trae As told to Randy Roper Photo by King Yella
reasons the streets ain’t going nowhere
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The Streets Make The World Go ‘Round That’s self-explanatory. Try That Bullshit And You’ll Be Under That Muthafucker If you come out there with that bullshit, thinking you’re Superman, you gon’ get laid up under the streets. The streets still gon’ be here after you’re gone. It’s What Real G’s Stand Up And Die For That’s what I represent. I’m not gonna let no bullshit or no muthafucka who think they’re better come shit on the streets, cause that’s what I live and die for. And I know there’s plenty other niggas from any other hood feels the exact same way I do.
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The Hood Is Where You Start And For Some, When You Fall Off, It’s Where The Fuck You Will End Everything that goes up gotta come back down. But there’re a lot of niggas in the game who come from where we come, get up there and shit on where we’re from. Then they fail to realize, you’re gonna come right back to these muthafuckin’ streets.
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Fake Niggas Will Get Exposed By The Streets It’s gon’ happen. Slowly but surely they’re getting exposed already. A couple of their careers done went down the drain already. It’s gon’ be a lot of people that’s gonna get exposed.
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I Am The Streets And I Will Not Lose If you come to Houston, I am the streets. The streets is me. You’re gonna hear me say that all the time. Come to Houston. I’m the king of the streets and I don’t plan on losing. It’s gonna be a hell of a fight if you think I’m going somewhere.
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The Code Of The Streets Is Designed For Street Niggas To Be On Top No matter how long it takes, it’s designed that everybody’s hood is gonna have their day.
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Everybody Wants To Be Street This goes way back from N.W.A all the way up. When you got niggas like N.W.A and Geto Boys doing stuff, everybody’s gonna tend to follow their lead. If you look a couple of years ago, the industry was on some straight rapping to a girl or rapping on some bullshit. But now everybody’s gone back to the N.W.A days and the Geto Boys days because it’s a lot of niggas like us who the younger generation came up under - a lot of O.G. cats. Then you got a lot of people trying to do shit that we do right now. Half of the industry, they think if you go in there and make a song about dope or make a song about shooting somebody, that’s what’s needed to sell. A lot of them misrepresent it. If you’re from the hood, any real hood nigga gon’ know, you don’t always shed light on [the] negative. That’s not what we’re trying to do all the time.
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The Whole Industry Is Based On The Streets You got a lot of these muthafuckas who ain’t never even been in the streets, claiming they’re street and rapping about street stuff. And then half of them be rapping about street stuff, messing it up for the streets because they told certain stuff in the wrong way.
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The Real Niggas Are Here To Spread Real Shit No matter how much the industry and the rest of the world wanna keep real life shut out, real niggas like myself and a few others, we’re here to spread our side of the story which is these streets. That’s where we come from and that’s what really be happening out here. This ain’t no fairytale shit.
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