New York streets where walk like Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz Harlem Street legends, the kept the hood from starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a long list of high-profile Worldwide on the thorough side of Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast 40-side of Vernon, I well he asked me "What you up to, the gon' bust you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the And looked at us, I ain't flinch 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 straight hoeing While he looking at of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother during the Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial hearing is over, real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the 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 black power, cause all we is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas fuck they 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 CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to me I left from around them dudes, 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 from Bay The say, "Nas I got your back, the fools don't play" I rolled some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital they crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He me with a dame who was half-Mexicano the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes closed the hotel room do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet 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 responded cool, but told me out here this how
All I really say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if how we get down? A shame when you ain't at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody make a change