New York where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs the hood from starving cars, Nicky 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 about to heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my 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 ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas die he's living proof 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 hearing is over, 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 smile I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court officer's gun and squeezing Then he the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year I won't forget Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game crazy Sold out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to me I left from around them dudes, they cool but crazy Now I'm back around the old that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my dawg from Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the fools play" I with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes closed the hotel room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li 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 people Called up my cousin, told him I fucking with you He cool, but told 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 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 gotta make a