New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz from Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long of high-profile celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day me, as I'm about to blast heat of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a teen drunk off brew, I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I almost my life to what the dice do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight 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 jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's real for the Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to a smile when I see him up a fist for black 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 they enemies 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, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game something Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm back around the old school that me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my dawg Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the don't play" I rolled with some down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still alive in a Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, thought my were closed Opening the room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet three See honey thought I had something to do, with all the Cause I was with a crew, that had her killed Called up my cousin, him I ain't fucking with you He responded cool, but told me out here how motherfuckers
All I really say is that If that's how our people get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if how we get down? A shame when you ain't at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta a change