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