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4th Avenue Jones - Why
(from the album HipRockSoul)
© copyright 2004
AHMAD:
I'm reminiscing like JOE, starin' at faded pictures /
Through satan's tempting and death, back resurrected as the
greatest victor / Throughout my travels sampled great
elixirs, liquors and weed / feel like I'm bleedin', need a
way to fix this / pain that I feed / I told 'em ''Go head I
ain't comin''' / Bed being Co-Ed stop being fun and I can't
even sleep cause stress runnin' my mind / Wearin' these
diamonds but don't none of 'em shine / my heart is heavy/
every problem weigh a ton at a time / Stay isolated cause
I'm one of a kind/ Fake homies claimin' that they got my
back but every one of 'em lyin' / My label jerkin' me
forever jackin' / But like Jeremiah this fire got in my
bones now I'm forever rappin' / I took the bitter with the
sweet/ never quitters we keep / teachin' like ghetto
Messiah's to deliver the streets / Became a son of God as
soon as I admitted I'm weak / and gave back what was given
to me/ I don't understand why?
CHORUS:
I don't know why / you gotta lie / think I'm gon' try / take
yo' piece of the pie/
scheme and you cheat / cheat and you lie/ I don't understand
why they keep playin' wit' me
I don't know why / you gotta lie / think I'm gon' try / take
yo' piece of the pie/
scheme and you cheat / cheat and you lie/ I'm a grown man
now quit playin' wit' me
None of y'all ain't ready for it / I don't think they ready
for it
really y'all ain't ready for it / I don't think they ready
for it
y'all think y'all ready for it / I don't think they ready
for it
who think they ready for it? / I don't think they ready
TENA JONES:
This hip-hop-rock-soul is all we do around here / I spit a
lot, practicing flowin' while I'm doin' my hair / from
Little Rock/ some of 'em said I wasn't goin' nowhere / but I
had confidence these poems I shared be embraced by many /
said ''you way too skinny''/ nobody gave me anything, be
singin' at my job while I slave for pennies / I love MC'n/
love to be in, the studio locked/ haters that knocked gon'
see me rockin' at coliseums / I used to cry watchin' these
video shows/ pitiful/ artist with silly flows/ they gotta be
kiddin' / yo why we dope and got it hard like this? / I
don't understand it my band is makin' all these hits / and I
feel abandoned by labels cause they all insist / I should
straighten my hair to hit it / I'm real but they don't get
it / every Mic I lit it / for fans I stay committed / want
me solo forget it / we make a dollar we split it/ Tell me
why?
CHORUS:
I don't know why / you gotta lie / think I'm gon' try / take
yo' piece of the pie/
scheme and you cheat / cheat and you lie/ I don't understand
why they keep playin' wit' me
BRIDGE:
I'm gon' stay ready / I'ma stay ready (repeat till the
end)
TENA'S ADLIB:
Ready for whatever / ready for whoever / you ain't gon'
never catch us slippin' / this is Hiprocksoul / It don't
matter what they say / Tena Jones gon' be ready / we all
gon' be ready / 4th Avenue gon' stay ready / we gon' be
ready / we gon' stay ready / We been puttin' it down for so
long/ I'm ready/ I've been ready all my life / I've been
ready all my life/ so every thing will be all right