N.O.R.E. - Thug Poetry lyrics

(feat. Brown and Maze)

[Noreaga]

Yo, yo

I only, ride for those that'll ride for me

I only, shoot for those that'll shoot for me

I used to be in D.C., with my poetry

Niggaz said I'm on some other shit, crazily

I used to sell cracks, from the front streets to back

Then I got locked up, wicked Jake popped up

And the Jake he seen my, style before

But I'm, stayin lyrical behind my door

I'm in the yard God where niggaz try to test me hard

But my vocal's too powerful law, it's too potent

I kick one verse, the whole cypher stood frozen

Now them niggaz wanna parlay with me, general

I'm smooth like them niggaz that, don't blow trial

I come on home to a new leaf, no beef

Jose Luis yo I'm ill like an Indian chief

And my dress code, ill like, indiglo

[Chorus: x2]

Aiyyo we thugged out what, and we let y'all know

we keep it thugged out, catch us at, every show

Let's get the jump off jumped off, here's the bang out

Yo at every fuckin club, yo we got octane out

[Brown]

I need, nuttin but cash, I'm out in the stash

Extra acres, carribean seeds with no crabs

Fuck hunger, I'm gettin no younger, cop this half

brick til my pocket just thick, sit back and laugh

with the out of towners, keepin money around us

Four pounders, flippin wiggies, to the sirens around us

Cars and jewels, inside moves, three day cruise

Booted from Beijing, ?brought? our ventures to ?use?

The entrepeneur, droppin cock in your whore

Keep pussy open like a nigga sniffin coke in the hall

I do it all for y'all, basketball, or rims

Fiberglass that hold guns when I play old friends

Learn how to act around a playa who spike tracks

Doublin the pressure if your Empire Strikes Back

We savages.. break you up like marriages

Stick you in public and hide the thrills in baby carriages

[Chorus]

[Maze]

The way I grace shit so swift, play it tenacious

but smooth like a fugitive who move with a facelift

I stay lit, passin Branson, finesse no less

Reppin at random, forever at my best when I'm trancin

Niggaz make me wanna focus with emotion

If you notice, the vultures I bring they sting so swift

Your quotes is from Maze, my bang'll tip with any rapper

these days, spittin venom when my wordplay sprays

and claimin half this cash regardless, dome my target

from the heart spittin my flow while slow niggaz process

Blow the spot rock aggressive, mac eleven shots in

twenty seconds, flood money stashed kept in fed mint

What is that monkey tail you trust with your math

to lush your cash, rush in your path, bust you then dash

That's why I'm never fast with the street shit

Driftin in this deepness, with each step

breath taken make you niggaz speechless

Distinctive, mad different's how I kick it

Some niggaz recognize I'm individualized when I spit it

[Chorus]

[Noreaga]

What what what what what!

Thugged out nigga

Poet performin some other shit

(I'm type priceless)

On stage holdin my dick

In front of all y'all bullshit ass niggaz

(We're ill niggaz y'know)

Probably jerk off or piss on the front row

Throw that water on y'all, ya heard? (Word)

We don't give a fuck (aight)

We gonna keep it on some thug shit

From now to whenever nigga

If it's on let us know it's on

Try to sleep they'll sucka punch you

Fuck that