check it out now, word up, son, s**t is ill kid
knahmsayin`? bein` that we livin` the motherf**kin` trife life
don`t have another day right? it`s only right
let me put you on to what happens son
never believe this s**t, kick that s**t

it`s just another day, drownin` my troubles with a forty
that`s when i got the call from this brown skin shorty
she asked me where`s my crew at? said we could do whatever
she got her crew too and said that we should get together

i said, "aight, just call me back in a hour
so i can take a shower and gather up the manpower"
then i hung up the horn
and i thought to myself that it might be on

`cause this trick ain`t pick up the phone to call me in years
ever since i left the hoe lonely in tears
ain`t no tellin` what her friends puttin` up in her ears
ideas of settin` me up, i`m not tryin` ta hear

check it out, son, so we take the gats for precautions
plus this trick live in brooklyn, home of the coffin
she might got a whole batallion of bucktowners
waitin` for us to get up off the train and surround us

or maybe, i`m blowin` this s**t out of proportion
but this s**t do happen to ni**az very often
so f**k it, a ni**a gotta do what he meant to
my crew got my back, f**k the world is my mental

we put together five soldiers, the bitch called
my blood curdled, told me to meet her on myrtle
got to the plaza, we`re waitin` for the g train
we put a plan together, just in case the beef came

now we bed stuy bound
far from home and on unknown ground
but together we six deep, with fire piece, nuttin` sweet
first ni**a frontin`, gettin` lifted off his f**kin` feet

it took eternity, we reached our destination
my heartbeat is racin` like a cardiac patient
we finally got to myrtle outside the train station
i saw not a soul, told my peoples to be patient

but hold up, that`s when a black caravan rolled up
my legs then froze up, i grabbed my pound
told my man, "eyes open `cause it might go down"
said he don`t like the way the s**t is startin` to sound

evey angle of the car was smoked out and tinted
so we couldn`t tell if the enemy was in it
it mighta been tnt, i wasn`t tryin to wait and see, we
jetted thru marcy `cause dee`s ain`t baggin` me
word son, they got us on the run, dunn, see yo

check it out, check it out, check it out, yo
trife life got me thinkin` like an animal
no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, yo
what can kill you is what you don`t know

okay check it, you`re on your way to your girl`s crib
but the bitch live in the bridge
you ain`t really sweatin` it, `cause little do you know
the ni**az in the bridge be settin` it

you thought you was safe and tried to walk
the backstreets without heat
on the 41st side settin` it of 12th street
the cyber-ni**az don`t give a f**k
decide well if you come thru frontin`, kid you gettin` bucked

on your way, to apartment 3a
with a phat herringbone, let him slide, no days
son, get the heat, `cause i`m about to stick `em
(f**k that s**t, yo, if that ni**a front, yo hit him)

aight bet, so just hold it down
while i c**k back the long three pound
you`re upstairs bonin`, not knowin` that i`m scheamin`
just the right time kid, it`s twelve in the evenin`

you`re leavin` out the buildin` as you kiss your girl goodbye
thought you was safe and got caught by surprised
"what`s goin` on?", as i reply
"shut the f**k up and don`t make this `to another homicide"

he tried to play tough so i put one in his brain
even though i took his life, all i wanted was the chain
come through truck without heat, how you figure?
when you in the projects keep your fingers on the trigger

but f**k that we`re juxin`, if you got what we like you gets tooken
put you on your back, send you on your way, yo good lookin`
now be catchin` the cap that holes in ya lewis in brooklyn
gettin` to` up from the flo` up, hit the dress sto` up

got the 80-0 in case a ni**a wanna roll up
get`cha motherf**kin` s**t swoll up
now it`s back to queens to serve fiends
makin g`s by any means, my eyes on my enemies

sippin` hennessey, with my mind on some crime s**t
one-time searchin` me but never ever find s**t
it`s the everyday, get the loot then breeze
though my goal is to leave outta state, push ki`s

but all this bulls**t holdin` me down, i can`t leave
f**k a 9 to 5, i get the loot with ease
don`t even need a degree to earn a six-digit figure
i get mines slingin` on the corner with my ni**az
pullin` the trigger when the drama appears
`cause that ni**a worse enemy is fear, so yo

check it out, check it out, check it out, yo
trife life got me thinkin` like an animal
no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, yo
what can kill you is what you don`t know