While we are on the subject of hard wor... I worked my way up by hard work...re, but I got there by hard work...Work of the hardest kind I been down and I been out...and I worked my way down...The hardest work I ever...And I done just the same with eighty si...Harnessed some of the wildest and crazies...I's bit by hungry dogs and I w...By rattlesnakes and water moccasins on two river bottoms...eighteen miles over the mountains... of bad corn, I cut the sticker weeds... of errands, played the fiddle for nine...hree deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, ...bit, poison Ivy and the seven year itch...And the blind staggers, I w...ple of times struck by lightning, struck by Congress...Struck by friends and kinfolks Well as by three cars on highw... I been hit and run down...ed around, I'm just sittin' here

but now that's not the case ...urns to his wife in the evening, he says "H...n out my car window sittin' in the pouring rain ...help you get up off the floor ...Of the flood of kisses you hold back by the way that you despai...You gotta come down and just set me fre

Tonight we focus on the city of Vallejo in the state of California... were found dead at the water front ...This brings the homicide rate in the state of California to one of the ...highest in the nation ...The state of California...Murder weapons in the river bodies found in the alleys ...Bring the yellow tape ...some real niggas on the block ... pronounced dead on the scene ...Bring back the homies that I lost ...let that alcohol be the reason ... a little liquor on the concrete ... my dead homies and the ones who ain't gone see the streets ...Locked up with the rest of the locs ...But whatever the reason my folks are walkin the yard ...t in it gettin shot by ...Standards on the block ... hand on yo nina in the valley ...Or get dumped in the alley ...cause killa kali is the state of the drive by) ...cause killa kali is the state of the drive by) ...The killins on ...Walked in the party 10 deep and o...I wonder whose the next nigga ...I think the game is on its last...cause out here they quick to take ...ell a nigga shit in the 9-5 ...a doin niggas in on the side ...o hood buckin fools down ... mutherfuckin pants down ...ith one eye open in the valley ...Sittin on with yo face in the dash ...two in the back of yo head ...u got them fools on the track pullin out gl...Its all in the game ...Its for the money ...You know the scratch but now we ... on what a nigga in the hood faces ...s let they hoes mow down they homies on the real beitch ...Caught up in the cross fire when the... hand on ya nina in the valley

Danny and the Juniors set a groov...oot" quick right as the song ...Danny and the Juniors set a shoot stuck 'em down in the bloot, spoot, ...By greckins you put a ...ll throw you across the river. ...ll throw me across? The what? The Pontiac? ...ll throw you across the river. I threw a silver d...When you hear the countdown, everyone...Sittin in my ca ...Here we go ...All the way from Hawthorne ...ond I'm gonna go to the piano

re there once was a river...rops are bending in the heat...When you move to the beat of hungry...Yet the cool of the night...Reveals the spark of the sweeter life...Sittin' a grey day leanin'... ain't about to let the blues over come her...Well it's a gunshot down...Here in the heart of the city...By the stained cracked pla...By the cold radiator... ain't about to let the blues over come him... ain't about to let the blues over come the

Straight from the back of the game I rock it...In the woods with the S-K I'm cockin'...Good in the south like Pastor T...Sittin' back and sippin' m...Hit you in the left eye...Hold the change...To the DJ's...Everybody hop in the Cadillac... back I'ma throttle the Chevrolet's...With the bottom won't you roll the window down...On the eight O eight come ...o better way to get down...Said I'd be here in five...ou don't believe it by now...uck it just lean to the side...Lead me to the door check my list...Meet me at the floor catch this fi...Or meet me at the store catch this li...Moving through the alleyway...Look at the people tripping...I have to be the hardest I got diamo...hen I roll 'em in a river then I...Watch what the fuck you hold up

ized and way out in the sticks ...Remember to keep the De La/De La/Native ...in the mix .../bricks/from 718 to the 51-6 ...Remember to keep the Mos Def/Native Tong...in the mix ...y'all, get live get down ...The De La's gonna do the body good like whea...oes, Mos Def bought the brews ...Sittin indian squats to ma...See I'm out to get the corn like in them r...Snappin by the pain as a crew hear the gain ...I'ma show it in the house all perimeter...This is the body Mos Def style ...We are the killer combination with the size to administer ...the beatdown to swell u...We got the big brother beat, y...But we be easy on the cut, no mistakes al...ife be nuttin but a river son I'm swimmin ups...layin wait up, with the data servin your ea... to confirmation of the nation's most ...Inhale to smoke the fiends, while bangi...Rated at the high point of the mass ...Rippin MC's at the top of a class, occ...ig brother beat for the wide wide world ...Did the hustle with a coupl...I wrote in the dark so I could fee...Heard the big brother beat, g...tors invented, with the heat ...s*, so when I shine the light crabs wince ...Manifestin for the future here in the present tense ...No doubt, I love the sound biggin out of...Son I want the little kids bangin

ized and way out in the sticks ...Remember to keep the De La/De La/Native ...in the mix .../bricks/from 718 to the 51-6 ...Remember to keep the Mos Def/Native Tong...in the mix ...y'all, get live get down ...The De La's gonna do the body good like whea...oes, Mos Def bought the brews ...Sittin indian squats to ma...See I'm out to get the corn like in them r...Snappin by the pain as a crew hear the gain ...I'ma show it in the house all perimeter...This is the body Mos Def style ...We are the killer combination with the size to administer ...the beatdown to swell u...We got the big brother beat, y...But we be easy on the cut, no mistakes al...ife be nuttin but a river son I'm swimmin ups...layin wait up, with the data servin your ea... to confirmation of the nation's most ...Inhale to smoke the fiends, while bangi...Rated at the high point of the mass ...Rippin MC's at the top of a class, occ...ig brother beat for the wide wide world ...Did the hustle with a coupl...I wrote in the dark so I could fee...Heard the big brother beat, g...tors invented, with the heat ...s*, so when I shine the light crabs wince ...Manifestin for the future here in the present tense ...No doubt, I love the sound biggin out of...Son I want the little kids bangin