Ya Hear Me - 9th Wonder, Jozeemo

I’ve been living so foul so long, I swear

I think it’s the only way I know how to live

The streets made a monster in Jozeemo

I might need some help

Let’s go

The streets is all I know, the drugs is what I do

The crime is a damn shame, God, you hear me?

The streets is all I know, the drugs is what I do

The crime is a damn shame

You want to talk about hammers?

Well I own some

You want to talk about cases?

Well I got a few

Probably ‘cause I shot at you

I’m from the east side of Durham where the cops patrol

And live by the code «lock and load»

Glocks explode and grandmothers end up crying

Half the time, the wrong nigga always end up dying

What’s a daddy?

Ain’t nobody got them, we got to suffer

Knowing some dirty nigga in the back fucking our mother

School shopping, got two outfits, the other kids noticed

Started joking, shit, I ain’t been back since

I was a little nigga fiending to eat

And when the weather got cold, I found out the true meaning of heat

Fuck a radiator kerosene

I was 11 years old with a nine, I was strapped with a inf beam

Way too young for this grown man shit

But I’ll be damned if I’m on clutching with a two-hand grip

Come on

The streets is all I know, the drugs is what I do

The crime is a damn shame, God, you hear me?

Yo

I heard of CREAM but the DREAM seem astounding

‘Cause in my hood, drugs rule everything around me

Never hit the mall, the booth will bring the stores to you

It’s amazing what some hard can do

Make a mother take the food right out of a child’s mouth

A preacher get to losing religion and wild out

I’ve seen it all first hand

All-nighters on the block scared as fuck trying to bubble off my first gram

I got robbed, I got punched in the eye

And said «fuck it», next nigga try to play me got to die

So before I got posted up, 40-cal holsted up

Been about my life, took the strip and lit the whole shit up

That’s when the beef came, the hood had my back, jack

So that’s when the east came and Jozee got the street fame

The LOV was running shit, we had it locked, stocked, and barreled

Thorough, that’s even before the summer hit