the lox
i wanna thank you
[Jadakiss] Yo, you can't fake it  Life's only what you make it  Front, be a snake, mess around, get your weight it  Ex-school boy who want to go and try to take shit  Found his body, in the projects, naked  I ain't gonna lie, If I wasn't doing this now  I'd probably'd be tied down, in a small town  With my eyes on a couple of guys  With their eyes on a couple of pies  Cause I will survive  Brains, is the key to the game  If you ain't got none, what good is a shotgun?  If you ain't got guns, then you better cop some  'Cause the New World Order's around the block, dun  Streets be where Lox get their props from  Check us on the Internet, L-O-X dot com (lox.com)  A worldwide message, I try to express it  The best I could, for ya'll to cherish, till I perish   [Chorus: Kelly Price] I want to thank you, heavenly Father  For shining your light on me  It's been a long time  Since I had someone to love me  I owe my thanks to thee   [Styles] They never expressed, that life's a part of death  They never go there, but you can blow here  The 25 to life and greens from below  Where, outta nowhere, you in the bus, hands is cuffed  Can't call your Mom, dog, you know times is rough  You was out yesterday, stressing a better way  Funny thing, they always seem to lock down Kings  And the thugs on the street just love to say, "It's all foul."  Watch the honeys check your style  Worthless, when they worship, what you purchase  They only see ice, not me, under the surface  What's the purpose? I just, go my way  Know my way, 'till bullets blow my way  Which they might, 'cause any night can change your life  Keep your state of mind tight and remain alright  It's plain to fight, but different to shoot  And might do it  If you ain't 10 different ways to get loot.   [Chorus]  [Sheek] Hey, yo, we handle rap like we do the street  Holding heat  It's them same crooked niggas  Watching dough, ain't nothing sweet, word  Buying beats is like copping grams  Niggas got too many scams  To give you garbage, slide the butters to their mans  That's aiight, though  'Cause even ready rock gets sold on our block  Watch us turn nothing into nitro  And we don't mingle  'Cause none of us don't really know you  From the heart, we never talk to strangers  So why start?  Anyway, we're rapping for this luxury shit  I watch wild niggas blow  See how plush shit can get  But we ain't trying to kiss ass to blow up fast  We gonna take our time and rely strictly on the rhyme  If I, wasn't that cat, Sheek Lucian, that rap  Would you still be my man  And pass your bottle to my hand  Would I be in the rain  While you pass me in the Land  Oh, you think by now that I don't already know your plan  To get next to me and possibly sex me  Then slip Ecstasy inside a nigga's Pepsi  Money'll never amount to respect, be	  And you don't want to test me  'Cause God blessed me.   [Chorus]  And I know  I know that it could not happen without you  I know it could not happen without you