Jay-Z - The Streets Lyrics

All these years went by & this is STILL 🔥🔥💯💯

i respect jay z he made himself what a boss

Gully gully issh.

Labi Siffre Wasn't Kidding When He Said "Remember My Song" Cause Now Everybody Is Sampling I Got The From 1975

"The mindstate of a nigga who boosted the crime rate so high in one city, they sent the national guards to get me" This bar blows my mind every time I hear this song. Can't get no more gangster than that..

Wonder how many cars Jay's bought since becoming a rapper

Easily biggies best tune

coolchilli lol I see what you did there

So those vests are some old fashion coming back? 👌👌

Jigga🔥🔥💪💯

😇🙏😘!

Standing on his square. 5% shit

Happy birthday HOV 🎉

So many 💎 in this song.

Happy 50th...😎

Happy birthday Hov! 🎂

BIG L > Jay-Z

“Jigga with the Rollie and the vest”

Delfino Miranda 👑🏁🏁🏁👑

Jay z went stupid on this woah

Make a beard tutorial video

If anyone wondered where the sample is from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKISdd2mKzU (Labi Siffre - I Got The...)

BEAT IS SUPER DUPER DOPE 👌

This song is fuckin dope. Holy shit

Yess ..love this Jay Z😍

This is the Birth of trap music at its finest!!!

This the Jay who the guy

Labi Siffre - I Got The...

is there an uncensored version of this song ANYWHERE?? link?

This nigga here man..prime time Jay...a problem.. sheesh!

Psalms23 N da Streets is watching a prayer for da Gee'S in this streets... #GooseBumps💯

Damn jayz in his prime, wasn't a joke

Niggaz are starting to get what he's talking about then...now!.Shits crazy!

And what's crazy this wasnt even his prime!

More Like his Peak, But Damn.

Labi Siffre - I Got The... (1975)

Crazy how 1 song was samples twice. Dr. Dre sampled it also on "Hi my name is"

Pure gold

@Amelia Both this and My Name Is were censored in order for the sample to be cleared. This song just had to replace profanity with blank spots. My Name Is had to change some of its lyrics.

Look, if I shoot you, I'm brainless
But if you shoot me, then you're famous
What's a nigga to do?
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, I can't afford it
Beef assorted 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 on bitch time
Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells, all y'all niggas
Trying to 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
When the, streets is watching
Blocks keep clocking
Waiting for you to break, make your first mistake
Can't ignore it
Now it's hard not to kill niggas
It's like a full time job not to kill niggas, can't chill
The streets is watching
When you froze your arms
Niggas want to test you whenyour 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 want to steal you
Broke niggas don't want no cash, they just want to kill ya
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
Smarten up, the streets is watching, it's on
When the, streets is watching
Blocks keep clocking
Waiting for you to break, make your first mistake
Can't ignore it
My street mentality: flip bricks forever
Know me and money, we like armed co-defendants
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 shifts but, that ain't me now
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 jerkin me? Hectic
Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message
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 and we got richer
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 was eating me
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 was turning cocaine crack?
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, it fucked up me and my dudes
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 half of y'all niggas rhymes
Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my shit
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 excited my mind
I figured, "shit, 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 National Guards to get me

Literally the only good song jay z ever had. Jay z aint shit

Lol every single jay z song on youtube there's a comment about how it's the only good jay z song.

Jigga that nigga .

Drug song** life of a drug dealer** "hottest line** "why risk myself, ill just write it in rhymes" aka sell drugs through rhymes/ rapping bout it.. Jayz** smart guy/best rapper ever

Fucking Legendary amazing lyrics flow sick video also Jay-Z the great

I remember this rapper.
Oh 90's was a great time boys and girls.

Greatest rapper of all times. Period

I dont understand people who cant see it** lol

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jay z 💯💯

This shit is fire

classic shit

THAT OLD CAT SCHOOLING THE YOUTH IN THE BACKGROUND WHAT MOVIE IS THAT..."YOU TAKE IT OR YOU THROW IT AWAY IT DONT MATTER";...TOUGH IS A HABIT YOU GOT TO KEEP YOURSELF MEAN!

It's from the movie "Sleepers" starring Brad Pitt and Robert DeNiro

thank jigga for the underworld jewels

Just 381k's views that let me know these young cats dnt know shit Abt real hip hop. but go to the new bullshit rap so they called it and u have over a million views. this new generation need a reality damn check. glad I wasn't born in the 90's, 2000's era. they so lost when it come to hip hop!!!!

third verse is mayhem...

Jay z absolutely has true poetic and soul in this song.. very well done my good sir /applaud

NOT A BITCH COULD do it! NOT EVEN my IMPERSONATOR!

tru..... ICU2, funn. y

incredible song, classic shit!

''When you froze your arms
Niggas want to test you when your gun goes warm''

what hat is jigga wearin in this?

back when he was jigga not hova

I say this too but mine is more like jigga not "young hov" cause he always called himself jay hova even on reasonable doubt but he started screamin "young!" Like on blueprint or so

Michael Jay he never called himself Hova until 98 on streets is watching (celebration) and volume 2 (ride or die)

NEVER sealed it bro but he tried though

about 400 mil, kanye west, and beyonce

What happened to that jay z here?

Elticol0co he got paid🤷🏼‍♀️

@shayla crawford He is older and wiser.

how about making some money bitch call 888-563-1932

Like most Rap, the music is great like a melting pot of ideas, the lyrics too- but for me the same old one-tone vocal delivery is 90% of the time a turn-off. De la Soul being the exception.

he replied with a interview freestyle as promised, but it was shit. He admits it in an interview that he got wiped the floor with.

It wasnt wack it just wasnt proper for nas but blueprint2 was but it was over by that time and he didnt say he got wiped the floor with u know good n well jay wouldnt say that, he was saying nas went off the deep end sayin off the wall stuff like he gay n lips etc. If u ask me ether was juvenile.. Jay killed him in one verse..

straight the fuck up, j back in the 90's fuck, never again

this is the jay z that i could put in the same category as the legend nas, jay z doesnt spit material like this no more he dummed down for the dollars just like he said himself in died in your arms tonight remix

He been better than nas tho from jump.. In my opinion reasonable 1000 times better than illmatic and album for album too if u line all jayzs vs nas albums up, nas would run out of albums and a few would be as corny as a few of tupacs were also

You steady talking about his lips that ain't never gon' change. What about his Net Worth?

streets is watching soundtrack

Which album is this from?

whostolemyTV in my lifetime Vol 1

It's not my fault he can use an entire stick of chap stick in one use..

ahhhh..... Classic!

Classic street anthem...A "Hustlaz Blueprint"...HOV!!!!

Why would a grown ass man "fix his lips"? You talking about plastic surgery? That's gay as fuck...

Nas did.

Your opinion is nil n void if you don't know about "Got yourself a gun" and as Tyler said "superugly" and blueprint2!

who cares if he has big ass camel lips hes fucking beyonce.

lol...word

Notice how when Jay was coming in the store, He recognize them niggas, and with the left hand let them know he was "HOLDIN" when he put it behind his back under his leather..Real player shit!!

Remember when they used to wear Bullerproof vest instead is skinny jeans.

@Quickest Thang Walkin ☝️ - Wears size 12 12 skinny jeans

This was probably one of the best autobiographic videos from a hustla in rap.Everything he says in this video is exactly how big willy's feel when they're doing it. Its a fact that there are wars and stick up kids that capitalize on drugs in the hood. This is Jay-Z's story about dealing with being a BOSS in that life. From where he's from compared to where he is, i'd say he did a great job of getting out of that life, or at least applying it to something BIGGER than drugs. G's up!

Classic Joint...

You def gotta put Jay with Battle Rap he's known in BK as a sick battle rapper

whoa there man. Jay z is way more intricate and tells better stories.

Why Nas is better than Jay-Z
Deep message >>>>> Punchlines

SAY-THAT-SSHH... very well said,u. Your statement should be immortalized.

Picture Nas spittin' this. It sounds just like him. This guy's so generic.

EPIC comment, sir!

lol ok kid nice effort though you got heart..maybe you need a gimmick ?

I just know i listened to you and i want my time and my view back

in J's book. His words were "You J is the whole album gonna sound this dope?" Then he went to write that night lol Dope ass competitiveness among gr8s

Checkout the gift and the curse off the Blueprint 2... He murdered Nas! The boy Esco's best diss track against Jay-Z wasn't Ether. Thats just my opinion. The song is called killing for dolo.... i think!

I read somewhere that Biggie digged this track from jay

Yeah i understood that nigga lol. Like my dad taught me to comprehend and talk like that but i was raised differently haha. I Enjoy seeing people recognize stuff like that..Cause some people just be like why you talk like that and what the fuck that mean haha

jay-z replied with "superugly" and sealed it with "blueprint 2". hova FTW

To be honest... that's what all people say about their favorite rappers... I'm not a nas fan.. i love rap in general. i like jay z, nas ,2pac, biggie, rakim, big L, ice cube/T etc... 2pac nas and biggie were/are the 3 greatest... remember ether ? jayz had no comeback for that.. btw, that's just my top 3 in my opinion.. you can have your opinion but you can't change mine.

Fantabulous

Damnnn I wish I had all them Nikes he bought

worded perfectly

Agreed. The competitive nature is from the street mentality and also the fact that we are just human. You can't compare the 2 in terms of who is better because that is subjective. As far as I see it, Jay-Z and Nas were both brilliant in their own right. Honestly, I listen to more Nas when I'm puffin and in deep thought processes, and I listen to Jay when I am inspired to grind/work.

Thanks bro lol

I use it as a reference because it applies to the total lack of appreciation some of ya'll seem to have for Hip-Hop as a whole. U pick one artist, dick ride, then bash every artist who does anything differently. Im not getting my opinion from Jay, I share an opinion with Jay. Pretty weak argument bruh.

Sauce Money used to ghostwrite for Jay-Z, so fuck all this theory of yours. Nas is an MC, Jay-Z is a rapper.