[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that there has been to be blood shed Over bread, men who have to death, dead to beds, bite bombs dynamite lead Money, power, respect, cred, yeah scary aint it? Picture yourself going out as a hero Picth a Mural, pictures of us painted all over corners Fans to mourn us, while we meet the coroners Notorious tried to us So piggy bank off of, Biggie's back and Pac's Landmarks, in rap, statistically in fact so sad to see us re-enact These tragic events, which lead us To where we left of March 9th to come from such hard knock And it out of the bottom to hit the spotlights the artist, this is our lives Cast out for all And he who lasts the longest must be the In concrete jungle Where this dog eat dog comes from This origin, which is usually originated from are starving Or it could be somebodys aura that just horrifies And applies to his or the sizes 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 ]
Since Big taught us niggas to big I'm been about my business then so it aint Cheers It aint how we live, what he said he did it for Brooklyn This I took in, sent chills my skin Vicious, experienced in the same sights as him It's what Obie to write these poems Rolling, going through the same he spoken Open up my eyes there's no in them skies Ready 2 Die was a sick part of my life Pummin that .45, plotting to pop my Then that crooked eye Jamaican, I'd so times Rewind Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my Get up out the system, who could him better signs? No pop of mine could top Big rhymes So possibly I'd be popular That's the I got from my nigga P.I
[ 3 ] [ P Diddy ]
I took a coal, a diamond, I moulded his mind, The phenomenal artist of any and all time I made a Frankenstein, my designs Backpackers and press who my house was a mess Critics lash, I made 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 Wallace This is a on Diddy's honor I'm a father to and teach ya with all the drama Don't even bother, or All of your albums play back to And I visit grave cause our friendships intact An ammaculate concept, progress Bullet wounds left in my heart, I'm yelling God Regardless to critics that 'east-west' I seen the game loosing, I'm pressing the reset When the ressurection of you through an individual Lyrical enough, doing the same crown of thorns pay homage, brooklyns finest Wether it's Queens or it'll be instant stardom, ni99a!