| * multiple gunshots * 
 [intro: inspectah deck]
 Yo, when we do this, we do it for real
 We do it for the love, we do it for the money
 For the cash, for the women, the birds
 We do it for the foundation, for the people
 No matter how we do it, we do it for the cause
 Yea, yo
 
 [chorus: inspectah deck]
 What you in for? what you live for?
 What you die for? I hope it's for the cause
 ..
 What you work for? what you stand for?
 What you strive for? I hope it's for the cause
 
 [inspectah deck]
 Inspectah, rhyme beretta nine in ya sector
 Wet the scenery with extreme measures
 Supreme lecture, bless the heads, you dare enter
 The 9th chamber, dance with the mind bender
 Surrender your thrown, there's no room for pretenders
 Bystander pollyin worldwide with nine members
 Distributin, my verbal sharp shootin
 While I execute the deadliest moves with fine tunin
 Duel of the iron mic bound to spark fusion
 Movin at the speed of light, nice at what I'm doin
 Drop it in ya brain like spice, without the five mics
 Heads roll off hilltops when I strike
 Sniper aim, stick you up for your price of fame
 Like the flame, watch you get hot inside the game
 Recognize my name, i.n.s., your highness
 I rep for live sets, place ya bets, make ya threats
 There's no cure, even the experts are stunned
 My work is done as soon as I've just begun *echo*
 
 [chorus]
 
 [streetlife]
 Strictly, streetlife, I never play a fan of the fame
 Just build on my name, and master the slang
 I'm hittin harder than a lot of artists in the game
 I'm lyrically inclined, rockin just the same
 Than any mc who ship platinum or gold
 And only recoup to pay back what you sold
 Over budget your video, got pimped like a hoe
 My niggas move slo-mo like robotic clones
 I'd rather be alive and paid, than dead broke
 My life is like a thin line, on a tight rope
 A fiend with no dope, wrong way to provoke
 The man behind the scope, tucked, ready to smoke
 >from the same place you from, different hood, the same slum
 Mother's third seed, father's first son
 Bastard child runnin wild, livin foul
 Ran into some juvenile niggas in design
 P.l.o. style, sign my name on the dotten line
 Your beef is mine, dangerous minds combine, we all carry nines *echo*
 
 [chorus]
 
 [inspectah deck]
 Hitman like thomas hurns, bustin while the weed burns
 Shorty, sixteen, yearns for my crew to take turns
 I'm a loose cannon, medically examined
 Found deadly as a plague, soon to spread like famine
 Splurgin, livin out the dirty version
 Throwin rocks at the ghetto birds circlin the urban
 Workin overtime, you notice the shine
 Niggas scope mine, models won't work capone nine
 
 [streetlife]
 We travel in pairs, you got the front, I watch the rear
 Got money on my mind this year, by all means
 Put an end to your cold stairs, crush your small dreams
 What you hear is the truth, fuck what you used to
 I provide you with street music you can ride to
 Push through, sound blastin through the sun roof
 Street surfer, lurkin, thirsty for the loot
 I'm in it to fuck fans and rock mic stands
 I work for cash and fans, and die for the clan
 
 
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