Released: November 10, 1998

Featuring: Streetlife

Songwriter: RZA Streetlife Method Man

Producer: RZA

[Method Man]
Suspect chin niggas, no win niggas
Send niggas back to go, try again niggas
All hail me, the good the bag the ugily
The money's around your way, lovely
Where for art thou Meth-tical god-child
I pack a smile like crocodile profile
Can't hold it down? oh the shit gon' hit the fan now
Spin around let your who'sle crown man down, man down

[Street Life]
I live by the street code never old
Never love a ho, never flash the dough
Cause you never know who friend or foe
Got block control solid gold thought
Before the blow lets stroll through the ghetto
Habitat with no parole
Never snitch switch which
Keep a fresh pair of kicks
Split the tongue snatch the weed
In case the cops wanna strip search
Think first prepare for the worst
When you do dirt
Remember there's a million other niggas with the same thirst

[Method Man]
No doubt dummy out
Bets pull the money out
Niggas walk a funny route
This is what its all about?
Young guns and dum-dums
Slum bums and sons
Askin' niggas where they come from
Get him for his ones, um
Sunshine, its crunch time
Stranded on the front line
Ducking from the one-time
Niggas on the run, where the cameras can't come, ha
Make this one the anthem
Ring around the rosie
Pocket full of Grants, uh

[Bridge]
Just because you wild in the club you ain't thug
Sport gloves and gold mugs you ain't thug
Tattoos and hard screws don't make you thug
Sucker for love catch a slug, nigga

[Hook]
Suspect chin niggas, no win niggas
Send niggas back to go, try again niggas
Shotgun slammin' in your chest piece, blaow
Shotgun slammin' in your chest piece, blaow

[Street Life]
Carry a ox and avoid spots
Cell blocks rap blow you for your slot time
What you got's mines
We can take it to the yellow lines and we can pull nine
Whether the rhyme or the crime I'm a still shine
Heavy on the street talk, cut your life support short
Never had no love for you so it ain't no love lost
Strictly enforced by a street source, get double-crossed
Hands off, I run with the torch

[Method Man]
They got me fed up from the head up
Put up or shut up
On stage in them shiny get-ups?
Niggas is funny
Energizer bunny actors
They hustle backwards
Son, I think they gay rappers, say word
Drops will slash ya, darts splash ya
Party crasher, the spell caster
Heard the same before and after
It's over
Slug hit your brain, end of game
Dun, its over
End of the line, out of time, bitch its over
On the wrong street with no heat, hmm, it's over
We soldiers somebody should've told ya

[Hook]
Suspect chin niggas, no win niggas
Send niggas back to go, try again niggas
Shotgun slammin' in your chest piece, blaow
Shotgun slammin' in your chest piece, blaow
Suspect chin niggas, no win niggas
Send niggas back to go, try again niggas
Shotgun slammin' in your chest piece, blaow
Shotgun slammin' in your chest piece, blaow

[Street Life]
With the W burning through your flesh
Verbally possessed, never second-guess
Blow minds like David Koresh
Fuck a vest, you need a gun to protect your assets
Deep in the Aztecs, break out before the sun set
Street wars, gimme yours, crime is what I live for
Got rhymes galore, next time it's at the Wu store
If you sleep late, next date is at the cest gate
All you sober mc's, I leave y'all niggas half-baked

[Method Man]
Microphone is in a choke hold
Losin' control, bringing drama by the boatload
It takes drama
In the pillage now of Cappadonna
My split persona hit their village and their baby mama
Y'all niggas playing with this money while we stay hungry
And kept it pudgy it won't make me have to crash, dummy
Before its over
You should keep your chain tucked in
And should never run your mouth with a suspect chin
Now lay it down

[Bridge]

Method Man

Method Man (born Clifford Smith on March 2, 1971) is a Grammy-winning rapper and actor who is one of the breakout members of Staten Island’s Wu-Tang Clan. On their seminal 1993 debut album Enter the 36 Chambers, Mr. Mef made his name known with his namesake solo track among other standout appearances throughout the album. He was also the first member of the group to release a solo album when he put out Tical in 1994.

In 1996, Method Man won a Grammy with Mary J. Blige in the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group category for their collaboration “I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need.” Meth has gone on to release several solo albums while continuing to contribute to Wu-Tang projects, and he also released two collaborative albums with his partner-in-rhyme Redman in 1999 (Blackout!) and 2009 (Blackout! 2).

He parlayed his success in the music business into television and film roles. He has appeared in The Wire, Belly, The Breaks, The Deuce, Luke Cage, and he’s the host of the rap battle TV show Drop the Mic. He also starred alongside Redman in their short-lived FOX sitcom Method & Red and the movie How High, which is named after their 1995 collaboration. He has also been featured in multiple Def Jam fighting video games, including Def Jam Vendetta and Def Jam Fight For NY.