[...i underground is Whatever, your or your feelings might be at the time So as it's the truth... truth... truth...]
Verse
I could tell the story About homicide, and make it sound gory Cause you know, shit be everyday And then on the twice as much shit comes into play So I better my back or I might get caught up, in a fuckin war So I use the door, cause the front ain't safe Seven different brothers got stuck and I wanna be the eighth Don't make no through my own neighborhood I feel tense Don't wanna no gun Cause the cops be stoppin us, and pattin us down for fun So, the only I got Is my smitties, but how kids get shot Fuckin that throw up hands shit And fight like a man but he don't get to land Not one punch, the hit Was when his head hit the concrete, got knocked off his feet Got a lot of on they shoes But they got that rolex, and in the cruise Late model sedan, blue or black Was the only description, no in the back I know one thing, they ain't from around But what block would dare to come down up shit, must be new jacks Trying to get a rep, they better watch they *echoes*
[...they better they backs *gets steadily louder*] [guess what happened to me when I was wa-walk-wah-walkin down the better watch they backs!
Verse
my man shiloh, is out on the prowl With east medina, brothers that's foul Lookin to protect, the streets our mothers to walk on, from black young brothers It's bad enough, if I walk through a white Neighborhood, that, I be prepared for a fight Why should I be scared of the Scared on a brother that be in the park I be safe in a black neighborhood But someone's always up to no Niggaz ain't never gonna no progress one another, but you know I guess I'm thirsty, I'm goin to the store If calls, I went to the store!
["walkin down the, walkin down the, down the block" -- scarface] ["walkin down the, down the, walkin down the block"]
three:
Well it's quiet on the block Everything is peaceful, I'm alright Yo go dino, and little jamar And yo that must be, a car I think they see me, they up the two Fingers meaning peace, then what they do Come up in an eighty-three deuce and Jump out the car and start handguns, both of them got one Some kid in the backseat out a shotgun It can't be, but I it can That I know the kids in the sedan fire*
I oughta be safe in a neighborhood... Why should I be of the dark? ["say it put a cap in a nigga" -- scarface] ["this of sh-shi-shit it happens eve-eve-everyday" -- slick rick]
I be safe in a black neighborhood (repeat 8x)