New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince from Queens and Fritz Harlem Street legends, the kept the hood from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm to blast heat of Vernon, I turned 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, two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to the dice do Yeah man, them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he looking at centerfolds of pretty Showing they cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother during the jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's 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 when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court gun and started 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 make you, disappear, this a year that I won't Sold double platinum, met mo' execs niggas, independent label, real killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now chilling had the coke game something crazy Sold music out the of they car, that shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, tried to play me I from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm back the old school that 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 Crips down to a funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga still alive in a Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things 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 tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids See honey thought I had to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, that had her people Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we gon' get up? How we ever get up if that's how we get down? A shame you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody make a change