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Streets Is Watching chords by
Jay-z
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Key: A minorBPM: 92
Verse 1
Am
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Uh-huh uh uh huh uh

Gee-gee-geyeah
Dm
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Am
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Baby, Baby, watching, streets

Uh-huh uh uh huh uh

Live from Brooklyn

Uh-huh uh

uh
Dm
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The streets is watching
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Check it, check

Uh-huh uh, uh, check
Verse 2
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Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless

But if you shoot me,

then you're famous
Dm
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What's a nigga to do?
Am
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When the streets is watching,

blocks keep clocking

Waiting for you to break,

make your first mistake

Can't ignore it,

that's the fastest way to get extorted

But my time is money, at twenty-five,
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I I can't afford it
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Beef as sorted like Godiva chocolates

Niggas you bought it,

I pull the slide back and cock it

Plan aborted,

you and your mans get a pass

This rhyme, you're operating
Dm
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on bitch time
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Am
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Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells,

all y'all niggas

Tryna do is hurt my sales,

and stop trips to John Meneill

The type to start a beef

then run to the cops

When I see you in the street

got one in the drop

When I'd rather be on tour

getting a hundred a pop

Taking pictures with some bitches

in front of the drop

The streets is watching
Verse 3

When the, streets is watching Blocks keep clocking
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Waiting for you to break,

make your first mistake
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Can't ignore it
Verse 4
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Now it's hard not to kill niggas

It's like a full time job not to kill niggas,
Dm
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can't chill
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The streets is watching
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When you froze your arms
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Niggas want to test you when

your gun goes warm

Can't get caught with your feet up,

got to keep your heat up

Sweet niggas running 'round

swearing shit is sweeter

Once you're tagged lame the game

is follow the leader

Everybody want a piece of your

scrilla, so you gotta keep it realer

Kidnap niggas wanna steal you

Broke niggas don't want no cash,
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they just wanna kill ya
Am
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For the name, niggas don't know

the rules

Disrespecting the game,

want you to blow your cool

Force your hand,

of course that man's plotting
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Smarten up, the streets is watching,
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it's on
Verse 5
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When the, streets is watching

Blocks keep clocking

Waiting for you to break,

make your first mistake
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Am
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Can't ignore it
Verse 6
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My street mentality, flip bricks forever

Know me and money,

we like armed co-defendants

Nigga Nigga we stick together

Shit whatever for this cheddar ran

my game into the ground

Hustle harder until secret indictment

time came around

And you can look up and down

the streets and I can't be found

Put in twenty-four hour hour shifts but,

that ain't me now
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Got a face too easy to trace,

niggas mouths got slow leaks

Had to hire a team of workers,

couldn't play those streets

See out of space like Mercury,

you jerking me? Hectic

Had to call upon my wolves
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to send niggas the mes sage
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I said this, "Let's play fair and

we can stay here

I'm trying to transform you boys to

men like daycare"

Ay, there's money to be made and

niggas got the picture

Stopped playing with my paper
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and we got richer
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Am
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Then hard times fell upon us

Half of my staff had warrants

The other half in the casket lay dormant

I felt like life was cheating me

For the first time in my life

I was getting money

But it was like my conscience
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was eating me
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Was this a lesson God teaching me?

Was he saying that

I was playing the game straight from Hell

from which few came back?

Like bad coke, pimp or die,

was my mind frame bad?

Was niggas thinking simplify
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was turning cocaine crack?
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Ain't a whole lot of brain to that

Just trying to maintain a stack

And not collide like two trains

that's on the same track

But get my life together like

the oils I bring back

In the bottom of the pot

where the water gets hot

Got my transporter take it across

the border then stop

To set up shop with a quarter of rock

Here's the plan

For three straight weeks,

niggas slaughtered the block

But you know the game is food,
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it fucked up me and my dudes
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Am
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One drought can wipe a nigga out,

faster than the cops

And this unstable way

of living just had to stop

Half of my niggas got time,

we done real things

By '94 became the subject of
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half of y'all niggas rhymes
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Public apologies to the families of those

caught up in my shit
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But that's the life for us lost souls

brought up in this shit

The life and times of a nigga mind,

excited with crime

And the lavish luxuries that just
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excited my mind
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I figured, "shit,
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why risk myself I just write it in rhymes

And let you feel me,

and if you don't like it then fine?"

The mind state of a nigga who

boosted the crime rate

So high in one city they send
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National Guards to get me

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