New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince from Queens and from Harlem Street legends, the drugs the hood from starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a list of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat 40-side of Vernon, I well he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I If God sent him, two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't when they watched I took it upstairs, the mirror, brushed my hair at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones my ace get his case thrown His girl wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing he looking at centerfolds 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 replaced Pre-trial is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is 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 court officer's gun and started Then he the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I won't Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, independent label, killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke something crazy Sold music out the of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to them Southern niggas ain't slow, tried to play me I left from around them dudes, they but they crazy Now I'm back around the old school raised 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 with some down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho The still alive in a hospital Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me with a who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, mack daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes 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 thought I had something to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't with you He responded cool, but told me out here how motherfuckers
All I really say is that If that's how our gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if how we get down? A shame when you look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta a change