New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a list of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I well he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two cars entered the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the straight hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of pretty they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to crack a smile I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
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 year that I won't CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from 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 my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the fools play" I rolled with some Crips to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho The nigga still alive in a they crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me with a dame who was Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy She passed me the indigo, but the of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the blow, wet three kids 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, told him I ain't fucking you He responded cool, but told me out here this how
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 how we get down? A shame you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody gotta make a