Mobb Deep - Up North Trip(2020)

[00:29.85] It all began on the street, to the back of a blue police vehicle
[00:33.82] Next come the bookings, the way things is looking
[00:36.57] It's Friday, you in for a long stay
[00:38.82] Getting shackled on the bus first thing come Monday
[00:42.13] Hoping in your mind you'll be released one day
[00:44.75] But knowing, home is a place you're not going for a long while
[00:48.26] Now you're up on the Isle
[00:49.97] And the position that you in got you refusing to smile
[00:52.49] But keep in mind, there's a brighter day, after your time spent
[00:55.79] Used to be wild, but locked up, you can't get bent
[00:58.12] Thought you could hack it, now you're requesting PC
[01:00.92] You're fragile, it ain't hard to see
[01:03.58] Niggas like that don't associate with me
[01:06.18] I'd rather, get busy to the third degree
[01:08.90] 'Cause the war in population's on infinitely
[01:11.50] If this was the street, my razor would be a MAC demon
[01:14.96] Hit you up, leave your whole face screaming
[01:17.23] What you in for kid, busting nuts?
[01:19.57] Cats heard of me in street stories caught inside this trap
[01:22.72] Who are you to look at me with your eyes like that?
[01:25.46] Wisen up, young blood, before you make things escalate
[01:28.66] And I would hate to set your crooked ass straight
[01:31.88] Make your moves at night
[01:33.57] Pack your heat in this war zone, niggas is trife
[01:36.36] Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
[01:39.07] Make one false move and it's a up north trip
[01:41.76] Living the high life, make your moves at night
[01:44.42] Pack your heat in this war zone, niggas is trife
[01:47.21] Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
[01:49.95] Make one false move and it's a up north trip
[01:52.75] You tried to dip, duck, but still got bucked
[01:55.78] You talk too much shit, you shoulda kept your mouth shut
[01:58.35] All that gossip, motherfucker, don't you know my Glock kicks
[02:01.39] Hollow tips, to your body, mad toxic
[02:03.83] I fade you, blow you with a rusty-ass razor
[02:06.68] Did you a favor, tried to wet you but I graze you
[02:09.44] Pop goes the Glock when there's beef on the block
[02:11.99] Chill for a while, make them think the beef stop
[02:14.55] Then I creep like a thief in the night, it's only right
[02:17.53] Ain't no turning back, it's on tonight
[02:20.47] And if I get caught, then my ass is up north
[02:22.98] Straight on a course for upstate New York
[02:25.85] Stressed, smoking back-to-back cigarettes
[02:28.46] It popped off, one point in the mess hall
[02:31.47] But to avoid that, from head-to-toe dipped in all black
[02:34.85] Hit them niggas where they pump they cracks at
[02:36.96] Havoc, with the murder master plan
[02:39.13] Keep my nine up to par so my shit won't jam
[02:42.10] God forbid if my shit do, run behind a tree
[02:44.53] Fix my shit then hit you
[02:46.35] Slugs in your body, mainly in your brain tissue
[02:49.04] Ditch from the scene, get ghost, stash the pistol, so simple
[02:53.08] Then, watch my back, lay up and relax
[02:55.74] Roll a sack, K-A black, find a shorty to tap
[02:58.33] Living the high life, make your moves at night
[03:01.14] Pack your heat in this war zone, niggas is trife
[03:03.50] Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
[03:06.68] Make one false move and it's a up north trip
[03:09.28] Living the high life, make your moves at night
[03:11.93] Pack your heat in this war zone, niggas is trife
[03:14.53] Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
[03:17.43] Make one false move and it's a up north trip
[03:20.11] I got the power, combine wit' the powder, and water
[03:23.40] It oughta, drop in a half and hour
[03:25.71] In the, form of oil, watch the cocaine boil
[03:28.63] Keep my eye on it so the shit won't spoil
[03:31.08] Then I pause... and ask God why
[03:34.06] Did he put me on this Earth just so I could die?
[03:36.82] I sit back and build on all the things I did wrong
[03:39.53] Why I'm still breathing, and all my friends gone
[03:42.28] I try not to dwell on the subject for a while
[03:44.89] 'Cause I might get stuck in this corrupt lifestyle
[03:47.50] But my, heart pumps foul blood through my arteries
[03:50.83] And I can't turn it back, it's a part of me
[03:53.47] Too late for crying, I'm a grown man struggling
[03:56.06] To reach the next level of life without fumbling down or folding
[03:59.89] I got no shoulder to lean on but my own
[04:02.33] All alone in this danger zone
[04:04.69] Time waits for no man, the streets grow worse
[04:07.68] Fuck the whole world, kid, my money comes first
[04:10.16] 'Cause I'm out for the gusto, and trust nobody
[04:13.04] If you're not family, then you die by me
[04:15.43] 'Cause niggas will have you locked up, the snitch be your man
[04:18.44] Giving police the run down on your plans
[04:21.28] But never going down like that
[04:23.05] So I, shut my mouth and hold my words back
[04:25.99] Illegal business, forever mines, fuck paying taxes
[04:28.78] The last kid that shitted and gave police access
[04:31.44] To my blueprints, used names as evidence
[04:34.16] Skipped town and I haven't seen the snitch nigga ever since
[04:37.20] The moral of the story is easy to figure out
[04:40.38] A lesson that you can't live without
[04:42.08] Living the high life, make your moves at night
[04:45.01] Pack your heat in this war zone, niggas is trife
[04:47.78] Running from one-time, ain't no time to slip
[04:50.30] Make one false move and it's a up north trip
[04:53.06] Living the high life
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