Neighborhood Watch — Dilated Peoples

Intro: Evidence

The neighborhood watch (Is jewels and spots) It's mine and yours (Let's guard the block) This ain't the cops (It's the neighborhood watch) It's mine and yours

Verse 1: Evidence

When I was young the neighborhood watched Us get down on a cardboard box in vacant lots Well down on Venice Beach, you had to jet before dark The freaks come out at night to spark Write with my right, bat with my left hand Hearing of a blind cat, vision of a deaf man Breath through my eyelids, my flow keeps my teeth white Half B-boy, half Z-boy, the street lights watch The neighborhood watch it is jewels and spots It's mine and yours, Let's guard the block This ain't the cops, It's the neighborhood watch It's mine and yours, Let's guard the block

Verse 2: Iriscience

Watch your colours and watch your slang Watch how your fingers twist and change Alot of cats out here ain't playin' Alot of cats here still can't bang Me? I don't bang, I rock the good rhymes The whole scenery reminding me I should rhyme And not floss but invest in mine And hope it never comes to the best in nine But hey, the neighborhood watch guard the block Watch for criminals and watch for cops It ain't gon' stop, it's the neighborhood watch Watch for criminals and watch for cops

Hook: Scratched By Dj Babu

Neighborhood watch

Evidence

Protect your own, protect your home Respect the hustle and set the tone Entertain but drop gems mostly Like, don't covet your neighbour but watch him closely

Iriscience

Closed circuit, checking the street Between blessing the beat and stressing to eat Between my first breath and resting in peace Between keeping the peace and arresting police

Evidence

The eyes have it, once again it's your Peoples Blacked out your tinted windows, we still see you The streets is breathing, the streets is watching The streets start trends and end them - be cautious

Iriscience

Black Panthers, Brown Berets We watched the watchers and found a way I see it all like a fly on the wall And thats real gay, so keep your eye on the ball

Evidence

The neighborhood watch is jewels and spots It's mine and yours, let's guard the block This ain't the cops, It's the neighborhood watch It's mine and yours, let's guard the block

Iriscience

The neighborhood watch, guard the block Watch for criminals and watch for cops It ain't gon' stop, it's the neighborhood watch Watch for criminals and watch for cops

Outro: Scratched By Dj Babu

Neighborhood watch