New York streets where killers'll walk like Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, two squad cars entered the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world 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 white dude, his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced hearing is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I to crack a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, all we want is his freedom He a court officer's gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, a year that I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of car, that shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around them dudes, cool but they crazy Now I'm back around the old school raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay The say, "Nas I got your back, the fools don't play" I rolled with some down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, 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 Should of never tippy-toed, thought my were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet three See thought I had something 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 here this how
All I gotta say is that If that's how our gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever get up if that's how we get down? A shame when you ain't at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody make a change