New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from Queens and from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast 40-side of Vernon, I turned he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when watched I took it upstairs, the mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's proof The D.A. who tried him was A dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his He grabbed a court officer's gun and squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas fuck they in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I forget Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, label, real killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm around the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the fools play" I rolled some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho The nigga still in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, mack daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, my eyes were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet three See honey thought I had something to do, all the drama Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, him I ain't fucking with you He responded cool, but told me out this how motherfuckers
All I really gotta say is If that's how our people get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A shame when you look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk gotta make a change