New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince from Queens and from Harlem legends, the drugs kept the hood from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned well he me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones my ace get his case thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother the case jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to crack a when I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass they catch 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, a year that I won't forget Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, label, real killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game something Sold out the trunk 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 ain't slow, nigga to play me I left from around dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm around the old school 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 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 still alive in a Midnight they crept in his and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He plugged me with a dame who was Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy 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 moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the blow, wet three kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the I was with a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, him I ain't fucking with you He responded cool, but me out here this how motherfuckers
All I gotta say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we gon' get up? How we ever get up if that's how we get down? A when you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody gotta a change