GZA - I Gotcha Back (Instrumentals)

Prod. RZA

Chorus: gza and rza

I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggaz that front, they be pullin stunts
I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggaz who front (they be pullin stunts)

Lyrics:

I was always taught my do's and don'ts
For do's i did, and for don'ts, i said i won't
I'm from brooklyn, a place where stars are born
Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn
And ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up
From fiends, cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up
Kids are slingin in my lobby
Little steve and bobby
Gettin paid but it's a life-threatening hobby
Yeah, they still play hide and seek
The fiends seek for the crack, and they hide and let the cops peep
Grown folks say they should be out on their own
Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home
Because they lifestyle is hectic, so fuckin hectic
Blaow! blaow! blaow! bullets are ejected
My lifestyle was so far from well
Coulda wrote a book with a title "age 12 and goin through hell"
Then i realized the plan
I'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man
So i don't only watch my back, i watch my front
Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin stunts
Back on the ave of lavonia and bristol with a pistol
Stickin up pamela and crystal
You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest
Kid come home from doin the bid and nuthin changes
What is the meaning of crime (what?)
Is it criminals robbin innocent motherfuckers everytime?
Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard
Tryin to solve the puzzles to why is life so hard
Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!
Shots ring off and now one of them lay down
It's so hard to escape the gunfire
I wish i could rule it out like an umpire
But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist
Only the players change, so...

Chorus 3x

Rza - i gotcha back (8x)
I gotcha back so you best to watch your front
Cause it's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts
I gotcha back but you best to watch your front
It's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gotcha
• back
• gza
• rza
• liquid
• swords
• wu
• tang
• clan
• wu-tang
• hip-hop
• rap

[Shadow155]

Welcome to Memphis, the place of mega trife,

we scream "I KEEP IT REAL" as a motto for the hood life,

perhaps it's the youngest who are the most vulnerable,

without guidance, heaven; better yet hell is unstable,

picture a dark alley, without a gang rally,

but it never happens 'cause we all gots backs,

wherever the realest scream they got the hood rats,

I gotcha back brother, never just another,

we all stay together.

I gotcha back but you best ta watch your front..... watch ya back....

[knop95]

am I the only one thinking this sounds alot like Code of the Streets by Gang Starr?

[CentHunned]

My art of war is more than just another metaphor

vast lands where the black hand's out to settle scores

swinging metal swords as your head & neck divorce

shots of red & gore, violence always sets the course

I always led in force, black shadows move swift

move-ments planned, stand in the path the moon-lit

actions as a u-nit, tools picked, our heads bow to no-one

foes silenced with clothes violet, the code of the shogun...

[IggyDaKid]

@Shoe3003 menacing....good descrip

[IggyDaKid]

@knop95 i see the comparison....but if i had to pick...this beats better...both dope beats and both DOPE EMCEES...RIP GURU

[Razzberry02]

wu tang is beast

[Shoe3003]

the sample of the woman pray-singing is on the intro of the radio edit of C.R.E.A.M too

[danako18]

same chord progression as code of the streets but im trying to figure out the sample(s) I think he might have piano rolled tampering wiht the pitch and time stretching

[Shoe3003]

@ knop95

the notes are similar but Code of the Streets isn't menacing like this is