Live And Let Die

Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo

"Late last night two undercover police officers



were found brutally murdered in a Fort Greene



apartment building in Brooklyn New York.



At this time police have no suspects.



Now to the weather but first..



G tell em what time it is!"




[Kool G. Rap]



I got a chance to get some money so I'm takin it



No joke because this bein broke shit just ain't makin it



Cause I grew up in the fast line



See my pops ran the numbers and my moms held the blackjack games



Now I'm able to leave the cradle



I don't remember the dinners, only the kilos on my kitchen table



Sittin right beside a pistol



And I'm watchin my pops, pick up bricks made out of crystal



While he was countin the green



I seen nothin but strainers, containers, scales and rocks on a triple beam



People was too afraid to stick him up



Because he had the most notorious brothers to come and pick him up



When I reached ten years old



I never recalled seein any more money and drugs in the household



Cause now pops was on his feet



And to keep us from gettin hurt he kept his dirt in the street



And if he tried to attack, your family's wearin black



because he just got your death, put on a contract



Another sucker to rub



Even my mother's walkin around packin a .357 snub



And many cops dropped dead



I seen a man pull out a pistol and blow off an undercover's head



Cause it's hard to get by



And that's why, when you're young in the streets



you gotta live and let die




Some say this ain't the life to choose



Rage is snapped away you get a page in the Daily News



But I just wanna get paid off



Cause if I was workin a regular nine to five I'd get laid off



Some people say, sellin w