12.21] These streets won't let me go
[02:14.93] I can't escape this life
[02:17.63] That they got me trapped inside
[02:20.33] This really ain't me no more
[02:23.11] These streets won't let me go
[02:25.84] I can't escape this life
[02:28.58] That they got me trapped inside
[02:31.21] No no oooo I can't escape this life
[02:42.98] I been trying to live in piece but these fools won't cease
[02:44.88] They insist with their bullshit so I got a full clip
[02:48.45] Chitty-chitty bang-bang doin it's a new thing
[02:51.14] One shot from a Jake .38 can make your brain ache
[02:52.99] I'm the kinda nigga that don't believe in frontin'
[02:55.74] But if you run up on me trippin you best believe I'm dumpin'
[02:58.41] I got bills to pay and kids to raise
[03:01.19] And a whole generation of lost niggas to save
[03:03.85] So I ain't got time for that yip yap
[03:06.52] If you start some static I'm gonna have to blow your mind back
[03:09.22] Believe that nigga daisy if you do it's true
[03:12.94] Fuck with Coo you get done that's how we do it to it
[03:15.68] Don't start no shit and it won't be none son
[03:17.44] But if you do I'm going for my gun
[03:20.18] Like Doc Holliday a nigga ain't scary
[03:22.84] So if you want to trip then I'll be your huckleberry
[03:26.44] This really ain't me no more
[03:27.39] These streets won't let me go
[03:30.19] I can't escape this life
[03:32.85] That they got me trapped inside
[03:36.54] This really ain't me no more
[03:38.31] These streets won't let me go
[03:41.03] I can't escape this life
[03:44.76] That they got me trapped inside
[03:48.35] This really ain't me no more
[03:50.15] These streets won't let me go
[03:52.80] I can't escape this life
[03:55.56] That they got me trapped inside
[03:58.20] This really really really ain't me
[04:01.09] But the streets won't let me go
[04:03.76] I can't escape this life
[04:06.48] That they got me trapped inside
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