New York where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the side of things kings, some died, one guy, one time One day me, as I'm about to blast heat of Vernon, I turned 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 cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair 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 world hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of pretty Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's 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 aisle I want to crack a when I see him Throw up a fist for power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs niggas, independent label, real killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of car, that shit amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I left from around them dudes, cool but they crazy Now I'm around the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my dawg Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I rolled with some Crips down to a funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho 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 plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my were closed Opening the hotel 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 I had something to do, with all the drama 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 say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A shame when you look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta a change