Keep it live|Keep it live||No question, I'm a piston in the engine|Letting off sparks, when you aim in my direction|Learn my lessons on the street corner|I stay strapped but street knowledge is my armor|Bring the drama and I'ma flip the script|Lean back like the mack and cigars get lit|Diss my district, pain inflicted|Don't get it twisted, it's personal then back to|Business, no witness, no forgiveness|Anybody suspicious, is on the hit list|Streets is vicious, before I sip|Pour out half the bottle for the homies that slipped|When the hate rise, watch out for the snake eyes|Ain't no safe side, no time to take five|It's go time, red yellow green light|It's real life, do the dirt, ain't no clean fight||Keep it live, in the danger zone|Stay solid on the corner that's the cornerstone|Stay rugged, the static don't stop|I hold heat 'cause the block stay hot|Keep it live, in the danger zone|Stay solid on the corner that's the cornerstone|Stay rugged, the static don't stop|I hold heat 'cause the block stay hot||We live on the streets, no retreat|We live on the streets, no retreat||Survive and maintain, the name of the game|The hustle's in the veins, 'cause the money's on the brain|Claiming the streets that cross, never crossed off|Whoever got beef, I got the hot sauce|Keep the crew tight, never surrender|Special delivery, shots fired, return to sender|Got heavy things, that put on the pressure|Remember, the only thing I lose? My temper|Keep'em running, crushing the wack crews|Catch'em sleeping, tapping the snooze|Black powder residues, smoke up the avenues|Bystanders confused, might lose they screws|Everyday struggle, not getting popped like a bubble|Move with muscle, lions in the jungle|No flash in the pan, tighten the muzzle|Sizzling slow burn, keep the burner by the buckle||Keep it live, in the danger zone|Stay solid on the corner that's the cornerstone|Stay rugged, the static don't stop|I hold heat 'cause the block stay hot|Keep it live, in the danger zone|Stay solid on the corner that's the cornerstone|Stay rugged, the static don't stop|I hold heat 'cause the block stay hot||The block stay hot|No surrender|The block stay hot|No surrender|The block stay hot|No surrender|The block stay hot|No surrender||Keep it live|I hold heat 'cause the block stay hot