Down The Backstreets Lyrics - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 - Guru

G TOP - GRU... - Guru Lyrics - Down the Backstreets Lyrics 

featuring Lonnie Liston Smith * 

* featured artists on this album were jazz musicians 

[Guru] 

Down the backstreets down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets down the backstreets 

(I'm walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets down the backstreets 

(I be walkin down the backstreets) 

Yo here goes some info on my flow and how I move 

to a def groove, I keep my rep smooth 

On the down-low, I travel with my mind to the street 

Concrete, like the gravel I'm in deep 

So I gotta hit ya from a real perspective 

Cause anyone who's talkin that crap, will surely get his 

I'm not the one to act flashy 

Cause man where I be at, we don't have to be classy 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(I'm walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(I be walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(Walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(I be walkin down the backstreets) 

Check it stupid 

While you're out there, on the main streets frontin 

Your game's week, so I'm huntin you down clown 

Cause you need to learn somethin 

All that bluffin, won't get you nothin but killed 

No mission fulfilled, because there's others who will 

get jealous, hell if they can take clout from you, they'll do it 

So that's what I'm about to do, I'll step to it 

and strip you of your pride (your pride) 

And then I'll stick and I'll rip you up from all sides 

or possibly I'll let you slide, slime 

Cause you'll set your own death in just a matter of time 

Yeah, and I'll be somewhere on the sidelines, y'know 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(Walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(I be walkin down the backstreets) 

So when you're lookin for me, here's where I'll be 

I'll be walkin down the backstreets in your vicinity 

Cause I been out here for a few 

So all that you're doin, ain't really nothin new (nothin new) 

I peeped the way you always perpetrate 

You're so phony, you make me wanna regurgitate 

Since you're ridin so high, you're bound to fall 

while I stand tall, and you don't get no props at all out here 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(I be walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(Walkin down the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(It's the backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, down the backstreets 

(In your backstreets) 

Down the backstreets, is a mind state 

Cause I don't have to be a pop star to rhyme great 

I've been out here observin things 

So now all fake gangsters and pranksters I'm servin 

YouknowhatI'msayin? I'm the king 

Come down the backstreets where it's dark 

I'ma snatch your heart 

So get a handle on life and quit livin so trife 

Or else we're gonna have to run up, and SMACK all the weak 

Comin straight from the backstreets 

And I'm out, ninety-three, it's all me