Episodes

[Chorus: Jazzyfatnastees & Black Thought]

Yeah, you in tune to another episode in my area code

Better believe it

All sorts of episodes in my area code

'Cause it is comin'

Where the blocks explode, where the temperature is cold

It's just an episode in my area code

It's another episode in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

All sorts of episodes in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

Where the blocks explode, ride strapped and unload

I seen it unfold in my area code

[Verse 1: Black Thought]

Yo! Just push the panic button on your remote control

Then enter the zone where I patrol this wicked realm cold soul

Diddly Bo, leave her feelin' a saga foretold

Who got caught 'pon the block for gold, got the old heads froze

They peepin' outta closed windows

They not secure as they supposed, I watched it all unfold

Witness another episode with titanic panoramic view

As this manic-depressant un-load with this gung-ho

Wild like a son sold for cash

Guns traded for sensi and hash, crack for ass

Entire crews pass, not makin' the news flash

Brews pass a memory and spark not to blast

Whatever Ave. transformed to the war path

Pure wrath from North down to 24th & Task

Game slaughter half the niggas you acquainted with

Streets tainted with camouflage, guerilla sabotage

My cousins Jarette and Todd was livin' type large

Got caught then blast, crashed off on Broad and Lombard

So many so-called hearts scarred, they buried in the yard

Lick shots at Babylon, de one comfy bombard

Kids run far from traditional credit cards scams

Veterans is nipped in the butt with large plans

Stick-up kids is jumpin' outta plated Dodge Rams

To jam you and your man, it's mad drama and...

[Chorus: Jazzyfatnastees & Black Thought]

Yeah, you in tune to another episode in my area code

Better believe it

All sorts of episodes in my area code

'Cause it is comin'

Where the blocks explode, where the temperature is cold

It's just an episode in my area code

It's another episode in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

All sorts of episodes in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

Where the blocks explode, ride strapped and unload

I seen it unfold in my area code

[Verse 2: Dice Raw]

This is for all of my niggas that are R.I.P.'s

You ain't missin' nothin', life ain't what it should be

I'll pass across soon, you know who's the enemy

Lots of shit has changed and it's kinda fucked up to see

You remember Tauseen? Nigga thinks life's a dream

Go out fast for the buck, do anythin' for the C.R.E.A.M

Never seen a case like this, although it's quite contagious

He even got his little brother actin' all outrageous

From dusk to dawn, and from dawn back to dusk

They do anythin' and everythin' tryin' to come up

It's kinda sickenin' how the cash is so fuckin' addictive

And when I say son wild, they say that that's conflicted

Ain't nothin' but a contradiction in this world we live in

'Cause the loot is for the takin', and not for the givin'

Then the youngest one will say "I'mma die hustlin'

Fuck everybody, except my brother who I'm trusted in"

I guess the young boy just did not know the truth

'Cause the followin' week, Tauseen threw him off a roof

And sometimes, I wonder what the fuck I think about that

How nowadays kids get whacked for somethin' less than a pack

But I guess that's how it goes when there ain't no more rep

Thought he was his brother's keeper, but fuck all that!

Niggas causin' mayhem from the P.M.'s to A.M.'s

America's worst nightmare — guns in kids' hands

[Chorus: Jazzyfatnastees & Black Thought]

Yeah, you in tune to another episode in my area code

Better believe it

All sorts of episodes in my area code

'Cause it is comin'

Where the blocks explode, where the temperature is cold

It's just an episode in my area code

It's another episode in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

All sorts of episodes in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

Where the blocks explode, ride strapped and unload

I seen it unfold in my area code

[Verse 3: Malik B]

It was the year of '84, I was tryin' to get in the mix

The year when niggas rolled with sheepskins, Cazals and kicks

Even got the patent-leather Adidas snatched off your feet

Man, that talk is cheap, the crippled can't walk for weeks

The first stoge was rolled to Penn & Teller's

Strolled in the dollar house parties in search for Cinderella

Was just a little man, real bold

Tryin' to act grown and old so that respect'll be shown

A hip-hop, a little bop and the break-dancin'

When niggas wore windbreakers, plot to take lambskins

Remember Zigglers? Uptown, the bottom's not quite the same

St. Charles in South Phil, the Ooh Mob gang

H-R-M Ogontz Ave., Brickyard to Hollow

Niggas was snatchin' Cazals and flippin' pockets for the dallo

You wore your little rope chain in West Oak Lane

And niggas from Logan came to extort, we know the game

You proclaim this gangster bullshit talk

And never even seen your man shot or bodies in chalk

Aggravated assault, another weekend in the precinct

Takin' everybody for a vic', man, that's how we think

Back then, you'd catch a sucker-punch off-guard

Niggas would pull your card, tryin' to walk around all hard

Niggas quick to flip your pockets if you lip-service

When you see fifteen niggas deep with scully's, get nervous!

It ain't no tellin' what they could do to you

So you clutch up, thinkin' and knowin' you gettin' stuck up

In another episode in my area code, episode in my area code

[Chorus: Jazzyfatnastees & Black Thought]

Yeah, you in tune to another episode in my area code

Better believe it

All sorts of episodes in my area code

'Cause it is comin'

Where the blocks explode, where the temperature is cold

It's just an episode in my area code

It's another episode in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

All sorts of episodes in my area code

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

Where the blocks explode, ride strapped and unload

I seen it unfold in my area code, yeah

[Outro: The Jazzyfatnastees]

Better believe it, 'cause it is comin'

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

You won't believe the sight you see before your eyes

Better believe it, 'cause it is comin'