Yo, I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz that front, they be pullin' stunts   I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts      I was always taught my do's and don'ts   For do's I did and for don'ts, I said, "I won't"   I'm from Brooklyn, a place where stars are born      Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn and ripped up   Stripped up, shacked up and backed up from fiends   'Cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up      Kids are slingin' in my lobby, little Steve and Bobby   Gettin' paid but it's a life-threatening hobby   Yeah, they still play hide and seek   The fiends seek for the crack and they hide and let the cops peep      Grown folks say, they should be out on their own   Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home   Because they lifestyle is hectic so fuckin' hectic   Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are ejected      My lifestyle was so far from well   Coulda wrote a book with a title   'Age 12 And Goin' through Hell'      Then I realized the plan   I'm trapped in a deadly video game with just one man   So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts      Back on the Ave of Lavonia and Bristol with a pistol   Stickin' up Pamela and Crystal   You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest   Kid, come home from doin' the bid and nuthin' changes      What is the meaning of crime   Is it criminals robbin' innocent motherfuckers every time?   Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard   Tryin' to solve the puzzles to why is life so hard      Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!   Shots ring off and now one of them lay down   It's so hard to escape the gunfire   I wish I could rule it out like the umpire      But it's an everlasting game   And it never cease to exist   Only the players change      So I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts   I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts      I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts   I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts      I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts   I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin' stunts      I gotcha back, I gotcha back   I gotcha back, I gotcha back   I gotcha back, I gotcha back   I gotcha back, I gotcha back      I gotcha back so you best to watch your front   'Cause it's the niggaz who front that be pullin' stunts   I gotcha back but you best to watch your front   It's the niggaz who front that be pullin' stunts      {Your technique is magnificent when cut across the neck   A sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say   I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday   To hear that sound but to have it happen   To my own neck is ridiculous}