Something's not right
Urban sprrawl, from urban blight
something's not right
when history turn into a building site
locked out, fenced up, closed down without a sound
Something's not right
when downtown is just all blinking lights
Something's not right
once you were free and you stretched out your wings to the sky
sky was the limit, cap on your creativity
team against team could we even the score
our hearts kept the rhythm, that forbidden beat
your talons now grip like steel to the weight they chained you to
two in the morning, you can't hear the rumbling train
trained not to think or question anything
the chains that had bound you are now obsolete
please open your eyes,
everything they told you was a lie,
think for yourself won't you even try to look past all of those lies
think for yourself
for generations the answer has always been no
no one remembers and nobody cares to ask
asking a question is deemed criminal and slowly the silence grows
on the growing list of the mindless, by your name a check
checkmate the situation if we all toe the line
line up and never open up your eyes
and don't even think about raising your voice
leave your mind without thought (they fill it)
identity erased
place refuse in your sight (you swill it)
yeah it seems they got you bound (bound tight)
yeah it seems they got you beat
the chains that held you down (you down)
Don't ask me nomore questions
Just get out of my face
I told you I know nothing
I'm leaving this fucked up place
You're trying to take my freedom for
Something that I haven't done
I'm not a fucking rat
So just go fuck yourself
Justice, justice
That word don't mean nothing to you
Fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you and your system too
You've ruined my life
There's no turning back now
If I don't rat I'll never get out
I know nothing, that's not
What I'm about
You locked me up an innocent man
Because I got some pride
I got some pride
Can't you see what you're
Doin' to me
Locked me down when I should be free
I've done no wrong
I'm an innocent man
You don't give a fuck
All day long I sit and watch your back
Keep on coming like a heart attack
I can't tell you that you know no lie
But you know in your mind that you're a fucked up guy
Come on baby now you set me free
Come on now you gotta let me be
I can't tell you cause I don't know why
Cause you know this time you're gonna let me fly
It's coming back again
It's coming round the bend
No need to pretend
Get off of my back
It's coming back again
It's coming round the bend
Coming to an end
Get off of my back
Keep on pushing keep a month's inhale
Cause if I fall you know you might die here
Keep on dreaming myself away
But you open your eyes as we go nowhere
I need some shelter
Give me shelter
Hold on you don't even know me
You didn't have to pull me down
So long I don't even know you
I didn't plan to show you
And you keep on molding with an ounce of clay
An all day long you're gonna disagree
Keep on coming in and out to grow
But you know its time and I'm about to roll
Live face, live wars
Live final fallen shore.
Wise up down play.
Locked spine.
The spirits rule, lies down
Rip the cord, spent with the dead.
Lockdown.
Lockdown.
Life's pace. Crowds boss.
View the scum you'll cross.
We're burned in, we're burned out.
We're burned on the fire.
Relax, lie down.
Beg to a different crown.
Wise up, down play.
Locked spine.
The spirits rule, lies down
Rip the cord, spent with the dead.
Live face, live wars
Live final fallen shore.
Relax, lie down.
Beg to a different crown.
Lockdown west side
Sent to a distant land.
Wise up, down play.
Locked spine.
The spirits rule, lies down
Wretched deed done under cover of night
Coast is clear, not a witness in sight
No one will ever know what went down
Hoping to be the on that got away
No trails left, it's a matter of time
This shouldn't even be called a crime
Gataway-car looks shiny and bright
You can't convince of what's wrong or right
RIGHT NOW
YOU RUN
Get locked down
Think thing thru, that's a piece of advice
One day in freedom, now that would be nice
Romance is off, you're someone's bitch
Don't think of me when you're scratching that itch
LOCKDOWN
All is fair game tonight
Forget the deal thought real
You're on you're own
LOCKDOWN
The code ain't got your back in here this time you run
Cellmate driving you insane
Making you miss your old ball and chain
Getaway is tight, not a guard in sight
Plan your escape
Waste
Life life inside
Anguish true wounds open raw
Sounds sliding steel
Sermons known to shackled nation
Man human meat
Senses starved left naked
World in a world
Condemned fused in wuth the underworld
Formed pressed boxed caged
Must escape into oneself
Convicted and thrown away
Undesired sub culture
Pain does not define suffering
[Greg Nice]
Ah ah, ah, uh-uh-ah
Ahh, yeah, ah-ah
C'mon, c'mon
I wanna see ya rock c'mon, c'mon
Ah put yo' hands up high in the sky, okay?
Hands up high in the sky, okay?
Yo' hands up high in the sky, okay?
Put yo' hands up high in the sky, okay?
Put your hands up high in the sky, okay?
Hands up high in the sky, okay?
[Chorus: Greg Nice]
You wanna know who got shit on lockdown?
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Huff and puff and blow the house down
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
You wanna know who got shit on lockdown?
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
[Greg Nice]
Greg N-I-C-E, my style be stickin to your soul like paint
Don't tell me that it ain't
Never ever think about frontin on the man
Man with the dutchmaster in his hand
Boogie Down nucca, I don't bite my tongue
Straight fluent motherfucker
In the summertime it be dimes at the Rucker
From the old school used to play chuck-a-nucca
Tell me how it sound
Let's have a sip on some Gran Marnier
Befo' I hit the skins, I hit the fo'play
Still be catchin the flicks at the Bay
The ace to the deuce, the deuce to the trey
Now was it the hydro, was it the pellet?
Was is cho-co-la-te, was it the jelly?
The BJ holiday keep the record steady
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, call me Crazy Eddie
Greg Nice, I'm turnin it ou-ou-out
Greg Nice cold turnin it ou-ou-out
[Chorus: Greg Nice]
And now you huff and puff and blow the house down
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Wanna know who got shit on lockdown?
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
[Smooth B]
Meet your fate, we make money in every state
Ain't Fred Flintstone, ain't Mr. Slate
Go by the code of Smooth B the great
It's alright if you wanna player hate
(I praise the Lord and keep the faith)
Left hand got the mic, right hand got the dutch
Nice & Smooth comin through in the clutch
Nice & Smooth comin through in the clutch
[Greg Nice]
I remember back I used to eat Hawaii ky
Now I'm older, I mix the indo with thai
So Greg N-I can get real high
So highway high up to the sky
Bad to the bone call me superfly guy
Make sure my people get a piece of the pie
When I count the loot I always multiply
Give me the bomb head, turkey on rye
Or you can catch me at the fish fry fry
[Chorus: Greg Nice]
Wanna know who got shit on lockdown?
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
You huff and puff and blow the house down
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
Wanna know who got shit on lockdown?
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town, what
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town, what
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town, what
Nice & Smooth is in yo' town
[Greg Nice]
Work it out y'all, work it out
Ah work it out y'all, work it out
Your compliant consensual content was adopted because you ignored intent and begged like a dog. You sat when they said roll over play dead. Strengthened their grip; catalyzed them instead of screaming for change. Struggling for fair. I paraphrase now, in hopes and despair. If you act like there's no hope there sure as hell will be no change. If you act like there's no hope there sure as hell will be no change. The choice is ours. The choice is yours. There's always another way. "Don't rock the boat" is engraved inside your head. Good little boys and girls are taught, "Don't smoke... (oops, i mean stir) the pot." Democracy simmers on low, fragile freedom, so please don't touch. If you act like there's no hope there sure as hell will be no change. If you act like there's no hope there sure as hell will be no change!
Last week I spent a night in jail (LA County)
And got a court date with the bail
Won’t do no 20 years to life
I hit a scumbag with a knife
And now the devil’s waiting right outside my door
Last night I hit the road instead (desert highway)
And left a note out on my bed
The border ain’t so far away
Hello M.C. goodbye L.A.
I hear the beer is good in sunny Monterey
Lockdown, lockdown what a pity
Shed a tear for the parole comity
Blow town, blow town from the city
Pack your piece and your steel machete
The fucker wrecked my life
And then he screwed my wife
He stabbed in the back and I his gut
I’m pealing out and turning pale (burning tires)
I’ve got the pigs hard on my tale
Won’t do no 30 years to life
Gonna keep on running till I drop
I swear to Christ I won’t go down without a fight
I knew then I was born to lose (born to lose)
Cause now I’m sporting County blues
And doing 40 years to life
Been trying hard to stay alive
In a bad place where the worst of men’s wearing a crown
Lockdown, lockdown what a pity
Shed a tear for the parole comity
Blow town, blow town from the city
Pack your piece and your steel machete
The fucker wrecked my life
And then he screwed my wife
He stabbed in the back and I his gut
Lockdown, lockdown what a pity
Shed a tear for the parole comity
Blow town, blow town from the city
Pack your piece and your steel machete
The fucker wrecked my life
And then he screwed my wife
One more chance to get my act together
And I don't have that long
She said she'd leave if another girl calls me
Cause she knows I'm doing her wrong
She's so insecure
See it in her eyes
So I don't answer my phone
I'm not even sure
How I make her cry
But I'll leave those girls alone
Shawty knows just what I need
And she keeps me satisfied
She got me on lockdown
On lockdown
On lockdown
I don't ever want her to leave
Just to keep her by my side
I'll be on lockdown
On lockdown
Lockdown
She's the type I'd make it last forever
She's sexy and so damn strong
Ain't nothin like when we're together
Shes the melody to my song
She's so insecure
See it in her eyes
So I don't answer my phone
I'm not even sure
How I make her cry
But I'll leave those girls alone
Shawty knows just what I need
And she keeps me satisfied
She got me on lockdown
On lockdown
On lockdown
I don't ever want her to leave
Just to keep her by my side
I'll be on lockdown
On lockdown
[Chorus]
Yo, they got us locked down, in a cell under the ground
Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
Yo, they got us locked down, in a cell under the ground
Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
Every artist locked down, in a cell under the ground
Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
Every rapper locked down, in a cell under the ground
Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
[Dice Raw]
Man, it used to feel like hip-hop had a lock on my soul
And a deal was the only way I'd get parole
I got knocked years ago when I wrote my first rhyme
Ever since then, I been locked down doin' time
Payin' dues with a lot to gain, but more to lose
I play the game, but they keep changin' the rules
The studio's a holding cell for lyrical criminals
Doing demo tapes, hold mics like shanks
Battlin', that's like a fight in the yard
Lines chase niggas down like Lieutenant Gerard
But I love it there, and some say that I'm institutionalized
Freestyling's our only form of exercise
I don't lift weights, lift my mind to a higher state
If your shit's wack, you just can't relate
I have nightmares of bein' back on the streets
But when I wake up in my cell, I feel relief
Bein' on tour is like bein' transferred to jail
And the companies reattempt to boost your sales
In my last case, they came at me with a deal
The D.A., I mean A&R;, said "You can still keep shit real
But instead of Raw, be Dice Chill
Give us some hits with some commercial appeal"
I refused, then sent back to my cell
And from next time, a poet's memoirs from jail
[Chorus]
[Steve G's]
The prisoner, verbal incision
They strangle me with barbed wires of fire, fuck a mainstream vision
The label is the feds, they wanna find me and sign me
With a market and promotion behind me, but they slimy
My cellmate Dice Raw is nice, y'all
I assassinate rehearsal, if I go commercial I'll slice y'all
Studio's solitary, so I'm soliterrorizin' MCs
Steve G's, freeze, melt, refreeze
Mics get raped on my cell block, we battle for commissary
Parole boards for adversary
I lost the trial, I lost the case
What a waste, judge threw the rhyme book in my face
But my brain left and right is like the unstoppable engine
Locked down, pushin' for mainstream like syringes
Fuck a C.O., my shit's gone gold like C3PO
Ask Kelo, he know we go T-O
The top, this is cell block hip-hop
Yo, the underground keep the shank hot
Locked down with MCs doin' life bids
Beware when the pen zags and zigs
[Chorus]
[Black Thought]
Aiyyo, it was far from warm, the middle of a storm
And 5th Dynasty was on our way to perform
It was me, Steve G's, Dice and the Quick Drawn
And we got pulled over, we knew something was wrong
The law wasn't concerned with license and registration
Insurance information, or our point of destination
But peep, they got us up out the Jeep five deep
And took a look and saw the mics up under the seat
And start'd snappin', flippin' and shit like "Who's rappin'?"
Got on the radio and signaled back to the captain
Who warned them we was known for action
"Use caution, and get them contracts from when they brought us back" and
The fingerprints matched and linked identities
D.T.s was like "Shit, it's the 5th MCs"
Ain't no escapin', locked us in a lab and started tapin'
Mandatory, the judge said "Fuck jury deliberation"
Maximum incarceration
In these camps for concentration we call radio stations
A place where hip-hoppin' is against the law
Forever locked down within a lower corridor
Of sound, where they sniff out cells with bloodhounds
Pure MCs, MCs' remains is found
Pick the park when a record executive's around
Yo, we bubble to the top notch round
Now come over here
Let me apologize
Who knew she would be here
Show that my surprise
..baby but i know it's crazy
But don't worry 'cause i told you before
Chorus:
There's nobody else that i would rather be ..you
And nothing can't compare to the love that you share
Ooh ..i'm .. for the long ride
Baby i will lockdown end up
..wanna be free this is what i need
How .. come over here
Let me apologize
The way i spoke my ..
Wasn't there .. and ..
girl don't worry cause i ..in the way
2 x Chorus:
There's nobody else that i would rather be ..you
And nothing can't compare to the love that you share
Ooh ..i'm .. for a long ride
Baby i will lockdown end up
..wait feels
I will lockdown end up
I wanna be free this is what i need
Baby i will lockdown end up
..wait feels
I will lockdown end up
Break out!
It's time for a shake down
Stake out,
Watch the doors and we'll sneak out
And I'll still be here sober,
When this is over
It's just like I told her,
"You wait till you're older"
Crying,
Almost feels like you're dying
Chokin',
On those words that we're spoke
And I'm almost through
With everything
That I once thought was true
And all that pulls us through
Has faded into shades
Faded into shades, of you...
Mistakes that I have been
Are nothing like the pain, I have seen
Let's leave it all behind
Escape into the light
And give it one more try, one more try
And give it one more try, one more try
Burn it down and let it smelter,
Break it down and watch it crumble
Tear it down, ya we'll destroy you,
Everything has been untrue
Tell me!
One day this will be
Something that I'll believe,
Alone to find my peace
Shout loud!
Bolt the doors, it's a lockdown
Hush now,
All these moments we've missed out
Tell me something I don't know,
Show a safe place I can go
I need you now more than you know,
Let's leave this now
Just go, go, go...
We'll roll
We'll go!
We'll roll
Trade it all for separation
Is this what's left for our nation?
Tell me lies, tell the truth,
Give me hope but have no proof
There's nothing left to long for,
I'm happy in my loneliness
I'm broken by your ways,
I'm erasing every phase
Go find yourself a quiet place,
Safe when you're away
No nothing here could make me stay,
No nothing here could make me stay
I'm only free,
Baby when I'm with you
I can't describe the feeling
All I know is it you're in control of me
Girl you got something different that not the other women
I can't deny that you got hold on me
Pre chorus:
I don't wanna lose you never without you
I don't know what to do or where to go
I just gotta let you know
I don't ever hurt you you ain't got worry
You can let your problem go
Just so you know
Chorus:
I'm keeping your love on lockdown, lockdown ooh
I never wanna let you escape
I'm keeping your love on lockdown, lockdown ooh
I never wanna let you escape
I just can't be without you whenever I'm around you I shut down
No matter where I'm supposed to be
And girl when I'm not with you, you know that I miss you
Or I'll be there whenever you call on me
[Pre Chorus:]
[Chorus:]
Baby I will never wanna leave you no no no no no hey
I will never leave you
Baby I will never wanna leave you no no no no no hey
I don't wanna let you go
Baby I will never leave
Baby I will never wanna leave you no no no no no hey
Baby I will never wanna leave you no no no no no hey
When I'm with you I feel so alive inside
My hearts emotions I can't describe
This energy between us so real it can't be denied
I want to know you more than I already do
Cause every time I find myself close to you
Electricity flows through me been shocked now set me free
I'll lock the groove down
(I'll lock the groove down)
Let me take you on and on
So we can move round
(I'll lock the groove down)
And we'll make it all night long
I'll lock the groove down
(I'll lock the groove down)
Let me take you on and on
So we can move round
(I'll lock the groove down)
And we'll make it all night long
(I'll take you on till the groove is gone)
When you touch me all my fears disappear
I want to be with you now
Can't you hear
In your eyes locked in time is right where I want to stay
Now I understand that it goes both ways
I want to hear you say it
Don't be afraid
We have so much more we don't know where this love could go
Oh what joy I'll bring, oh what joy I'll bring if you let me
Of this joy I sing of this joy I sing won't you let me
I'll lock the groove down
(I'll lock the groove down)
Let me take you on and on
(I'll take you on to the break of dawn)
So we can move round
(I'll lock the groove down)
And we'll make it all night long
(I'll take you on to grove is grove is)
I'll lock the groove down
(I'll lock the groove down)
Let me take you on and on
(I'll take you on to the break of dawn)
So we can move round
(I'll lock the groove down)
And we'll make it all night long
(I'll take you on to grove is gone)
(Verse)
Look out, everyone,
I've been pushed hard for surround.
Take back they loved,
It's a lockdown.
Touch out if we want,
Home is the city, it's gone, I be lose it
And we took back what I want,
Another lockdown.
Freeze out if we want
Love is the city, a war and imma lose it
Can I get back what I want
In a lost town?
(Chorus)
I know I was born just be near these streets and entry speecing
Someone's situation there's nobody's hope
An education that I still don't know.
(Verse)
Coast line and beyond it's the look out to what's gone
Right now there's no better in this town.
Coast out tonight, help me put out of life
In this town's define me in this town.
(Chorus)
I know I was born just be near these streets and entry speecing
Someone's situation there's nobody's hope
An education that I still don't know.
(Verse)
Look out, everyone,
Freezed out and we was
Give back, come on, lockdown.
Touch out, everyone,
Be fast, cause we're gone
Come back, it's on, I never lock down,
You make my heart beat fast when you enter the room
and I can't hold back around a guy like you
and when I think about you baby I can't help myself
I want your body just for me and nobody else
so if she thinks she's got a chance to be with you
she's wrong
I've got you on lockdown I threw away the key
and she's never gonna steal you away from me
I've got you locked down I'm gonna make her see
that she'll never have you cuz she's got nothin on me
(I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you)
Nobody's buyin what you're sellin so don't waste my time
You better give up now girl, the boy is mine
So I wonder when you'll realize your time is up
I can speak for him and I that girl we've had enough
I can smell the desperation and the air is thick
A girl like you should call a medic cuz you make me sick
I've got you on lockdown I threw away the key
and she's never gonna steal you away from me
I've got you locked down I'm gonna make her see
that she'll never have you cuz she's got nothin on me
(I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you)
So you and I we run this town and I'll never let another try to bring me down so let's dance
Let's dance the night away
You and I we run this town and I'll never let another try to bring me down so let's dance
Let's dance the night away
I've got you on lockdown I threw away the key
and she's never gonna steal you away from me
I've got you locked down I'm gonna make her see
that she'll never have you cuz she's got nothin on me
I've got you on lockdown I threw away the key
and she's never gonna steal you away from me
I've got you locked down I'm gonna make her see
that she'll never have you cuz she's got nothin on me
I've got you on lockdown I threw away the key
and she's never gonna steal you away from me
I've got you locked down I'm gonna make her see
that she'll never have you cuz she's got nothin on me
(I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you on lockdown baby, I've got you)
Blood on the pedals, blood on the grips
Steel leveled, chest level smear
My lips let them slip into a
Smile because now after
awhile it's all we're seen to do.
'Cause the business is as business does
Trash is trash until it's sealed from above
and left on to the corner of your mind to disappear.
Lockdown the remains.
Machine works best when the machine's not shy,
Trash is trash but trash from cash must divide.
Body bent body doubled, dismissed by time
A 5 to 9 will serve the 9 to 5.
