Redman - So Ruff(1992)

[00:00.99] Ah Redman, do you feel that the blacks in your community
[00:02.76] Are still mad at the racial situation? Yeah they still mad
[00:07.22] And if you don't take that funny smirk off your face
[00:09.93] I'ma kick your over three hundred ghetto-related crimes happened
[00:16.25] In New York, New Jersey alone still the saga continues
[00:18.00] Stick 'em up, stick 'em up, I got the jammie to your vest punk
[00:20.71] Don't make a move, before I choose to make your guts run
[00:23.44] All over the block, 'cause my stomach's in a knot
[00:25.20] And it growls twenty-four hours a day around the tick-tock
[00:28.04] I got roaches and vats of the rats carryin' bats and gats
[00:31.62] So I 'fore I snack jack
[00:33.47] Because I'm not down with water from the hydrant
[00:35.21] My moms takin' a bath and my brother's next arrivin'
[00:37.93] I gotta think of a plan so I can eat
[00:39.72] I haven't had a cracker for weeks so my mouth leaks
[00:42.43] I squat up, 'cause I'ma set up this kid, carryin' loot out
[00:46.01] From burger king and what I'ma do is
[00:46.94] Run up on him, snatch the bag of money, then bust the dummy
[00:51.58] 'Cause my man when I think of a plan there's no shorts take
[00:54.20] 'Cause I pack jammies inside of my nordface, coat
[00:56.98] Had the black brother on scope
[00:58.78] No joke's what I am 'cause the man's a pure pro
[01:01.45] Yo my man you got a light?
[01:04.14] Yeah, give me the effin' money too G, yo stop stop stop
[01:06.89] Took the money then I dipped with the quickness
[01:08.74] The plan went well so I got down to the business
[01:11.41] Opened up the bag it was filled with paper
[01:13.30] I thought I freaked the funk but now starts the caper
[01:15.95] 'Cause I was set up, now I have to go head up with the cops
[01:18.62] What they carryin'? Black glocks, shit's thick
[01:21.32] What's the next move? My life's on the line
[01:23.14] Bullets in their clips and none in mine
[01:25.88] Sirens on, once again it's on
[01:27.64] I fell and then the black glocks went pow
[01:30.38] I got snuffed and I got bust
[01:32.14] Now the only thing I'm sniffin' is dust, because it's
[01:35.74] It's so ruff, 'cause it's so ruff
[01:45.79] 'Cause it's so ruff, it's so ruff
[01:54.19] Me and Erick Sermon takin' a trip uptown
[01:56.85] In the boat run a blast and my tape pumpin' ganja
[01:59.54] Since Erick got props
[02:01.31] I step to this hottie with more damn body than a chop shop
[02:04.03] Flexed the jewels then she chose to talk to me
[02:06.76] It was no doubt that baby cakes was hawkin' me
[02:09.46] So I kicked it, upped the digits, terrific
[02:11.25] Not knowin she was scopin' me 'cause I was mad splifted
[02:13.91] Later on that week honeydip freaked the funk
[02:16.66] Playin' Redman and Erick out like two chumps
[02:18.50] Callin' him weekdays, callin' me weeknights
[02:21.29] Who had her weekends? Whichever man would freak right
[02:23.96] Things got cozy one night like dynamite
[02:25.78] We stripped to bare backs and took care of the bare facts
[02:28.47] No hats went funkadelic
[02:30.22] Took a splash, you know how that go fellas
[02:32.92] Two months later, see you later alligator
[02:34.77] She was pissed and, I ended up seein' my position
[02:37.56] She took a blood test, she took a head check
[02:40.24] Looked at me thinkin', why the hell he isn't dead yet?
[02:42.96] Then I asked her, "Why you lookin' at me?"
[02:44.71] She said, "Redman because you have the HIV"
[02:47.46] Called Erick and his set, that girl, don't mess around
[02:50.18] Too late, 'cause Erick already had his drawers down 'cause it's
[02:52.86] It's so ruff, it's so ruff
[03:04.65] 'Cause it's so ruff, 'cause it's so ruff
[03:11.83] To all my brothers wear your hats wear your hats
[03:13.64] You can either get with this or you can either catch the claps
[03:16.30] And to my sisters, make 'em wear they prophyllastic
[03:19.08] 'Cause it's drastic, havin' another ghetto bastard
[03:20.84] Think I'm buyin' for a piece of butt? Honey you must be nuts
[03:23.59] You better settle for a wet kiss so pucker up
[03:26.33] 'Cause you end up messin' around catchin' the heebie jeebies
[03:28.18] Lookin' like who done it? Witcha face up on the TV
[03:30.81] So next time you want sex, get wreck, but protect
[03:33.56] 'Cause you could be like sexin' to your last death
[03:35.35] And if you still don't know the time, press rewind
[03:38.06] 'Cause the next thing you might hear is a flatline
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