Scarface - Keep Me Down (Album Version (Explicit))(2002)

[00:02.08] This song is about a nigga always trying to keep you down
[00:03.87] You know you got to touch that
[00:05.06] We made something from nothing and vowed to never tear it apart
[00:11.57] We turned the street hustle into an art
[00:13.76] That would quickly change life forever for us
[00:16.22] No more riding bikes or catching the bus
[00:18.31] We on the roll up, money to fold up
[00:20.25] With cognac and cooked yola
[00:21.94] Got the neighborhood about to blow up, but hold up
[00:23.98] I see this van sittin?, this old cat in a fitted
[00:27.55] Trying to get your little homey tore up
[00:29.39] Yo bruh, we ain? t working on this corner take your ass on, dog
[00:33.02] ? Fore you make me feed your ass to my hogs you fucking fagot
[00:35.98] I know you want to catch me with this bag so you can hide me
[00:38.73] Or with my 44 so you can 45 me
[00:41.38] You put this shit off in our neighborhoods and sweat us
[00:44.15] And when you finally catch us up you give us letters
[00:46.73] A cold thing just when a nigga reach his gold man
[00:49.57] You hand him a case for easing out the dope game and I? m
[00:52.37] Watching us unfold with the times
[00:54.55] He don? t really want a nigga to climb
[00:56.56] You? d rather separate me from my family forever
[00:59.96] Instead of trying to keep us together
[01:01.85] You motherfuckers would rather keep me down
[01:03.76] So what I rap about these streets
[01:05.12] That don? t make me be no less of a man
[01:06.29] Than a person that do work with his hands
[01:08.23] It? s bad enough I got to deal with all these pressures that stand
[01:10.96] You tryin? to make me stray away from my plan
[01:13.04] Know what I? m sayin?
[01:14.68] I? m from the gutter, where all we had was one another
[01:16.53] No wheat bread to butter, from one bed to the other
[01:19.32] All uncles and no brother my mother? s at work
[01:21.94] My grandfather was my dad and when he died it hurt
[01:24.50] And as I hold back the tears my eye-wells swell
[01:27.68] I been praying for heaven, I been living in hell
[01:29.97] And these niggas in my age group is dead or either locked up
[01:32.92] The bitches no better, they smoked out or knocked up
[01:35.73] But I still love my hood, that? s where it started
[01:38.42] Ain? t no hard feelings, we partners nigga, regardless
[01:41.11] That? s why you always see me coming around
[01:43.79] ? Cause I could never turn my back on my town but still I? m
[01:46.71] Watching us unfold with the times
[01:49.13] He don? t really want a nigga to climb
[01:51.07] You? d rather separate me from my family forever
[01:54.35] Instead of trying to keep us together
[01:56.42] You motherfuckers would rather keep me down
[01:58.22] Watching us unfold with the times
[01:59.98] He don? t really want a nigga to climb
[02:02.19] You? d rather separate me from my family forever
[02:05.10] Instead of trying to keep us together
[02:07.03] You motherfuckers would rather keep me down
[02:08.56] Money never changed me
[02:09.66] Money changed the people around
[02:10.99] Now they plot to try to keep me down
[02:12.92] But still I rise like yeast
[02:14.18] Your whole conversation? bout B
[02:16.48] Fuck a nigga talking bout me, I? m a G
[02:19.36] The realest motherfucker ever done it
[02:21.53] You can? t continue to pimp me and y? all eat from it
[02:24.93] So fuck every soul who ever felt like I owed
[02:26.84] Them a god damn dime, or a god damn rhyme
[02:30.27] Or a god damn chance, motherfucker you sad
[02:32.55] You a grown ass man, holding a nigga hand
[02:35.49] Now get out on your own, stop depending on your homes
[02:37.98] To chuck you a bone, and stop throwing stones
[02:41.13] And that goes for everybody thinking it? s them
[02:43.96] Fuck you, you and you her
[02:46.10] Him and him, Tom, Dick and Kim
[02:48.07] All of y? all stand accused saying fuck to me
[02:50.68] And I done bought your children? s shoes I? m
[02:53.01] Watching us unfold with the times
[02:54.37] He don? t really want a nigga to climb
[02:56.50] You? d rather separate me from my family forever
[02:59.65] Instead of trying to keep us together
[03:01.44] You motherfuckers would rather keep me down
[03:03.65] Watching us unfold with the times
[03:05.37] He don? t really want a nigga to climb
[03:07.57] You? d rather separate me from my family forever
[03:10.84] Instead of trying to keep us together
[03:12.47] You motherfuckers would rather keep me down
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