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You Don't Work, U Don't Eat (featuring Ice Cube, MC Eiht & Jay Dee)
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"This afternoon we want to talk about"
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"Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from"
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[WC]
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Five yers ago when I was in high school
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No bills to pay, I used to say to myself "Life is cool"
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I had a roof over my head and a part-time job
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Slanging at OB's birdstand
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Washington High was the school I attended
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Til '87 graduation came and I wasn't with it
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Kicked out the house at the age of 18
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No money for college, mmm, how should I handle things?
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I tried to go the so-called right way
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And went to a JC but I wasn't getting paid
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I'm working at a chicken stand now with the chicken
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With a spring at the top of my hat getting clowned
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I gotta pay my rent but my job ain't cutting it
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So now I'm drinking gin saying "Here's my alternative"
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To either keep doing what I'm doing, don't trip
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Or go and buy gats y'all and come up on a grip
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So like anybody else I went and bought a gun
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Pulling burgs at night and now I'm counting my funds
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Three times a day and I drive a coup on danas
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Cruising through the alley bumping on "Hi" to players
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Yo, you can say what you want but I was taught on the streets
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That if a brother didn't work, then he didn't eat
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"You don't work, you can't eat"
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[Coolio]
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Peep this, something kind if for weakness
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Focus on the park and watch how I freak this
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Subject for survival, got to stay alive
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I gotta eat so I do or die
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Not a full-time crook but I was born right
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So if I want to eat, sometimes I got to jack
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So jack I will and go get some presidents
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A foot in the ground and the other on an oil slick
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Money ain't everything but either is brokeness
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Give me a knife cause I can't live off happiness
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Once a brother said I can't work for the white kind
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Standing on the corner in a soup line
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Said he's too black, too strong, ain't done nothing yet
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Waiting on the fifth for his government relief check
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Humming and bumming, most hate to see him coming
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And every first and 15th, these strongs on his life
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But a hustle is a hustle and a meal is a meal
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That's why I'm real and I ain't afraid to steal
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Straight from the street, backed up by a funky beat
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If you don't work, OG, then you don't eat
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"You don't work, you can't eat" (Repeat 2x)
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[Ice Cube]
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Ayo, I want y'all to meet a nigga from the Lench Mob
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He gaffled for his meals (McDonald's is my spot)
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Ayo Jay Dee, kick some shit for the Maad Circle, G
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[Jay Dee]
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If you don't work, you don't eat, need I say more?
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Cause I'm a kick my rhymes in abundant while you stay poor
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Since I was 14 I raised myself
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I built a roof over my head and then I went for self
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I sold cooked-up rock, made my way through school
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I'm not saying you should do it cause it ain't too cool
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Kicking ???, playing to start your back
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Talking about that bullshit prize, you slay me right?
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And you other motherfuckers out here banging for change
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Need to wise up and seek personal gain
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Or maintain some type of pain
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Cause they don't give away hot lunches out here in L.A.
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Yo peace to the Dub and the Maad Circle
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For giving me the chance to let the rhyme just flow
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So you can (So you can either sell dope or get your ass a job)
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Jay Dee (I'd rather roll with the Lench Mob)
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"You don't work, you can't eat"
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[MC Eiht]
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Eiht is stepping from the city down under
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And I'm robbing more punk fools blind like Stevie Wonder
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Ain't no punching a clock, I ain't with it
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For a quarter an hour I make the shit every minute
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And please, don't even let me catch a brother slipping
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He'll be short, shorter than short
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With my hands around his troat
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Fool, come off the chain and bracelet
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I know it's wrong but face it
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A brother like me won't win the lottery
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Ain't no faking when it's time to bring home the bacon
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Cause I was taught get what you're gonna get quick
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And don't get gaffled in the mix
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So I guess I'll keep stacking, breaking the law
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Checking a fool, wrecking and breaking his jaw
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Gyeah, that's life in the Compton streets
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Homeboy you don't work, homeboy you don't eat
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"You don't work, you can't eat"
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[WC]
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This record was put together by Jay Dee, Coolio, and the W
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Eight, Chilly Chill, and DJ Crazy Toons
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Sic brothers out to get paid cause
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Nowadays you got to go for yourself or go broke
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I'm living day by day cause you see the future ain't promised
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So save that drama for your mama
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And make sure you're out of my path when I'm on the creep tip
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Or have your first name changed to R.I.P.
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"You don't work, you can't eat" (Repeat 2x)
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