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4th Avenue Jones - Mr. Yayo
(from the album HipRockSoul)
© copyright 2004
AHMAD JONES:
My daddy was a son-of-a-gun/ now I'm the same way / Momma
can't afford what I want/ so I'ma slang Yay / I'm just into
hustlin' dope / my brother gang bangs / lot of homies
bussin' they flows, but yo I can't sang / I'ma thug caught
up in this street life/ street lights shinin' on us / judge
would love to give me three strikes / climbin' on up / was a
rookie now I'm street wise / fools duckin' when my heat
fires / never on probation, parole / 10th grade full of
frustration / droppin' out cause I'm so committed to my
occupation / and my pocket is swole / that's my only
motivation / sellin' blow to people basin' / I don't care
about they kids and stuff / or 'bout if they overdose /
tryna buy me a truck and throw it on some 24's / yeah I'm
breakin' they souls / I see they body gettin' weaker / but
I'm makin' this doe / that's why I'm not my brother's keeper
/ call me Nino Brown / turn my block into the Carter / don't
mean nothin' to me / to serve a father or his daughter / I'm
just hittin' this weed and practicin' at lookin' harder /
tryna keep from gettin' caught up / they call me Mr. Yayo
CHORUS:
Yeah, I be rockin' up this yayo / girls jockin' cause of
yayo / they call me Mr. Yayo, yayo, yayo
And when I'm drivin' they say ''Yayo''/ no nine to five for
Mr. Yayo / straight survivin' off of yayo / I love money and
this yayo, yayo, yayo
PETTIDEE:
Six in the mornin' police at my door / ice white Force One's
across the hard wood floor / Mac 10 in my hand then I
stuffed the clip / kiss my lady on the lips and then I
smacked on her hips and said / ''hop into the closet it's
about to get ugly / the feds and they folks they don'
finally came for me''/ if I'm goin' out today I'm goin' out
like a G / turn this mansion into a morgue and I'ma make
some history / I never heard the bullet comin', dog I took
one shot / lost the feelin' in my legs when my back got hot
/ they had a sniper in the bathroom at my neighbors place /
I always said that I'd regret that day I slapped him in his
face / I was a super killa thug kingpin who ain't care / now
I'ma super scarred inmate rollin' a chair / paralyzed and my
girl caught time as well / she couldn't take incarceration
hung herself in the cell / and the babies that we made now
they wards of the state / the labor pool don't sound bad now
but dog it's too late / the lifers ask me ''young blood what
you in here fo'?'' / I lost my kids and my life and my wife
and it was all for the yayo
CHORUS:
I'm big ballin' cause of yayo / I hear 'em callin' Mr. Yayo
/ I did it for the yayo, yayo, yayo
What you need I got the yayo / just get at me about this
yayo / I'm makin' G's cause of yayo / we did it for the
yayo, yayo, yayo
B-SECTION:
You think I wanna be out in these streets? please / I just
wanna eat/ if not me, there would be someone else workin' my
occupation / give that nigga what he bought / without a
thought / that habit that he caught's his own fault / I'm
just tryna stay fly with this higher inflation / it's easy
not that involved / really sorta kinda like basketball / you
can either shoot or just pass the ball / but somebody gotta
get paid / through talkin' got money to be made
TENA JONES:
I don't agree that you a victim in need of doe / I think
that it's sick afflictin' your people yo / no I'm not
sympathetic at all cause you're pathetic / just want a grip
and a tight whip to get you sweated / go get a job go to
college you don't wanna wait / momma got chicken at the
house, you just wanted steak / quit tryna say that you was
starvin' I'm from the hood / compared to people really
starvin' you got it good / Biggie forgot in his 10 Crack
Commandments the feds gave us that to get blacks to vanish /
that's wack and in fact it impacts the Spanish/ but long as
your cash stacks you think that's bananas / but it's a
heaven and hell that I believe in/ whatever you sow that let
you know what you receivin' / don't know a people been as
deceived as we've been / throwin' our own into the deep end
/ killin' for that yayo
CHORUS:
Got big paper cause of yayo / I live major cause of yayo /
you did it for that yayo, yayo, yayo
Why you trippin' 'bout the yayo / see what I'm dippin' cause
of yayo / I make my livin' off of yayo / you killin' for
that yayo, yayo, yayo
OUTRO:
What's really good / I love this yayo / I live good because
of this yayo / I stay fly because of this yayo / I'm tryna
feed my daughter / I don't care if I kill your son / I am
not my brother's keeper!