De La Soul - The Corner lyrics

[Dave:]

Yeah, the 15 millionth time, 15 and 1

Check it out

Yo Com, how you rhyme to this slow shit

Yeah yeah, check it out

Yo memories of the corner, we huddled and stayed in trouble

Guzzled on 40 O-Z's and played the double and back

We doublin crack, no wonder why they fear us

We cussin cause our mommas couldn't hear us

Young lovers'll cuddle at 15 shit, they seen the struggle so

That makes him a man con-sidered he got plans but

She don't understand that this is where them fools bust at

Same corner where she go and catch the school bus at

It ain't changed a bit, we stand circle and spit bars

Cigarette butts scattered like glass shattered

and pops he play the corner 'til his day comes, DAMN~!

Ambulances on the corner but hey, now it's offi-cial

Cisco was the daze them cups of E&J

Went down and hit a warm spot even in the winter's cold

We had our snorkel and our winter playboys on

These are the corners we was sent to play boys on

Our socks is pockets, the guns is rockets

It's where the after school fight was at, brand new bikes was at

Fila suits, Kangols and new Nikes was at

Same corner is today's same yesterday

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I wish that I cold give you this feelin

I wish that I cold give you this feelin

We was livin on them corners, had a nigga rhymin, drinkin

Whylin, potted out, livin HIGH~!

[Pos:]

We live it real, hard, revoke your zeal

God don't come around here no mo'

So why you screamin HIS NAME in vain when the pain hits

Pick yourself up and get to a hospital quick

But leave out the bit, about what went down

I know they hound us for hawkin

Just a flesh wound, stitch it up, keep it walkin

Niggaz on the corners loyal, they ain't talkin (they ain't talkin)

Put down the sea of chalk and

The use of chalk is for lines of hopscotch

Or tracin dead bodies for crimes that got botched

For just crime commitin and it's, time to fit it

in the schedule, cause them crosstown niggaz

came to our corner sprayin that lead you pull

Ain't nuttin deeper than pilin in the car

with the streetsweeper so we can clear every star

off the corner

[Chorus]