Mobb Deep Shook Ones Part I Lyrics

The most violent of the violentest crimes
We give life to
If these Queensbridge kids don't like you
We bring drama to worst kind of enemies
Your first time will be your last Earth memory
It's only your own fault
I gave you fair warning:
Beware - of killer kids who don't care
Unaware for who be dealt with in time
It ain't a mystery at how I form the words and rhyme
In nineteen hundred and ninety square
All shook n____s is supposed to have fear
Trying to get a piece of this pie - we don't share
Prepare for the worst 'cause I been there
Try to -
Keep a positive mind and walk a straight line
Don't work
Some n____s is forced to do dirt
And God made dirt, so this dirt won't hurt
If I listen to the lessons and the rules I learnt
On these streets for nineteen years and not leaving
My first priority's to reach twenty-one breathing
Forever beef: nobody will ever be even
So I grab the heat before freezin'
Lost in this foul mind state
I can't keep straight thinkin'
But I keep my eyes on the Earth without blinkin'
It's hard to be a man in this land of the venom
Any man try to front - he gets slugs in him because

He ain't a crook son, he just a shook one
Shook one
We live the life that of diamonds and guns
And numerous ways that we choose to earn funds
Some n____s get shot, locked down, and turned nuns
Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones (shook ones)
He ain't a crook son, he just a shook one

For every rhyme I write, it's twenty-five to life
To all my peoples in the 'Bridge know what I'm talkin' 'bout right
Ain't no time for hesitation
That only leads to incarceration
You don't know me - there's no relation
'Cause Queens n____s don't play
I don't got time for "he say" "she say"
I'm bigger than that
Claiming that you pack a gat
But you scared to get locked
Once you get up on the island
Tangerays'll stop
Thirteen years in the projects are hard times of livin'
Wake up in the morning, thank God I'm still livin'
Sometimes I wonder: do I deserve to live?
Or am I gonnna burn in hell for all the s___ I did?
No time to dwell on that
'cause my brain reacts
Front if you want, n____, lay on yo' back
I don't fake jacks, kid
You know I bring it to you live
Stay in the child's place...

Criminal minds thirsty for recognition mission
I'm strictly sipping the E&J, I got my mind flippin'
I'm buggin' thinkin' I'm always out or over hustlin'
Get that loot, kid, you know my m_________in' function
As long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegal
And once again I'ma put it on my peoples
Like max I hit - your dome up
When I roll up don't be caught sleepin'
'cause I'm creepin'
You just a shook one

We live the life that of diamonds and guns
and numerous ways that we choose to earn funds
Some n____s get shot, locked down, and turned nuns
Cowardly hearts and stra --
He ain't a crook son
He just a shook one

We live the life that of diamonds and guns
and numerous ways that we choose to earn funds
Some n____s get shot, locked down, and turned nuns
Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones, shook ones
He ain't a crook son, crook son
He just a shook one

Yeah, yeah.