Gang Starr - Tonz 'O' Gunz(1999)

[00:01.25] If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad
[00:05.99] If it's wrong to be violent
[00:08.82] Defending black women and black children and black babies and black men
[00:13.27] Then it is wrong for America to draft us
[00:16.37] And make us violent abroad in defense of her
[00:20.45] Tons o' guns everybody's getting strapped
[00:23.26] Tons o' guns got to watch the way you act
[00:25.50] Tons o' guns real easy to get
[00:28.07] Tons o' guns bringing nothing but death
[00:30.53] Tons o' guns are in the streets nowadays
[00:33.00] It's big money and you know crime pays
[00:35.47] Check your nearest overpopulated ghetto
[00:37.95] They greet you with a pistol not trying to say hello
[00:40.42] Mad kids packed 'cause the neighbourhood's like that
[00:42.80] Want some shit that's fat catch a victim do a stick
[00:45.45] Kids pulling triggers, niggas killing niggaz
[00:47.81] Five-o they sit and wait and tally death-toll figures
[00:50.67] It's crazy there ain't no time to really chill
[00:53.11] Jealous motherfuckers always want to act ill
[00:55.56] 22's, 25's, 44's, 45's
[00:57.88] Mack 11's, AK's, taking mad lives
[01:00.59] What the fuck you gonna do in a situation
[01:02.67] It's like you need to have steel just to feel relaxation
[01:05.71] Tons o' guns
[01:08.23] "The thing they know best is where the gun is kept"
[01:13.22] "The thing they know best is where the gun is kept"
[01:17.92] "The thing they know best is where the gun is kept"
[01:23.09] "The thing they know best is where the gun is kept"
[01:25.80] Tons o' guns you got we got they got
[01:28.45] The state of affairs yo it's like mad chaos
[01:31.35] I know a kid who just passed the other day
[01:33.15] They shot him 16 times so there he lay
[01:35.85] You can pray for this shit to like cease
[01:38.28] But until then a nigga's going to pack a piece
[01:40.82] And yo the devil's got assasination squads
[01:43.52] Want to kill niggaz 'cause they're scared of God
[01:45.73] They got camps where they train they learn to take aim
[01:48.48] At a nigga like a piece of game
[01:50.73] And I'm not seeing that, them days are gone
[01:53.60] 'Cause now we got (chromes) to put them where they belong
[01:55.72] So me a rude boy from and in a Brooklyn
[01:58.93] Fuck the bullshit, pain and suffering
[02:00.88] I'm coming off with a foolproof plan
[02:03.47] As if each every lyric was worth a hundred grand
[02:06.15] I stand in the face of hatred
[02:08.39] Letting off mad shots making devils run naked
[02:11.33] Tons o' guns
[02:13.27] "The thing they know best is where the gun is kept"
[02:19.46] "Is where the gun is kept"
[02:21.66] Tons o' guns everybody's getting strapped
[02:24.23] Tons o' guns got to watch the way you act
[02:26.75] Tons o' guns real easy to get
[02:29.24] Tons o' guns bringing nothing but death
[02:31.70] Tons o' guns but I don't glorify
[02:33.97] 'Cause more guns will come and much more will die
[02:36.67] Why, yo I don't know black
[02:38.91] Some motherfuckers just be living like that
[02:41.68] They like to feel the chrome in their hands
[02:44.15] The shit makes them feel like little big man
[02:46.81] 12 years old catching wreck
[02:48.93] 'Cause there ain't no supervision putting kids in check
[02:51.61] People get wounded, others they perish
[02:54.47] And what about the mother and the child she cherish
[02:57.09] The city is wild up steps the wild child
[02:59.69] Tension anger living in danger
[03:01.79] What the fuck you gonna do in a situation
[03:03.92] It's like you need to have steel just to feel relaxation
[03:06.63] Tons o' guns
[03:11.88] Tons o' guns
[03:16.96] Tons o' guns
[03:21.55] Tons o' guns
[03:26.81] Tons o' guns
[03:31.10] Tons o' guns
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