Lighters Up - Lil' Kim

I come from Bed-Stuy

Where niggaz either do or they gone die

Gotta keep the Ratchett close by Someone murdered

Nobody seen, nobody heard it Just another funeral service

Niggaz will get at you

Come through shinin', they yap you

In broad daylight kidnap you

Best get clap through

Police stay on us like tattoos

Niggaz only grind cuz’we have to Money is power

Sling crack, weed, and powder

Fiends come through every hour

Its all about that dollar

And we no deal with cowards

Weak lamb get devoured

By the lion in the concrete jungle, the strong stand and rumble

The weak fold and crumble

Its the land of trouble

Brooklyn home of the greatest rappers

BIG comes first then the queen comes after

Now put your lighters up (Bed-Stuy)

Put your lighters up (New-York)

Put your lighters up (D.C.)

Keep putting your lighters up (Philedelphia)

Put your lighters up (Detroit)

Put your lighters up (Chi-town)

Keep putting them lighters up No matter where you from, put your lighters up Now, let me give you a walk through

Show you what to do and you dont do Where its not safe to go to

Them boys approach you

Better say quick who you close to Dont come through if niggaz dont know you

Cuz’people is talking

The streets is watching

The G’s is lurking

Stash the nine in the garbage

The life of a hustla

The life of a gambler

Dice game, kill more niggaz than cancer

You know who you fuck with

Brooklyn dont run, we run shit

Roll up and just bumrush shit

We dont play that

Out in Bk, not at all, For a pound leave your face on the wall

R.I.P in memory of, Never show thy enemies love

We get it on where we live

You better have a pass, when you cross that bridge

Welcome to Brooklyn

Put your lighters up (L.A.)

Put your lighters up (V.A.)

Put your lighters up (Texas)

Keep putting your lighters up (New Orleans)

Put your lighters up (St.louis)

Put your lighters up (A-T-L)

Keep putting them lighters up No matter where you from, Put your lighters up Damn homie I’m so tore

And I dont think I’m ever gone somke no more

And I dont think I’m ever gone drink no more

But fuck it bartender you can give me one more

(We in the club like) Damn homie I’m so tore

(Lighting the dutch like) And I dont think I’m ever gone somke no more

(Passing the bub like) And I dont think I’m ever gone smoke no more

(Back at the bar like) Fuck it bartender you can give me one more

See, BIG done told you

Im the hottest bitch on the planet

Biggest sex symbol, since Janet

Theres a Nolte bandit

Laying in the cut like a bandage

Come through Fulton St. in the vanquish

Doing them damage

And if you dont understand it Then let me give it to you in spanish

Soy la senorita mas Linda del barrios y lo es abo tu eres despacio

Still over in Brazil, Sipping Mescotto

You must of forgot though

So Imma’take you back to the block yo Put you on to how we rock yo Some are boosting

12-year olds prostituting

Hit-men hired for execution, Theres no solution

Niggaz still piss in the hallways

Fiends get high on em’all day

The youth them bang at the cops off the roof

If you dont know my town is the truth

Welcome to Brooklyn

Now put your lighters up (New Jersey)

Put your lighters up (Boston)

Put your lighters up (B-More)

Keep putting your lighters up (Miami)

Put your lighters up (Puerto Rico)

Put your lighters up (Kingston, Jamaica)

Keep putting them lighters up No matter where you from, Put your lighters up