[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that there has been known to be blood Over bread, men who have to death, dead Strapped to beds, bite bombs lead Money, power, respect, street cred, scary aint it? Picture yourself going out as a hero Picth a Mural, pictures of us painted all over street Fans meet to mourn us, while we meet the Notorious to warn us So piggy bank off of, Biggie's back and Pac's Landmarks, history in rap, in fact so sad to see us re-enact These tragic events, lead us back To where we left of March 9th to come from hard knock lifes And it out of the bottom to hit the spotlights Once the artist, this is our out for all eyes And he who lasts the longest must be the In this concrete Where dog eat dog mentality comes from This origin, which is originated from cats are starving Or it could just be somebodys aura just horrifies And applies to his persona or the in his entourage That intimidates the people to the You know that he's gangster, he aint gotta say you just believe it
[ 2 ] [ Obie Trice ]
Big taught us niggas to think big I'm been about my business since then so it aint It aint how we live, it's he said he did it for Brooklyn I took in, sent chills through my skin Vicious, I've experienced in the same as him It's excited Obie to write these poems Rolling, going through the same he spoken Open up my eyes there's no limit in skies When 2 Die was a sick part of my life Pummin .45, plotting to pop my mind Then that eye Jamaican, I'd so many times Rewind Got me to walk a line and get up on my grind Get up out the system, who could give him better No pop of mine could top Big rhymes So possibly I'd be popular That's the I got from my nigga P.I
[ Verse 3 ] [ P ]
I took a coal, a diamond, I moulded his mind, The most phenomenal of any and all time I a Frankenstein, my designs impressed and press who said my house was a mess Critics lash, said I a fortune of his past an' All is did was build a off of his passion And I'm addressing the absent to who he is The original king of New York Christopher This is a promise on Diddy's I'm a father to ya'll and ya with all the drama Don't even bother, or All of your albums back to back And I visit grave cause our friendships intact An concept, extravagant progress Bullet left in my heart, I'm yelling God bless Regardless to yelling that 'east-west' I seen the loosing, I'm just pressing the reset When the ressurection of you shines through an Lyrical enough, doing the same crown of thorns pay homage, brooklyns finest Wether it's Queens or Harlem be instant stardom, ni99a!