intro (soft piano, distant siren)
Yeah — huh, yeah
Street signed
Ayy, yeah
chorus (melodic, haunting)
I’m signed to the streets, my name inked in the pavement (yeah)
Can’t sign no contract, that’s loyalty and payment
Diamonds on my neck but I’m feelin’ the basement
Signed to the streets, heart froze in the basement (huh)
Signed to the streets, they know me by my Crip name
Took the pain, made it richer — turned it into pavement (turned it into pavement)
Signed to the streets, can’t trade it for arrangements
Stuck with the code, yeah, I’m livin’ with engravements
verse 1
Came up from corners where the lights flicker low
Mama used to pray on the stoop where
The 4,5,6 roll
Pinned a picture to the wall of the ones we couldn’t save
Every dollar that I stack got a name on the grave
Everybody want the drip, they don’t want the cold nights
They don’t want the funerals, the cold bags, the low lights
Promised to the block, that promise ain’t erased
A thousand nights of hustle, a thousand prayers I made
pre-chorus
Flashin’ on the 'gram, but I still see the past
Friends I lost in the crossfire, shadows in the glass
chorus
I’m signed to the streets, my name inked in the pavement (aye)
Can’t sign no contract, that’s loyalty and payment
Diamonds on my neck but I’m feelin’ the basement
Signed to the streets, heart froze in the basement
Signed to the streets, they know me by my Crip name
Took the pain, made it richer — turned it into pavement
Signed to the streets, can’t trade it for arrangements
Stuck with the code, yeah, I’m livin’ with engravements
verse 2
Pull up, window down, city talkin’ real slow
Radio play my voice, but I still hear the stoop flow
Young ones lookin’ up, I gotta show a better way
But the block still call my name when the night sway
Used to sleep with a chip on my shoulder and a rifle on the floor
On Crip
Now it’s briefcases and fur coats, but my soul at war
Told the opps “keep talkin’” — sympathy don’t exist
Only loyalty and silence, and a gun on the hip
bridge (quiet, confessional)
I pray for the ones gone, I pray for the ones stayin’
Can’t let the fame blur the lines of where I’m pavin’
Got a frown on the money, a scar on my heart
No matter how high I fly, the ground pullin’ hard
breakdown (sparse, percussion)
Signed, signed, signed — yeah, signed to the streets
Promises and scars, every name on repeat
Signed, signed, signed — yeah, signed to the streets
Took the loss, made a lesson, now the whole block eat
chorus (bigger, voices layered)
I’m signed to the streets, my name inked in the pavement (name inked)
Can’t sign no contract, that’s loyalty and payment (loyalty)
Diamonds on my neck but I’m feelin’ the basement (feel it)
Signed to the streets, heart froze in the basement (heart froze)
Signed to the streets, they know me by my Crip name (by my Crip name)
Took the pain, made it richer — turned it into pavement
Porque music
See you when I see you
Otro