New York streets where killers'll walk like Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince from Queens and from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a list of high-profile celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled 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 mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die living proof The D.A. who tried him was A dude, killed his mother during the case jury, now the D.A. is being replaced 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 crack a when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his He a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they in they ass when they catch 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a that I won't forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs niggas, independent label, real killers Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling had the coke game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of car, that shit amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to them Southern ain't slow, nigga 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 Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I with some Crips down to a Crenshaw 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 the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were 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 honey thought I had something to do, all the drama Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking you He responded cool, but told me out this how motherfuckers
All I really gotta say is If that's how our people gon' get down, how we 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 make a change