New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration Prince from and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs the hood from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of high-profile Worldwide on the side of things kings, some 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 cops gon' you" I was a teen drunk off brew, I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when they I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't for him, she in the world straight hoeing While he looking at of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his mother 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 a smile 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 in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em They make you, disappear, this a that I won't forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, label, real killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke something crazy music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but they Now I'm back around the old school 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 Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga still alive in a Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my in the game, thugging 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 of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I moved in a manner, on 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 killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't with you He responded cool, but me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really gotta say is If that's how our gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we gon' get up if that's how we get down? A shame when you ain't at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta make a