New York streets where walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a list of high-profile celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, I wondered If God sent him, cause two cars entered the block And looked at us, I flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I gave my life to what the dice do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world hoeing he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial hearing is over, real for the soldier in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to crack a when I see him Throw up a fist for power, cause all we want is his freedom He a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas fuck enemies in they ass when they catch 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a that I won't forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but they Now I'm back around the old school raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my dawg from Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I rolled with some down to a Crenshaw funeral saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still in a hospital Midnight they crept in his and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me with a 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 room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the blow, wet three kids See thought I had something to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I fucking with you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
All I gotta say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever get up? How we ever gon' get up if how we get down? A shame when you look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk gotta make a change