The Sidewalks chords by J-LIVE
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I grew up on the chill side
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and no big deal side
Stayin' alive was no problem,
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the Upper East Side project some condos some
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where in between downtown and Harlem
It's not quite accurate to
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claim how either side
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was ever either or this or all that
Some project apartments
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be decked out fat,
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some condos still packed
with roaches and rats
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But if New York is a concrete jungle,
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my old earth kept me in a zoo
where it wasn't so wild
Who wouldn't want to find a way
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to make it safe for a child?
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As a teenager
I learned to escape for a while,
but you know what they say
Being out of your element
Was a giraffe, monkey, lion, or elephant
In school they said I was on the right track
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But in the school of hard knocks
I'd have got left back
Nowadays no knocks get left,
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my left knock's back
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Some say might makes right,
so my rights ain't light
But whether giving beat downs
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or getting down on beat
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You're not likely to see me
or consider me street
But from the sidewalks
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I see how it's rough out there
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I see the extra large dosage
of life ain't fair
From the sidewalks
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I see how the gas don't last
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In the streets and you crash
when you go too fast
From the South Walks,
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trust shit is just as real
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Even if your lifestyle
ain't kill or be killed
From the South Walks,
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Chris Rock got you gassed
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But I'm that smart yard nigga
that'll whoop your ass
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Yo, I love New York, I am New York
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The way I spin, break beats,
make beats and talk
The way I eat, sleep, drink,
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fuck, spit and walk
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The way I build and destroy,
cause that's how I was taught
I'm feelin' Philly for now,
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I don't get home sick
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I'm still close enough to the Yanks,
Giants and Knicks
It's still city to city,
just different bricks
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See, I don't divide by places,
man, fuck that shit
It's a different state,
but similar state of mind
See, every city got the
same theme on the line
A battleground for the lives
of the dumb and blind
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You heard? Please believe
that it takes all kinds
We all gotta get over in our own way
Place to stay, peace to lay, and a payday
I get mine's the legit way
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But no tellin' what I do to protect mine
So you best respect mine
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Kindness for weakness, faith for fear
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Common mistakes are made
until the cards are played
But don't step to my door
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thinking something is sweet
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Or we won't even have to take
it all the way to the street
Cause from the sidewalks,
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corners that I clean at home
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Never fuck with the sanctity of my home
From the sidewalk,
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I'm from New York and Philly
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So from Broadway to Broad Street,
you got to feel me
From the sidewalk,
I know how to hold it down
On my own when I come through
and visit your town
From the sidewalk,
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Chris Rock got some gas
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But I'm that smarty -arm nigga
that'll whoop your ass
From the sidewalks,
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I've been watching hip -hop grow
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And vice versa,
from school battles to my own show
I watch skills evolve,
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and the next up blow
Motivated by the love for
the art and the dough
I seen people influenced
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by the next man's flow
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To the point that it controls
where their content go
But if it's 8 million stories
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and a handful of rappers
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We can't all be pimps, players,
and gun clappers
It sounds sexy coming out to stereo,
right?
But then you wonder
why we still getting stereotyped
Like we a whole generation
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of wanna -be thugs
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and soon -to -be hoes
Like that's just how I go
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But everybody in the city ain't ghetto
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We all not slinging rocks in Totem Meadow
And everybody in the ghetto
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ain't gangsta
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Waiting for a reason to stomp,
shoot, and shank ya
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And every gangster in the ghetto
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ain't stupid as you
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Advocating that bullshit
the way that you do
Like there's no consequences
or repercussions
Like we don't even think first
before we start busting
But whatever's clever,
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son, I let them tell it
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Why should I play the role of zealot
just for y 'all to repel it?
I'd rather rep for the rest of us
with real talk
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So I'm out, like that, J
Trans been alive on the sidewalks
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I'm from the sidewalks
The Sidewalks
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