New York streets killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince from Queens and from Harlem Street legends, the kept the hood from starving cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast 40-side of Vernon, I turned he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God him, cause two squad cars entered the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't 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 proof The D.A. who him was lying A dude, killed his mother during the case jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, real for the soldier in the courtroom, the look 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 officer's gun and squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em make you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game 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 to punch them Southern niggas slow, nigga tried to play me I from around them dudes, they cool 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 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 Midnight they crept in his room and shot the too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He me with 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 room do', to let her in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the blow, wet three kids See honey thought I had to do, with all the drama Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't with you He responded cool, but told me out this how motherfuckers
All I gotta say is that If how our people gon' 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 make a change