[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that has been known to be blood shed Over bread, men who have to death, dead Strapped to beds, bite dynamite lead Money, power, respect, street cred, It's 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 tried to us So many bank off of, Biggie's back and Pac's Landmarks, in rap, statistically in fact so sad to see us re-enact These events, which lead us back To where we left of March 9th to from such hard knock lifes And make it out of the bottom to hit the Once the artist, this is our out for all eyes And he who the longest must be the strongest In concrete jungle Where this dog eat dog mentality from This origin, is usually originated from cats are starving Or it could just be somebodys aura that just And to his persona or the sizes in his entourage That the people to the point You know that he's gangster, he aint gotta say you just believe it
[ Verse 2 ] [ Trice ]
Since Big taught us to think big I'm been about my business since then so it Cheers It aint how we live, it's he said he did it for Brooklyn This I took in, sent chills through my Vicious, I've experienced in the sights as him It's what excited Obie to write these Rolling, going through the same shit he Open up my there's no limit in them skies When Ready 2 Die was a part of my life Pummin .45, plotting to pop my mind that crooked 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 Poppas So I'd be popular huh? That's the inspiration I got my nigga P.I
[ Verse 3 ] [ P ]
I a coal, a diamond, I moulded his mind, enter The most phenomenal artist of any and all I made a Frankenstein, my impressed Backpackers and press who said my was a mess Critics lash, said I made a fortune of his an' All is did was build a off of his passion And I'm addressing the adolesence to who he is The king of New York Christopher Wallace This is a on Diddy's honor I'm a to ya'll and teach ya with all the drama Don't even bother, or All of your albums play to back And I visit your grave our friendships intact An ammaculate concept, progress Bullet wounds left in my heart, I'm yelling God to critics yelling that 'east-west' I seen the game loosing, I'm pressing the reset When the ressurection of you shines an individual Lyrical enough, the same crown of thorns literally I'ma pay homage, finest Wether it's Queens or Harlem it'll be stardom, ni99a!