Crime

[Verse 1: Mr. 2-17]

This one for my partners 'hind the wall

This one for my partners that got caught

This one for my partners down the road

I got partners that ain't coming home

I got partners spending they whole life in jail

I got partners that can't wait to catch a bail

I got partners guilty and they'll keep it real

But if they don't repent man they gon' go to hell

[Hook: Mr. 2-17]

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

They gave my boy a nick and he started crying

[Verse 2: Mr. 2-17]

They gave my boy a dime and he started crying

Then he hit the stand and he started lying

Your honor that gun ain't mine, your honor that gun ain't mine

But we got your, on tape sending bullets flying

Now he goin' down for a long time

At the wrong place, at the wrong time

Two kids and a baby mama left behind

I seen this here play out 'bout a thousand times

'Nother black man in the chain gang

'Nother black man tryna gang bang

Another black man in the system

I could've went to prison but I didn't, thank God

[Hook: Mr. 2-17]

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

They gave my boy a nick and he started crying

[Verse 3: 2 Chainz]

This one for my partners locked behind the fence

Doing anything to pay they mama's rent

Yeah, hard head made a soft rear

Snakes in the grass, I bought a John Deere

Really ain't got no fear, really ain't got no fear

Use a digi scale for a souvenir

Put my first spot in my mama's name

Zero zero zero then the comma came

I'm straight up out the streets, I'm tryna maintain

Cut from a different cloth, we not the same thing

Forty years old, tryna join the gang

Twenty-five years for a quarter thing

[Hook: Mr. 2-17 & 2 Chainz]

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

(don't do it)

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

(don't do it)

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime

(woah)

They gave my boy a nick and he started crying

[Verse 4: Mr. 2-17]

If you ain't really 'bout it then stay out the streets

How you play with fire, don't expect the heat

When you in the streets you better watch your feet

Cause when you in the streets, them boys they play for keeps

When you in the streets you better watch your mouth

When you in the streets you better watch your house

If you in the streets you might not make it out

Man these streets ain't nothing you should play about

If you hit a lick you better run with it

If you in the streets just know what come with it

That's not the life that I chose, that's not the life that I chose

I chose the way of the Lord, for me He died and He rose

[Hook: Mr. 2-17]

Just don't do the crime, just don't do the crime

Man don't do that crime, man don't do that crime

Don't do the crime man, don't do the crime

If you can't do the time then don't do the crime