Keep It Live

JAMAL

Intro:



A yo man chill let's take this moment of silence out for my man C A Dogg.



Claude Austin. Rowdy 9 5.




Hook:



1 2 to the breaker 1 9 9 5 Jamal represent to keep it live



Testin' 1 2 3 I flows rhymes wicked Jamal represent to keep it live (x2)




Verse 1:



Back in the day where I'm from in the slum it was ill



Drive around the corner catch a view to a kill



Move up the block on the O they slang rocks



When niggas get hot they lickin' shots at the cops



Come with me (uh ha) I take you back to 1983



It was shell top sneakers and it was all about me



Me growin' up makin' a man out of myself



Kindergarden's cool I'm thinkin' about makin' to the 12th



Semester went by, by 5th grade I'm strugglin'



My mind was on bitches and smoke I'm not functioning



On waht I need to be to get me through



The world is a school, and me? Fuck it I'm rollin' with the crew



Now boom there it is I'm labelled as



An eleven year old, a 5th grade fast ass



A year went by (uh ha) and I'm still bad as hell



I got a taste of jail nothin' major I'm only twelve



My grandmas pissed off not understandin' what's happenin'



But come with me, creep into the darkening



(Back in the day) It's southwest



Fuck with Jamal you catch two to your chest



Contest if a nigga want to fool



I be the leader of the new school I straight rule



That was (back in the days) the days of wayback



But nowadays it's all about million stacks (word)




Hook (x2)




Verse 2:



It all started on December 25th 1991 on the Illadelphiatic streets



Jamal took a step up and gave his rep to someplay



Prayin' that I make it to this day



I met this female her name was El



Said she liked my style of rap we chatted for a little while



Told me haps on how to make the snaps



She said she lived in Atlanta where business booms like rockets



And she had connects outta sockets



We exchanged numbers and I was off to the crib



Cause January 1st I had to start my bid (for what?)



For being a wild unruling child



A week my granny sent complaints to the juevenile



Finally January 1st, the day I hated



My granny flew away to Georgia I got reinslated



Now I'm off, no more sun for a year of two



No more get high no more lampin' with the crew



(what could you do?) Nothin' so I lamped for about 20 months and a half



Then I got amped (what?)



I'm losing my mind, I can't take (what)



All of this bullshit I'm about to break (Where?)



Atlanta where they got some wealth to share



Hits the poster with my granny I got some tracks to tear



So I did it, soon as I got home I did it



Then I got that bitch Janey Ace to get the ticket and I'm out




Hook (x2)




Verse 3:



A wild little shortie on the straight looney expedition



Gut a nigga (uh ha) who