[...i think is Whatever, your mood or your feelings might be at the So as it's the truth... truth... truth...]
Verse
I could the vivid-est story About street homicide, and it sound gory you know, shit be happenin everyday And then on the weekends twice as much shit into play So I better my back or I might get caught up, in a fuckin war So I use the back door, cause the front safe Seven different got stuck and I don't wanna be the eighth make no sense Walkin my own neighborhood I feel tense Don't carry no gun Cause the be stoppin us, and pattin us down just for fun So, the only I got Is my smitties, but how kids get shot Fuckin that up your hands shit And fight like a man but he don't get to shit Not one punch, the hit Was when his head hit the concrete, got clean off his feet Got a lot of blood on shoes But they got rolex, and jumped in the cruise Late model sedan, either or black Was the description, no plates in the back I know one thing, they from around here But what would dare to come down here up shit, must be new jacks Trying to get a rep, better watch they backs *echoes*
[...they better watch backs *gets steadily louder*] [guess what happened to me I was wa-walk-wah-walkin down the street] They watch they backs!
Verse
my man shiloh, is out on the prowl With east medina, brothers that's foul Lookin to protect, the streets that our Have to walk on, from black young It's bad enough, if I walk through a white Neighborhood, that, I be prepared for a fight Why should I be of the dark? Scared on a that be lurkin in the park I be safe in a black neighborhood But someone's always up to no Niggaz ain't gonna make no progress Killin one another, but you know I I'm feelin thirsty, I'm goin to the If calls, I went to the store!
["walkin down the, down the, walkin down the block" -- scarface] ["walkin down the, walkin down the, down the block"]
Verse
Well quiet on the block tonight Everything is peaceful, I'm alright Yo there go dino, and little And yo that be, a stolen car I they see me, they puttin up the two Fingers meaning peace, then check they do Come pullin up in an deuce and Jump out the car and producin 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 in a black neighborhood... Why should I be of the dark? ["say fuck it put a cap in a nigga" -- ["this type of sh-shi-shit it eve-eve-everyday" -- slick rick]
I be safe in a black neighborhood (repeat 8x)