[ti:Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous] [ar:Big L] [al:Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (Explicit) - Big L [00:00.35]Everybody everywhere is scratching for what they can get [00:04.37]Did you think anybody in this town is any different [00:07.26]They don't give a d**n who gets killed [00:08.99]Just as long as the dice keep rollin' [00:11.33]The hoes keep hoein [00:12.99]And the money keeps flowin' [00:15.54]My name is L and [00:16.53]I'm from a part of town where clowns [00:18.22]Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds [00:21.06]On 139 and Lennox Ave there's a big park [00:23.91]And if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark [00:26.68]'Cause at night time n***as try to tax [00:29.21]They're sneakier than alley cats [00:30.82]That's why I carry gats [00:32.29]Yo I'm a muthaf**kin' fugitive [00:34.46]Buckwild and foul is the lifestyle that I choose to live [00:37.91]Because to me it's all about a buck [00:40.30]I used to have a partner in crime [00:42.38]By the name of Chuck [00:43.47]We stormed the city shootin' s**t up like Frank Nitty [00:46.59]We robbed kids and split the dough 5050 [00:49.11]One day we stuck a dice game [00:50.77]On the ave and split the cash [00:52.26]Then I murdered his a*s and took his half [00:54.79]Because I'm all about ends and skins [00:56.89]When you got dough you don't need no muthaf**kin' friends [01:00.02]If I catch you on a late night black [01:02.04]You're gettin' stuck Jack [01:03.41]My moms told me to get a job f**k that [01:06.05]Aiyo picture me gettin' a job [01:08.55]Takin' orders from Bob sellin' corn on the cob [01:11.53]Yo how the hell I'ma make ends meet [01:14.25]Makin' about 120 dollars a week [01:17.00]Man I rather do another hit [01:19.64]I want clean clothes mean hoes and all that other s**t [01:23.10]Yo I admit I'm a sucker [01:24.67]A low down dirty sneaky double crossin' canivin muthaf**ka [01:28.38]Breakin' in cribs with a chrome bar [01:30.67]I wasn't 'poor' I was po' I couldn't afford the 'o-r' [01:34.38]I used to wait until it gets dark [01:36.38]And tell a n***a to strip I wanna see some birthmarks [01:39.87]Like a ninja dressed in black with a ski mask [01:42.58]I take all the funds then I run down the street fast [01:45.63]I vicked this n***a named Eugene [01:47.54]Took his brand new ring [01:48.89]'Cause stickin' up's a everyday routine [01:51.02]Once I was crusin in a beat-up ride [01:53.52]Saw this n***a named Clyde [01:54.93]And snuck up on him from the blind side [01:56.80]I told him [01:57.49]Give up the dough before you get smoked [02:00.01]Oh you're broke now you're dead broke [02:02.63]The big L was cold crazy [02:04.79]A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies [02:08.23]I don't care I'll do anything to get a buck [02:10.98]Even rob a Miller truck [02:12.47]'Cause I don't give a f**k [02:13.80]Some say I'm ruthless some say I'm grim [02:16.28]Once a brother done broke into my house and I robbed him [02:19.51]Plenty and many brains I bust [02:21.58]'Cause I was livin' the lifestyle of the poor and dangerous [02:26.27]Word [02:26.97]All of us from Harlem [02:28.41]139 [02:29.32]That's livin' the lifestyle of the poor dangerous [02:31.38]You know I'm saying [02:32.63]This goes out [02:33.68]To my brothers [02:34.55]Big Lee and Don Ice [02:36.34]Reggie reg TC todd lou black tone [02:40.63]Whitey Ty speeder ru dog herb McGruff [02:44.63]E-Jet G love doc ring slice and rich dice [02:48.12]I can't forget the 1-4-0 [02:50.32]Lennox ave troop [02:51.52]And I gotta say rest in peace to mate the skate dog [02:56.16]And my man Kerry [02:58.24]Peace [02:59.12]Now what kinda life is that for a child [03:01.57]Now what kinda life is that for a child [03:04.25]Now what kinda life is that for a child [03:06.95]Now what kinda life is that for a f**kin' child [03:10.86]Word to mother [03:11.76]F**k all that stupid s**t [03:14.10]Controversial not commercial n***a