New York streets where walk like Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration 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 high-profile Worldwide on the thorough of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm to blast 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, I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad entered the block And at us, I ain't flinch 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, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing While he at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother during the Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial hearing is over, it's real for the Walks in the courtroom, the look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to a smile when I see him up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court officer's gun and started Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, a year that I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, label, real killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke game something Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, or something Took a puff, the fuck, I turned to punch them niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm back around the old school that me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the don't play" I rolled some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The still alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He me with a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were the hotel room do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids 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 when you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody make a change