Corners Lyrics - Kanye West

1 feat. Kanye West, The Lost Prophets

2 Verse 1:(Common)

3 Memories on corners with the fo's and the mo's

4 Walk to the store for the rose, talking straightforward to hoes

5 Got uncles that smoke, and some put blow up they nose

6 To cope with the lows, the wind is cold and it blows

7 In they socks and they soles, niggaz holdin' they rolls

8 Corners leave souls opened and closed, hopin' for mo'

9 We know where to go, niggaz rollin' in droves

10 They shoot the wrong way, 'cause they ain't know and they goes

11 The streets ain't safe 'cause they ain't knowing the code

12 By the foes I was told, either focus or fold

13 Got cousins with flows, hope they open some doors

14 So we can cop clothes and roll in a Rolls

15 Now I roll in a Olds, with windows that don't roll

16 Down the roads where cars get broken and stole

17 These are the stories told by Stony and Cottage Grove

18 The world is cold, the block is hot as a stove

19 On the corners

20 Hook:

21 (Kanye West)

22 I wish I could give you this feelin'

23 I wish I could give this feelin'

24 On the corners niggaz rob or kill

25 And dyin' just to make a livin', huh?

26 (Spoken: Lost Prophets)

27 We overstated, we underrated, we educated

28 The corner was our time when time stood still and

29 Gators and snakeskins and

30 Yellow and pink and

31 ? profiles ??

32 Verse 2: (Common)

33 Street lights and deep nights, cats tryin' to eat right

34 Ridin' no-seat-bikes, with work to feed hypes

35 So they can get sweet Nike's, they head and they feet right

36 Desires of street life, cars and weed types

37 Its hard to breathe nights, days are thief-like

38 The beasts roam the streets, the police is Greek-like

39 Game that is deep, we speak and believe hype

40 Banged in the streets has cop left for deep life (?)

41 Its steep life, coming up where niggaz is sheep-like

42 Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like

43 G's with three strikes, seeds that need light

44 Cheese and recite, needs and BE strife

45 The corner, where struggle and greed fight

46 We write songs about wrong 'cause its hard to see right

47 Look to the sky, hoping it will bleed light

48 Reality's a bitch, and I heard that she bites

49 The corner

50 Hook

51 (Spoken: Lost Prophets)

52 The corner was our magic, our music, our politics

53 Fires raised as tribal dances and war cries

54 Broke out on different corners

55 Power to the people

56 Black power

57 Black is beautiful

58 Verse 3: (Common)

59 Black church services, murderers, Arabs serving burgers

60 As cats with gold permanents, move they bags as herbalists

61 The dirt isn't just fertile, its people workin' and earnin' this

62 The curb getters go where the cats flow and the current is

63 Its so hot that niggaz burn to live

64 The furnace is, whether money movin', the determined live

65 We talk shit, play lotto, and buy German beers

66 Its so black packed with action that's affirmative

67 The corners

68 Hook

69 (Spoken: Lost Prophets)

70 The corner was our Rock of Gibraltar, our Stonehenge

71 Our Taj Mahal, our monument

72 Our testimonial to freedom, to peace, and to love

73 Down on the corner