[ti:Vietnam]
[ar:Saukrates]
[al:The Underground Tapes]
[by:]
[00:00.00]Vietnam (Explicit) - Saukrates
[00:07.62]Yo
[00:09.07]Yo yo
[00:10.90]Yo
[00:16.02]Yo
[00:21.16]Yo
[00:21.77]I'm loving the weather in this d**n neighbourhood
[00:24.28]Hot like fire everything females looking good ain't it
[00:27.68]My n***a Freddy agrees we near fainted
[00:29.86]Not knowing that my face portrait was being painted
[00:32.48]That very same day
[00:34.32]Anyways we chilling on the stoop shooting the breeze
[00:36.81]Arguing about who was the illest MC
[00:39.42]Verbally slapped my n***a saying player it's Jay Z
[00:42.13]My moms cuts it short sending me to the AP
[00:45.02]Supplies for supper quart of milk
[00:46.92]Loaf of bread and a stick of butter
[00:48.64]You're d**n right I was making beats for A's last night
[00:51.67]And you know them vets make you work up an appetite
[00:54.40]Split jump in the Ac it's deaded in the back
[00:57.12]Won't start pumping them tracks killed my battery
[00:59.74]Mad at me errrr n***a hit the brakes
[01:02.63]Dud I live for them Camelo and PF cuttin' tapes
[01:05.40]Can't forget what clue got
[01:06.91]Tony touch and doo wop
[01:08.32]Kid we can walk it's only five from my crib
[01:10.88]And anyway my n***a Jay who got my
[01:12.81]Mastermind joint
[01:13.80]Stay on the way to the grocery point
[01:15.89]Be back soon momma say
[01:17.46]Not knowing that my face portrait was being painted
[01:20.19]That very same day
[01:22.00]Walking talking Mrs Johnson is on her lawn
[01:25.07]Sunbathing so we honkin' errh
[01:27.15]She the finest forty something I seen in nine lives
[01:30.02]Not even Mr Johnson believe she forty five
[01:32.48]That's why I've made the pledge no more chickenheads
[01:35.16]Let me ride with you big girl keeping me well feed
[01:38.09]Here come the ice cream trucks some kids playing double dutch
[01:41.42]Looking I'll but too young to touch
[01:43.26]Then one child said
[01:44.51]Yo big sox when's the album due kid
[01:46.86]It's out stupid I want to form a neighbourhood B
[01:50.07]Like a Vietnam camp in 73 seperated from society
[01:54.67]Hit the corner there's my n***a Jay eyeing me
[01:57.29]Motherf**ker where my tape at lie to me
[01:59.90]And I'mma brake that you let's take a walk
[02:02.58]I'mma get it on my way back we gotta talk
[02:05.30]I heard one of them coons
[02:06.46]From the other side of the block
[02:08.16]Was f**king with you over some bullsh*t
[02:10.19]And pulled clips illigitly
[02:11.85]Yo he acted shifty because my crib's
[02:13.57]Where his chick be hangin dude
[02:15.42]Ignore that sh*t G and keep that thang banging in everyway
[02:18.82]Not knowing that my face portrait was being painted
[02:21.52]That very same day
[02:23.06]We gets to the A and P
[02:24.99]Jay's smoking so them niggas wait for me
[02:27.13]I'm standing in the express line what do I see
[02:29.62]Through the window
[02:31.02]Same coon and his kinfolk
[02:33.04]Everything turned slow motioned and muted
[02:35.13]In my mind while I saw these niggas creep up from behind
[02:37.98]I see one pull a nine I scream turn around
[02:40.82]Too late my n***a Jay's brain stained the ground
[02:43.48]They kicked my n***a Freddy in the gut saying what
[02:45.96]Now motherf**ker your man's nothing but a memory
[02:48.77]And hits him with another sucker punch
[02:50.79]F**k the lunch today I'm killing the bunch
[02:53.11]I run outside with one n***a lie dead
[02:55.38]The other bleedin' from the head
[02:56.88]Grab the gat Jay had strapped on the inside of his leg
[02:59.82]Yo Freddy just chill I'm about to retaliate
[03:02.28]Ill visions of murder blowe
[03:04.36]F**k it now it's time to k**l
[03:05.71]Cock back I'm prepared for action
[03:07.87]Becoming one with Samuel L Jackson
[03:10.40]Turn the corner I see them niggas running away
[03:13.15]Hit the shortcut I'm waiting at his crib
[03:15.43]I'm end this sh*t today
[03:17.54]Look here he comes now
[03:20.92]I've never felt pressure like this before
[03:23.92]Debating whether I should blast on site
[03:27.13]Or wait 'til the motherf**ker puts the key in the door
[03:31.26]Creep up on a n***a with God's hand
[03:34.67]On the hair pintrigger forgive me momma
[03:38.31]But I'm be a lonely groceries
[03:40.11]I mean
[03:41.01]You know diner's just going to have to wait
[03:43.14]Turn around motherf**ker
[03:48.61]Now
[03:49.34]If this was you what the f**k you do