Schoolly D
C.I.A. (Crime In Action)
[Verse 1]
Homeboys, rock the beat
And young ladies, looking sweet
Because you're jammin’ with the homeboy
We're gonna take it back to the street
You write it on the wall
Wild style in the hall
Because your colors so bright and so bold
Exotic blue and gold
But stop, take a look
Just open up a book
Just fill your mind, do your part
And turn graffiti into art
**cut and scratched**
Schoolly School
[Verse 2]
People can't believe, don’t want to see
What your mind and your body, eyes can't conceive
All they really know is that you're running the game
The walls of the city will never be thе same
Graffiti is the only thing you got to give
Lifе on the run is how you truly live
Your name is known, you ain't full grown
Downtown Philly is a hoodlum's home
Cocaine, grime, nickel and dime
You got so high you committed a crime
You're takin' from the rich, the poor, and the needy
When you steal your [?] so you can graffiti
Saw a wall last night, I never will forget it
The tag is there [?] credit
Crime in action, need some satisfaction
Rhymes so def it will put you in traction
[?] on the beatbox, Schoolly on the microphone
Come on baby doll, don't leave me here all alone
[Verse 3]
I said ooh, ah, you’re trying to get by
But that’s too rough, you're sitting on the bus
The bus too full, don’t talk a lot of bull
'Cause you're too wack to get your job back
Your mama told you to get a job
So you [?] and you joined the mob
Stole you a Cadillac, [?] and drugs
Then you hang all night with the hoodlums and the thugs
You run through the street, [?] on your feet
Everything you want and need, you got [?]
Homeboy, homeboy, have you heard?
A [?] is a mockingbird
He told your man about you selling those drugs
Snatch that pocketbook down with the thugs
[?]
But your mama don't know you became [?]
Down with the homeboys smokin’ some weed
And your life long dream is to be in [the scene?]
But your man said "Boy, what you gonna do for [?]"
'Cause in this world, there ain't a damn thing free"
You'll be fighting in a war you know nothing about
Because the man on the top started to shout
Homeboy raving, the man's insane
I think sellin' drugs done messed up your brain
People think the [?] is the very last [?]
But I tell you right now ain't nothin' but a [?]
They don't give a damn if you ever, ever [?]
[?] homeboy [?] while I [?]
[Verse 4]
Chester, Chester, the child molester
He may be your friend or your Uncle Fester
12 years old, workin' the strip
First time out doin' tricks
Few days missing, turns up dead
'Cause her parents didn't know she was being led
I said all the bullshit has got to stop
Homeboys, young ladies, and hip hop
You take one MC to rock the beat
That one MC, baby doll, is me
You take one MC to rock you all
But more than one to stop writing on the wall
It take more than one to stop all the killing
Stop all the stealing and the cocaine dealing
Stop all the crime, rock to the beat
And you hold on tight while I take it to the street
Crime in action, need some satisfaction
Rhymes so def it will put you in traction
[?] on the beatbox, Schoolly on the microphone
Come on baby doll, don't leave me here all alone
[Verse 5]
Homeboys, rock the beat
And young ladies, looking sweet
Because you're jammin' with the homeboy
We're gonna take it back to the street
You write it on the wall
Wild style in the hall
Because your colors so bright and so bold
Exotic blue and gold
But stop, take a look
Just open up a book
Just fill your mind, and do your part
And turn graffiti into art