New York where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince from Queens and Fritz from legends, the drugs kept the hood from starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a long list of celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day me, as I'm about to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when watched I took it upstairs, the mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't for him, she in the world straight hoeing he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying 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 look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to crack a smile I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his He grabbed a court officer's gun and squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em They you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke something crazy 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 to punch them Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play 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 wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I rolled with some Crips down to a funeral saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still alive in a Midnight they 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 Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy 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 in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet three See honey thought I had to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, that had her people up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking with you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
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 that's how we get A when you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody gotta a change